Memories of English Farmhouse Cuisine: Beyond England
Over many years in the kitchen, I have found three, and only three cookbooks that gave me a shock of recognition, only three that have evoked the cooking I knew…
Read moreFive Things I Learned at Texas Foodways
A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to attend the annual Texas Foodways conference, this time in San Antonio, a city I can’t wait to explore further. For…
Read moreIt’s the shear bloody work of it (sic). Grinding
Following on the previous post, the point is that banging, hitting, pounding, percussion does not produce flour out of grains (grape skins, chestnuts, bracken I shall leave for another post,…
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