Two ‘classic dishes!’ – Both with the initials ‘BB’
Posted on Saturday 24th May, 2025
As I’m French, you may understand why I’m going to ramble on about an iconic French actress of the 1950s and 1960s, Brigitte Bardot: But then what has this got
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‘Cooking the books’ – Hamish’s Hipster Porridge!
Posted on Monday 5th May, 2025
In May 2020, while in lockdown, Scottish crime writer Val McDermid launched a series of cooking videos playfully entitled ‘Cooking the books’. In her fully equipped ‘fiction kitchen’, Val McDermid,
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Trattoria at Porto d’Ischia
Posted on Wednesday 23rd April, 2025
In 1953, one year before Elizabeth David published ‘Italian Food’, the Irish writer and novelist Sean 0′ Faolain was travelling in Sicily and wrote this account of his experience of
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Elizabeth David – The Writer
Posted on Friday 10th January, 2025
Mention the name ‘Elizabeth David’ and many people, of a certain generation, will immediately think of a woman who was an inspirational cook during the second half of the twentieth
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Elizabeth David and George Orwell
Posted on Friday 20th December, 2024
Elizabeth David and George Orwell are not writers one usually associates with each other; they came from quite different backgrounds, they had very different lives and there was little if
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