New Year’s is a time when people resolve to take steps to improve their life. A common New Year’s resolution is to eat more healthily by following a new diet. In most cases, if it is a restrictive diet that focuses on eliminating certain foods, it can be difficult to maintain and might not…
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Whiskies for weddings
…and why not? A wedding is as good a time as any to drink whisky says whisky afficionado Rosemary Moon. I did not include whisky in the drinks suggestions in my book A Banquest on a Budget but I think maybe I should have done! “I recently read a wonderful piece by a fellow whisky advocate,…
Hebden Goat’s Cheese
Just heard a great story from Andy Swinscoe at The Courtyard Dairy in Settle about the creation of a traditional unpasteurised goats cheese on a farm in the Pennines near to Hebden Bridge. The cheese won Best Raw Milk Cheese at the Great Yorkshire Show. Gillian’s Story: Gillian Clough farms only ten acres (that’s just…
Extra virgin olive oil tasting day in London
Karen Cryan is a real olive oil enthusiast “There’s nothing like a good Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) and I tasted sixteen of them at Judy Ridgway’s olive oil tasting class held in London last year”. Here Karen describes her quest for olive oil knowledge and reviews one of my olive oil classes. “My zeal…
Weddings – The French Way
A wedding reception is one of most important events that you may want to cater for yourself. So after all the hard work of writing A Banquet on a Budget I thought it would be fun to ask my friend food writer and food stylist, Louise Pickford who lives in south west France with her…