I remember my mother telling me with some incredulity that she had a friend who read cookbooks in bed, as someone might read a novel. With four children to feed at the end of a hard day’s work, cooking was a necessity for her rather than a pleasure and she cooked French Regional Food[Read More]
Books
japanese farm food by Nancy Singleton Hachisu
In early 2011 I attended a foodblog conference in Cancun, Mexico. One of the attendees was Nancy Singleton Hachisu. She had flown in from rural Japan, Saitama, where she lives on an organic farm with her Japanese husband and three sons. Originally from Atherton, California, japanese farm food by Nancy Singleton Hachisu[Read More]
Absolutely Avocados, by Gaby Dalkin
I lived in California for the most part of the nineties, and now living in Provence, if asked whether there's anything I miss about living in L.A., I'd have to say avocados. Avocados are one of my favourite foods and it’s not that you can’t get them in Provence, they are in Absolutely Avocados, by Gaby Dalkin[Read More]
Sud de France, The food and cooking of Languedoc by Caroline Conran
Sud de France is my kind of cookbook. For a start, it is all about the food and culture of Provence. OK, it is in fact about the food of the Languedoc, but as Languedoc borders Provence just five minutes away from our house, over the Rhône River at the town of Beaucaire, it Sud de France, The food and cooking of Languedoc by Caroline Conran[Read More]
Yotam Ottolenghi comes to Bath
Since spending more time in the UK, The Artist and I have started a monthly 'mystery tour', where one of us organises something, without telling the other what it is. My 'tour' took us to an Italian restaurant, Guiseppe's Gourmet which is in the club house of The Bristol and Yotam Ottolenghi comes to Bath[Read More]
