Category Words & Pictures
Trout pout
I’m a fairly urban girl with an impractical wardrobe. So I wasn’t quite sure how I’d fare out in the wild at my first ever fly fishing lesson. Seeing as I don’t possess many sensible outdoor clothes, my first task was dig something out of the wardrobe in muted colours so as not to frighten […]
Beautiful bread
b If I was marooned on a desert island with a choice of one dish to eat until the end of my days, I would probably go for a crusty loaf of white bread with a pat of very salty butter. I would be content to eat this every day of my life. I am […]
Decaff coffee – too good to be true?
Sometimes just the tiniest amount of coffee can make me feel really jittery and quite moody. So, in recent months I’ve been experimenting with decaff. It’s not easy, since I love the smell and taste of coffee so much, and a lot of the decaff versions taste about as appetising as wet cement. I’ve even […]
Retro Food Lovin’
This is a feature I wrote for Channel 4 Food which never saw the light of day…*sigh*. So you can read it here instead: Retro food: so very right when you were young, so very wrong today… Think back to when you were about nine and you’d come home from games practice, all scuffed knees […]
Toast & Butter 