Category Words & Pictures
Festive greetings!
I couldn’t resist sharing this image with you from the old Fail Dogs website: Are the dogs about to share an iced Pedigree Chum? I think my favourite one is the podgy golden laborador looking puzzled, his fat head jammed into his green cornet hat. Durrrrr. Anyway, hope this brings a smile to your face. […]
Retro Britain: Harry Tuffins supermarket
I love this country, especially when I feel as though I am being sucked into a timewarp, being the retro enthusiast that I am. On my recent travels, I was constantly reminded how the 1970’s – or the 1950’s for that matter – are all around us in certain parts of this splendid isle. […]
Feast your eyes 2
So many photos of gluttonous moments, so little time to write about them all properly – so feast your eyes on this lot: The best ‘pan con tomate’ I have ever eaten, at London’s Barrafina tapas restaurant in Soho. Had anyone attempted to share this with me, I might have stabbed them with a fork: […]
Ghoulish Halloween food
Halloween is a great time to eat some really wacky food. At my friend P’s fancy dress party at the weekend, the food did a bit of dressing up too. R made a delicious pair of carrot cakes and decorated them with an assortment of paper parasols, a vintage toy car, a Spanish flamenco doll […]
The Cheese Box, Whitstable
A few years ago, the cheese-starved inhabitants of Crystal Palace, South London, only had a dismal branch of Morrisons in which to buy their fromages. It was a sorry state of affairs – anaemic cheddar and Edam, and not a lot else besides, sold under fluorescent strip lights. But then, lo! Rescue came in the […]
Wild Man: foraging with Fergus Drennan
When the end of civilisation is nigh and we are all scrambling over each other to get the last tin of beans in Sainsbury’s, forced to scavenge rubbish out of bins and inevitably turning into crazed zombies, the one man who will outlive anyone (at least in Kent) will be Fergus Drennan, wild food forager […]
Cook like it’s 1899
What in this day of uber-connected internet-obsessed fast-paced living, clearly what was required by my friends and I to calm down a little was a weekend living as one would have done in the Victorian era. Forsooth! With nary a network signal or electric plug in sight, we spent two days in a picturesque […]
The Great British Waste Menu
If you care at all about what’s on your plate and feel that we waste too much food in this country, I am seriously nagging you to watch ‘The Great British Waste Menu‘ on the BBC iPlayer. It’s essential viewing, illustrating the scary fact that one fifth of all food in the UK ends up […]
Choc Air flies back to Wales!
If you happened to be at last weekend’s Green Man music festival mucking around in the Welsh mud, you might have purchased a delicious chocolate brownie from a lady dressed up as a retro-style 1980s air hostess. She was glowing with very orange fake tan and frosted eye makeup, and carried an usherette box and […]
The legendary Paula Deen
Image courtesy of Good Housekeeping Oh mah gawd, girl-freyends. Have you seen the rootin’ tootin’ Texan version of The Two Fat Ladies? Paula Deen is actually just one fat laydee from the deep South, and she is possibly responsible for the obesity epidemic over the pond, y’all. She wraps cheesecake in pastry, deep fries it, […]
Toast & Butter 