So, our mini European marathon is nearly over… I am currently sitting in the fast train from Amsterdam to Brussels – hoping that it will make a better job of getting me to my destination than the local train I had booked to get me from Brussels to Amsterdam. (For anyone’s …
Food
Do/Sourdough – with Andrew Whitley
Don't those loaves look divine? Can you not just smell that wonderful fresh bread aroma floating out of your screen? And they taste just as good as they look – because these are Andrew Whitley's sourdough loaves. No, not the supposed sourdough loaves that you can buy in every …
Butchery…
I have just come back from the most splendid morning propped in a corner watching five butchers exercise their skills. And no, I was not judging some 'freefrom' butchery competition. In fact I was being interviewed about Victorian butchers for the BBC 1 Heir Hunters programme – a …
Allergen-free catering – really quite simple once you put your mind to it…
I have spent much of the last week working on the entry forms for the FreeFrom Eating Out Awards which open at the end of this month – and it has really focused my mind on exactly what is involved for an eating-out establishment in going 'freefrom'. But while, at first glance, …
The horrors of foie gras
I have not eaten foie gras for years. Not that I am claiming any great virtue in that - I never really liked the taste and once I seen a few pictures of force fed geese any appeal that it ever had vanished. And I had sort of thought, in my ignorance, that most other poeple had …