Although the snow that is currently 'whiting out' a good deal of the country should, in theory, be bright and full of light, it only really works when the sky is clear and the sun reflecting back the whiteness. For most of this week there has, instead, been a dirty grey blanket …
Recipes
Are cookbooks done for?….
A pre-Christmas survey of recipe reading habits shows an alarming move to abandon traditional cookery books in favour of..... laptops! Admittedly, the survey was carried out by a PC manufacturer, Lenovo, so they would say that, wouldn't they? But I fear that there may be more …
Bob Holness – broadcaster, coeliac – and coconut lover!
Fans of Blockbusters, Call my Bluff and Anything Goes (including two of my now 30-year-old nephews who were bowled over by the fact that I actually knew Bob) will all be mourning the sad loss of Bob Holness, who died yesterday. So do all us who worked on the hugely successful …
Becoming Truly Gluten Free
Despite a dose of Jury service and three months hard study, Micki Rose continues an endless flow on posts on the TrulyGlutenFree site. Her TGF diet must be working for her to be able to keep up such a work rate! Alerts about prawns (did you know that they can be fed on soya …
Clarissa Dickson Wright’s History of English Food
This is the book that I was setting out to write 25 years ago when I got side tracked into 'special diets' – but Clarissa has done it so much better than I could ever have done that I am really quite glad that I got distracted.... It is hard to pull such a huge canvas – a mere …