I am not sure how I came to be subscribed to a newsletter from The Resource Centre for Development Alternatives in Pakistan – but I am and I receive a fairly regular stream of emails which can cover anything from concerns over electromagnetic radiation or farmer suicides in the …
Recipes
Scotland the Bread – urgent support needed!!
OK, you Scots!! You are very much in the news these days so step up and support this excellent project to help local communities bring wholesome bread within everyone's reach. Anyone who is remotely interested in good bread has heard of Andrew Whitley – craft baking pioneer, …
Farewell to the lovely Marguerite Patten
Very few people are still around who would remember Marguerite's wartime Kitchen Front recipes programme's but that was only the start of an extremely long career in cookery which really only ended four years ago when, at the ripe old age of 95 she had a serious stroke. I got …
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 …
Egg wash!! How many allergens should you exclude?
I had scarcely pressed the 'go live' key on my last blog about allergen-free catering when the following email plopped into my in-box: Good morning Michelle, I am hoping that I can persuade you to help me in my battle to encourage chefs to stop putting eggs either in or …