Radio 4's The Reunion addicts will no doubt have logged in last week and heard the pre-telly chef greats talking about food back in the dark days of the 1960s and 70s. But if you missed it and have even a passing interest in food, it is worth a listen. Claudia Roden's …
Guild of Food Writers
EATING IN KWAMAHSU – Winner of the Guild of Food Writers’ Young Writer of the Year award
Although in years gone by I was an active member of the Guild of Food Writers I am afraid that these days 'freefrom' food has rather taken over from all those other kinds of food and I rarely do more than skim the monthly newsletter. But, meanwhile, the Guild has gone from …
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 …
Cookery curiosities at the Guildhall
Courtesy of the Guild of Food Writers, I took a lovely trip down Memory Lane last night. Actually, both down my own personal lane and down through the history of English cookbooks. The occasion was a talk by Peter Ross, Principal Librarian at the Guildhall Library in charge of …
Coeliac/gluten-free tweetup…. 2nd June 8–9pm
Those readers who 'tweet' will know exactly what I mean – to those who don't, apologies! A 'tweetup' is a get-together on Twitter – you all sit round your computers or your mobiles for an hour and 'chat' on Twitter – a formula that is now common in many online guises. You …