From Alsace to Yorkshire by Lionel Strub - A Review and a recipe for Brioche

Another review. Get me. This is another book which is more than just a recipe book. Before we get to the food, it tells the story of the har...

Pure Vanilla by Shauna Sever - A Review

Pure Vanilla. More than just a recipe book, this celebrates the heritage and flavour of vanilla, with an interesting history of the vanilla ...

Where Food meets Fiction "The School of Essential Ingredients" - and White Cake

Looking back from this dreary October evening, as the rain lashes down outside, and I can barely face heading down the garden to shut the c...

My 'Summer' Reading List

When I was much younger than I am now I was tortured interviewed for 2 days to be selected onto a civil service training programme. This con...

Still grumpy, even with the prospect of sunken cake for breakfast

I am in a bad mood. The Husband has gone to California on business and I have felt increasingly out of sorts all day. Tired (he got up at 5....

A damn good read

Does anyone remember the film ‘Malice’? It had Nicole Kidman and Alec Baldwin in it, I think, and they weren’t very nice in it, but I can’t ...

Lara's Christmas Book Review

I apologize for posting something completely unrelated to food here, but after spending the time compiling this Christmas book review (somet...