My parents have been married for 60 years. We celebrated with a beach picnic in Provence. Read and feast…
Food
How to do Salad Dressing- 7 rules and 4 recipes
When it comes to salads, if I'm brutally honest, I could just eat the dressing and not bother with the salad. I can, and indeed I have, drink the leftover dressing at the end of the salad, made even ...
La Baleine sea salt
'We are probably the first generation since the beginning of the world to be paranoid about salt'. We would all die without salt. It is the only mineral we eat straight out of the ground', says ...
Cherry ice cream recipe
Although you can use any cherry, sweet or sour, for this recipe, I used Picota cherries for this gelato ice cream recipe. Hurry! The Picota season finishes in about ten days. Since discovering ...
Oxford Food Symposium 2019
Harold McGeeMenu designed by Jake Tilson I've been wanting to attend the Oxford Food Symposium for the last decade, since several symposiasts came to my supper club just prior to the 2009 ...
Travel
Timber festival 2019
Timber is a new festival, only in its second year, run by the National Forest, based in the Midlands, near the exotically named Ashby-De-La-Zouch. I'm into the Japanese concept of 'forest bathing' and ...
Picota cherry season in Spain plus a recipe for cherry gazpacho
The Picota cherry comes from the Jerté valley, in Extremadura, Spain after being introduced by Arab farmers in the 14th century. Earlier this year I went to visit the valley in a cloud of snowy ...
An interview with Felicity Cloake
As the author of the weekly Guardian column 'How to make the perfect...' Felicity Cloake, at a mere 36 years old, is fast reaching national treasure status. Fair-skinned with laughing eyes, originally ...
Summer in the Alps, Val Gardena plus recipe for apple fritters
I'm usually more of a beach person in the summer. But having visited the Dolomites in southern Italy only a couple of weeks ago, I was keen to visit the northern end of the range up up towards the ...
MsMarmiteLover aka Kerstin Rodgers.
Chef, photographer, author, journalist, blogger. Pioneer of the supperclub movement.
This is my food and travel blog, with recipes, reviews and travel stories. I also stray into politics, feminism, gardening.