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There’s something rather Escher-like about posting a blog about writing a blog but here we are nevertheless…

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For doubting you Nigel, I am so awfully sorry

Earlier this month Nigel Slater gave an interview to Radio 4′s arts programme Front Row to acknowledge the inclusion of his memoir Toast as one of those books to be given away for World Book Day.  As a little closing flourish John Wilson asked Nige for a single piece of culinary guidance.  Don’t cook something [...]

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The sound of pudding, board games, and an early start

The other evening we recorded the first of the new podcasts I mentioned. The little conceit arrived at in the end was that using a random number generator I found on the internet one of my many shelves of cookbooks would be selected, a tome chosen, and then from within its pages a recipe. The [...]

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Mastering the art of existentialism

The culinary talisman of 2009′s gastro-flick Julie and Julia is the heroic blogger’s making of a boeuf bourguignon.  From what I recall of the film, the first time she attempts this stew she drops it on the floor, and the second time she falls asleep and forgets to take it out of the oven.  This [...]

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Why don’t you sit between me and Barbara?

WHY INDEED? The term dinner party is so loaded with expectation that disappointment can’t help but appear on the menu, at least as an amuse bouche. Few people know how to do much more than boil an egg these days but we do all buy heaps of glossy cookbooks with close-ups of food which look [...]

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