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Oak bowl by Robert Thompson The 'Mouseman" of Kilburn It's not difficult to buy cheese in London.  It's not diffic...

A Warm Salad of Broad Beans I'm writing about salad.  Risky, I know.  Who needs to be told how to make a salad?  But I like to c...

Lemon Cake sliced We all need no-nonsense cake recipes.  The sponge cake recipe that always rises to the top of the tin; the perfectly...

Silver Birch in January Barcelona We have "polar air" insists every swaddled Barcelonian we speak to.  It's mid-Januar...

Pole position Books There was a time when if you wanted a good choice of books on the subject of food you sought out a specialist book...