Thank goodness for blood oranges (because these grey skies are doing my head in)
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Some work news....
I am delighted to announce that I am now the Food Events Curator for the Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival. Inaugurated in 2017, the festival takes place every October and has grown in strength. Last year I was honoured to interview food writers Olia Hercules and Felicity Spector and witness
It's TΕusty Czwartek!
Happy TΕusty Czwartek ( Fat Thursday) to all who celebrate! Years ago, I wrote about this wonderful Polish holiday for OFM30, where every available bit of space in my local Polski sklep is covered in trays of fat doughnuts (PΔ czki). They're a traditional treat today, and the line at
On collecting-and reviewing-cookbooks
,February's food show on Suffolk Sounds Radio show was on the subject of cookbooks; how I decide which ones to add to my collection, and the criteria I use when choosing books for inclusion in my regular book roundups for this newsletter and my column for Suffolk News
A light in the darkness: JΓΌrgen Krauss's German Christmas Cookbook
, "The German word Vorfreude means 'joyful anticipation', and for some people, the pleasure of looking forward to Christmas begins on November 11th, St Martin's Day," writes JΓΌrgen Krauss in his newly published German Christmas Cookbook. When Krauss was small, he would parade through the