One of my latest secondhand bookshop finds is this collection of twelve West African recipe cards by Barbara Baëta, published in 1972. I admit I was first drawn to the collection because of the wonderful retro graphics and bright orange sleeve, but the recipes sound pretty tasty too. It looks like the ingredients for theseContinue reading
The butcher has won me round. There is no way that I am going back to buying most of my meat at the supermarket. As I wrote about in this post, I’ve only been regularly shopping at my local butcher for about a month. So far I’ve tried chicken, lamb shoulder, pheasant and the chunkyContinue reading
I enjoyed the Rare Brands Market at Brighton Dome but I didn’t have any cash on me, otherwise I could quite easily have spunked a lot of money on meat pies and manuka-style honey. I went with some friends and while walking round the market two of us admitted to having started blogging. I can’tContinue reading