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Food is not just a necessity for life, it enhances and enriches our lives. I love every aspect of food… not just eating it! I love cooking, and growing things, I love recipe books and cookery programmes, I love talking about food, reading restaurant menus… but most of all, sitting round a table in good company enjoying a wonderful meal!
This advertisement was in my mum’s copy of Mrs Beeton; I don’t know the date of the advert, if it was very much older than the book which my mum was given for Christmas in 1950. It is striking in many ways. First of all, the idea of captain Cook arriving at a place which is […]
More… and in today’s salad we have: mangetout peas parsley pineapple lettuce spinach tomatoes grapes cauliflower celery cucumber spinach purple sprouting broccoli yellow pepper courgette avocado and yea, strawberries!
MoreThis little cookery book is from the Scottish company of Brown and Polson, from Paisley in Renfrewshire. The company was formed in 1840 and two years later it started producing starch; starch was commonly used for stiffening fabrics, and in Paisley was a textile town. Silk was produced there initially but then the famous paisley patterned cashmere […]
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Lois Elsden 