Food

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!

Food by Lois

Apricots, cherries, currants and berries, plums and gages and melon

apricots white cherries, black cherries white currents black currents, red currents melon strawberries, raspberries black diamond plums greengages, Victoria plums Mrs Beeton’s 1912 edition had colour and black and white plates; this selection of fruit is rather charming, but I can’t find out who the illustrator was. I hadn’t heard of black diamond plums, but […]

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Food by Lois

Snow Capped Mountains

I’m not exactly sure when the traditional pattern was set for British dining, with a starter, a main and a dessert… certainly even in lees well-off families having  soup with bread before the main meal – a soup which could be made from scraps or leftovers or the cheapest and most available vegetables, would fill the […]

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