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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!
A gentlewoman should always be able to carve well
Whether the passing fashion of the day exact it of her or not, a gentlewoman should always, for her own sake, be able to carve well and easily, the dishes which are placed on the table before her, that she may be competent to do the honours of a table at any time with propriety […]
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Aubergine… graffiti!
Isn’t this beautiful? It’s an aubergine, egg plant, brinjal, melongene, garden egg, guinea squash, melanzana… This variety is graffiti, and the photo is © Bari W. Sparshott
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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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Lois Elsden 