Simply Fed – a new book by Roger Stowell – this book is now available from BLURB.com in iPad/iPhone version for 5,49€
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“Eating at La Moussiere” – iPad/iPhone version 3,99€ from Blurb.com
Monthly Archives: March 2012
La recherche du pain perdu or memories of idyllic petits dejs….
Croissants are iconic. They say France and they invoke the smell of coffee and the taste of apricot jam in whichever setting of that extraordinary country to which you have been transported by your imagination – blue seas, peaceful mountains … Continue reading
Forbidden fruit followed by bangers and mash…
It is hard to assess the wisdom of the proverb which counsels never looking a gift horse in the mouth as many a gift horse would benefit from a good buccal inspection. The concept is that we should be grateful … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Cream, Digital photography, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, grapes, Mashed potatoes, Methanol, Noa grape, Othello grape, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Recipes, Vendee, Wine, Writing
Tagged gift horse in the mouth, potato ricer, store cupboard
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Say cheese….
Sometimes a picture taken quickly, for no reason other than the colours look wonderful, feels right. This is one of three frames taken at the end of dinner of a piece of old Gouda with a blue knife that was … Continue reading
Posted in Cheese, Digital photography, Food and Photography, Food photographer, harmony, Mary Cadogan, Wine, Writing
Tagged colours, food, gouda, red wine
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The bar that Zagat forgot to visit….
This is the nearest bar to our house which, I should mention, is a very, very, very fine house with two cats in the yard, life…I have to confess that the cats have been dead for a couple of years … Continue reading
At last, a cookery book for the working classes….
We live in a time when soon, to be working class, will be a state to which we will aspire. The carefully crafted plans of elected, and unelected, politicians and economists across the globe are managing daily to reduce the … Continue reading
Posted in BBQ, Cooking, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Francatelli, Meat, offal, photography course, Photography holiday, Pork, Writing
Tagged coke dealers, cookery book, hrh queen, politics, queen victoria
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Pump up the contrast..
My journeys around our little corner of France reveal that progress has been slow and hard won, although I’m not sure if won is the apposite word. Improvement is often not in the gift of winning. Winning can equally mean progress and … Continue reading
The long and, apparently, hardly winding road….
A straight and level road is as unusual in life as it is in tarmacadam. It may appear that way but there will always be little unexpected dips, twists and turns for which we can never be fully prepared. We … Continue reading
Lady Sysonby’s Lover…
“Lady Sysonby’s Cook Book may prove a life belt for the valiant young wives of today who are doing their own cooking and remember, despairingly, the dinner parties, cooks and kitchen maids of their pampered parents.” With these stirring words … Continue reading
Swing low, sweet chariot….
Apart from beating the Frenchies on their home ground on Sunday, which was pretty sweet, there were a couple of other sweet moments at the Sunday lunch table. A less sweet moment was realising that the beef, which rarely graces … Continue reading
Brown soup in the ring, da di da di da…
Unusually for a photographer I very much like cookery books without photographs. Photographs of food can be very misleading in that the reader may assume that the image on the page reflects the recipe writer’s view of the intended appearance … Continue reading
