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Category Archives: Cutlery
on becoming Ken Dodd….and other recipes…
On taking stock of things, I never seem to have enough. More precisely, I never seem to have enough of the things of which I would like an excess. Money, hair and teeth would come high on the list although, … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Baking, Childhood, Cooking, Cream, Cutlery, Digital photography, Eggs, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, goat cheese, Humour, Illusion, Jam, Memory, Photographic Prints, Photography, photography course, Prints, Still life, tart, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged baking, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, dilletante, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, huntsmen, Ken Dodd, myopic, Ottolenghi, Photography, Photography course, Props, school reports, stylists, tutorial criticism, writing
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Eight bells and all’s well….not totally accurate on the bell count, but OK otherwise….
Another year has been added to the time that I have spent breathing the air of this world. I have reached a biblical point in the scribe’s view of our allotted time and so I am metaphorically putting fingers in … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Boiled eggs, Breakfast, Chicken, Chicken, Cooking, Cutlery, Digital photography, Eggs, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, Photography, photography course, Poultry, Sunday, Sunday breakfast, Sunday lunch, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged a leg and an arm, Birthdays, Bras, Breakfast, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, Diane Keaton, digital photography, Emmaus, Emmaus. Emmaus, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, Junk shops, Photography course, Portia, Pound of flesh, Shylock, Uma Thurman, woody Allen, writing
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I say tahmayto…and I would advise you to do the same…
It is well known that the tomato has a colourful history, filled with misunderstanding, suspicion and rumour. However, it has now not only found acceptance but has become so deeply ingrained in our food tradition that several highly seasoned purées of … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Cutlery, Digital photography, family, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Humour, Italian food, lifestyle, Meat, Mediterranean food, Olive oil, pasta, Photography, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, cooking, digital photography, food allergies, Food photographer, Goodfellas, Humour, J.Edgar Hoover, literature, Lysistrata, palate, Pasta Fazool, simple logic, The Sopranos, the tomato, tinned tomatoes, writing
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Beluga on dry toast saves me a fortune…
The fingerless gloves, so redolent of Dickensian misery, would be just the job today. They would be even more the job if they weren’t fingerless as it’s the tips of my fingers that turn to bloodless corpse white when the … Continue reading
Posted in Caviar, Cooking, Cutlery, Digital photography, Eggs, Fish eggs, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, Humour, Landscapes, Photography, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Beluga, Breakfast, Caviar, clear thinking, Cold, Dickens, digital photography, Economise, Egg on toast, electric heating, enigma machine, expense of heating, Fingerless gloves, food, Food photographer, food photographers, France, heating, Humour, outdoors, Photography, Saving money, simple logic, Toast, Warren Buffet, winter, writing
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Bottom draw, bottom line…
There’s an unfortunate link between “anally retentive” and “bottom draw”. Both suggest neatness, order and a dislike of “shit” all over the place. A place for everything and everything in its place. Nigel Slater, #realnigelslater, tweeted yesterday that a draw … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Cutlery, Digital photography, Excellence, Excess, family, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Health, Humour, hypocrisy, Illusion, lifestyle, Meat, Nigel Slater, photography course, Photography holiday, Shopping, Supermarkets, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Writing
Tagged Advertising, anally retentive, clear thinking, cookery books, cookery writers, cooking, digital photography, disorder, Enigma, enigma machine, farmers markets, food, fresh food, Gideon bible, Healthy eating, Humour, kitchen gadgets, kitchen utensils, kitchens, Lies, magazine editors, nigel slater, order, packaged food, processed food, Real food, Rich and poor, simple logic, social networking, Specious argument, Sunday Times, writing, yoghourt culture
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Don’t even think about it……
On my recent visit to London I came across a reference book which featured a handy guide for those who don’t know how to hold a knife and fork, two implements that are fast becoming expendable at the table as … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Cutlery, Humour, Uncategorized
Tagged arts, clear thinking, Cutlery, food, food photographers, France, Humour, Photography course, Table manners, writing
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Food, Photography & France 