Crumpets and Sulking

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Crumpets should be made on a cloudy day. On a morning when you don’t have anywhere to be, and you don’t much feel like being anywhere, anyhow. They should be made when you are feeling sulky and broody and just need to wallow in your own pot of misery for a while. Because sometimes we [...]

Rhubarb Eton Mess

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England has a bad reputation for two things. Can you guess? I’m sure you can. The first would be its weather, by which I can more specifically say, the rain. The second, its food – for which there is no specific: all of it, according to most, is bad.  England is a rainy miserable country [...]

Bits and Bobs

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First of all, thank you. I mean it. For your tremendously encouraging response to my emotional cookbook idea. I am still working away on the proposal and I hope to share a little bit more with you soon. And by all means, if you have any particular associations between a specific food and emotional state  - where [...]