Language evolves, nouns turn to verbs. Recent Olympics have given us to medal, now from Covid we have to bubble. Not as in sparkling wine or simmering stock, but to enter a bubble. Even before the great easing of 4 July, and the free-for-all as sure as eggs is eggs to precede it, we were…Continue reading The Joy of Bubbling
Category: Thoughts on Food
Thoughts on Festive Food
In the midst of the onslaught of cooking that accompanies Christmas, I have been pondering why many of us seem so fixed on offering a static, unchanging menu – whether just the main event or a sequence of meals over a few days – despite the inducements of magazines, newspapers and TV shows. And why,…Continue reading Thoughts on Festive Food