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There’s No Such Thing as Free Beer (or Pudding)

Pub landlords; they’re a rum bunch aren’t they.  If they weren’t I doubt Al Murray would have been able to make a career out of sending them up. Well I had one of those Al Murray moments, a couple of … Continue reading

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Apple and Green Tomato Chutney

One of my favourite old Sussex terms is ‘brencheese friend.’  A brencheese or ‘bread and cheese friend’ is a friend who’ll stick with you whether you feed him a feast or share with him your simplest provisions.  Likewise a true … Continue reading

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Bagpuss Pudding

If you get it into your head that cooking is difficult then it will be.  Of course if you’ve bought yourself a copy of the Roux Brothers on Patisserie and don’t just want to gaze at the pictures then it … Continue reading

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Champignons de Paris a la Moutarde

Thirty years ago Cranks was synonymous with vegetarianism.  Its restaurants and cookbooks offered wholesomeness in its every permutation – wholemeal, organic, healthy. These days I tend to like my food simple – good ingredients, minimal fuss. I went through a … Continue reading

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Hot Cross Buns

I’ve given up cake for Lent.  It’s not a gesture of piety.  It’s 100%, fully certifiable insanity.  Not just cake either but all sugary things – biscuits, chocolate, sweets, even jam on my toast. My friend Percy Pyckwyll, being rather … Continue reading

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On Being Paddington

Apologies.  I’ve been thrown off course by arguments with various national newspapers over their unauthorised used of my photographs.  What I really wanted to talk about was marmalade. It’s a January and February ritual in the Kent household.  As a … Continue reading

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