The Foody Traveller
For ages a friend living in Shoreham by Sea has been telling us about his local fish restaurant and saying how great it is – and what about meeting for lunch? So, the other weekend that is exactly what we did. Low tide at Shoreham It was low tide as we crossed the footbridge spanning the […]
We have to confess that we have no plans of following a vegan diet, and to the best of our knowledge neither has any member of the family. But that said – if we were, for whatever reason, contemplating becoming vegan we would certainly have this cookbook on our shelves. And we do have a […]
Cycling along forest tracks to the quintessentially English village of Minstead in the heart of the New Forest, Gillian Thomas was on a mini-mission. Why was the grave of Conan Doyle there in the churchyard of All Saints since he lived and died in Crowborough which is 99 miles away? She reckoned it was a […]
In a few weeks’ time when the swiss chard in our veg plot has grown a bit larger, we’ll be in the kitchen cooking Gonzalo Baró’s tasty looking Bean and Chard Stew, and for dessert his pears in red wine. We love Spanish food, and thanks to Spain’s splendid climate the country produces a wide […]
As children, visits to the aunts’ and great aunts’ for afternoon tea were received with gleeful anticipation. All the women were good cooks and the table would be almost invisible beneath the plates of sandwiches, scones and cakes. But we children, as children do, grew up and gradually the aunts and great aunts passed on, […]
Snowdrops are one of Anna Hyman’s favourite flowers, so when an invitation came from Hodsock Priory to visit and admire their spectacular snowdrop wood and gardens, she decided to head off to Nottinghamshire. Hodsock Priory’s famous snowdrops Hodsock Priory, just north of Worksop in North Nottinghamshire, is famed for its carpets of snowdrops in its […]