Archive for January, 2007
Celebrity Recipe Books - who writes them?
Just a quickie link to an article in today’s Times - a look at who actually writes the recipes in the ever expanding mass of celebrity cookbooks.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-2545186,00.html
Updated with correct link.
In Search Of… The Perfect Pork Pie
Made from pure-bred and hand-reared pigs the pies available from the Perfect Pork Pie have been receiving rave reviews.
Apparently the Norfolk farm where they are made has two sows each capable of producing 40 piglets a year. This in turn makes about 700 pies each. Each 6oz pie costs £2.40 each with postage set […]
Hall and Woodhouse Recipe Cards
Dorset brewer Hall and Woodhouse have released, via their website, a third set of recipe cards.
These, of course, utilise one of other of their beers but at the same time champion the best of local Dorset produce. Each comes complete with details of energy, protein, carb, fat etc etc.
The latest batch includes such scrummy […]
The End of Beefy and Lamby?
Did you even realise that the government even ran 551 websites; let alone that this is the number they are thinking of closing!
One slated to go is Beefyandlamby.co.uk. I had always assumed the TV ads using the same characters (voiced by England cricketers Ian Botham and Allan Lamb) were paid for by some meat-marketing […]
Fresh Magazine Closed
Looks like one of the UK’s glossy food magazines has closed.
Comments on my latest review of Fresh over on Paper Palate initially questioned why it hadn’t appeared on the news-stands recently. The latest comment suggests closure -
I was just looking at their website trying to find out why i can’t get it anymore. […]