I am not sure why I bought a tin of Campbell’s Condensed Cream Of Mushroom Sauce a few months ago. Perhaps it was on special. Perhaps it was for the design. It was unlikely to be for the soup. Maybe it was the “Base of 1000 Meal’s&#[…]

So I’m off to Bispham Green’s magnificent Eagle and Child for tea this evening. Now this is a pretty old-skool pub, what with big flagstones, low head cracking beams and a troll lurking down the end of the bowling green for all I know (a[…]

the “oldest prepared food found intact”[…]

The Head of Steam is a strange old place. Part of the concrete Euston complex built controversially in the 60s (John Betjeman famously campaigned against the demolition of the previous, Victorian, Euston station, and particularly its large Doric arch[…]

Last night I made one of the most accomplished meals of my life. And it wasn’t the Aubergine Parmageana, or the Curried Parsnip Soup that made me feel this was a great meal, though those items were fabulous. Those items also came from recipes a[…]

I hadn’t been to a Pizza Express in years. How the mighty fall, me having moved on to the larger joys of La Porchetta or the almost identical, but nicer staffed Pizza Paradiso. But where else to eat on Millbank? And they are celebrating their f[…]

Mum’s packed lunch left rather a lot to be desired. On the journey down to my folks’ place in the south of France, she served up a picnic of browning iceberg, bendy carrots and hard-boiled eggs with yolks the colour of pumice (“I forgot they we[…]

In a story that needs follow up from a Man with Chest Hair in Manchester, Glass is being banned from licensed premises in Glasgow. Its a three stage process, ending in pubs, who may be allowed to us shatterproof, toughened glass. But clubs have got t[…]

What trip to furren would be complete without a comedy food item?[…]

i could look this up or ask but it is more fun to explore it as an EXPERIMENT viz which bacon does WHAT? bacon is sold in all different permutations — back bacon, unsmoked bacon etc — and i realised this week i have never bothered working[…]