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Beyond River Cottage
Five years on from starting River Cottage, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall up-scales, buying himself a much larger farm and a second one that he converts into the River Cottage HQ – a field kitchen,...
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Why Not Eat Insects?
Why Not Eat Insects? is a 1885 book by Vincent M. Holt. Surprisingly enough, it is a book advocating the consumption of insects. And why not? They are nutritious, tasty and plentiful. He starts off by...
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TV Dinners is a show in which Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall investigating people’s dinner parties. Sort of. As far as I can tell, it seems to be a show where Hugh travels round the country making fun of...
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The Accidental Vegetarian
Simon Rimmer claims he bought a vegetarian cafe and then learned how to cook. Given how successful Greens has been, you have to wonder how true that is. However, with it being a cookbook, who really...
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500 Ways to Cook Vegetarian
Don’t get your hopes up, it isn’t 500 ways to cook a vegetarian. However, it is still pretty good. For a start, it has 500 recipes in. That is loads. Often such lists would just be identical dishes...
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30 Minute One Pot
We have a One Pot cookbook already and it’s reasonably good. At least in theory, when I use it it has been good, though I rarely do. This book is a much larger (size wise it is A4, though not long)...
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River Cottage Every Day
Hugh’s Veg Every Day! book is probably my favourite cookbook so far, so I was eager to see what River Cottage Every Day has to offer. It’s not as good, but still useful. Mostly I think it is just a...
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Thug Kitchen
Thug Kitchen is a cookbook with the subtitle “eat like you give a fuck”. It is also an organisation of the same name and comes with a quote from Jamie Oliver on the back. It is full of vegetarian...
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Pies
At Elina’s request, and because it sounded like a fun challenge, I have recently turned my hand to pie baking. It is an interesting journey, though they take a long time to make. If I have stuff to do...
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Peppercorn sauce
Many restaurants fail to make a good peppercorn sauce. You are served a watery gravy that looks like it might have been near a peppercorn once, perhaps long ago. I did not have a particularly good...
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Multi-course meals
For our New Year’s Eve murder mystery dinner party I planned a multi-course meal. To be exact I planned 11 courses. However, everyone was so full after the ninth course that we never made it to the...
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The Hairy Bikers’ Northern Exposure
The Hairy Bikers in Finland? We had to watch that, of course. We also watched the Swedish episodes for good measure. I had never seen The Hairy Bikers before I watched it. I have mixed feelings. At...
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Family Mother’s Day
How did my mum spend Mother’s Day this year? Mostly in the kitchen, cooking. What can I say, she is a Worfolk, you can’t make her relax. We had family visiting from Canada, so a family party was in...
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Nordic food
I like Nordic cooking. The reason is quite long. If Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s Scandimania and The Hairy Biker’s Northern Exposure are to be believed, there is something very exciting about Nordic...
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