It may come as scant comfort, but somewhere in the corner of a Suffolk field there roams a pig who is to die a martyr’s death.
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Gastronomy: Just leave the dirty dishes
Friday 20 April 2012
Humankind, T S Eliot said, cannot bear very much reality. When it comes to food, we've grown to love a style of photography that bears little relation to the products of our humble kitchens. It's called gastroporn.
Fresh mint relish
Sunday 08 April 2012
What can I say about bottle mint sauce? Sweet, vinegary, it's just horrendous. I can't believe anyone would want to put that on a lovely piece of meat. Forget it! Try this and you'll never look back.
Feast day: Mark Hix cooks alternative cuts of lamb for Easter lunch
Saturday 31 March 2012
Easter is a really good excuse to invite some friends over for lunch and get a bit of spring lamb on the go. But spring lamb doesn't exactly flood the market and unfortunately you can end up paying extortionate amounts for the prime cuts.
MasterChef lacked one ingredient: suspense
Friday 16 March 2012
You have to have a big appetite for superlatives if you're to consume an entire MasterChef final.
10 Greek Street, London W1
Saturday 10 March 2012
Ah Soho, such a shifting mixum-gatherum of grace and grot, such a protean hybrid of shabby and genteel. RL Stevenson in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (published in 1886) described a Soho street which contained "...a gin palace, a low French eating house, a shop for the retail of penny numbers and two penny salads, many ragged children huddled in the doorways, and women of many different nationalities passing out, key in hand" – and little has changed.
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