A Dinner Party Through Time. Late last year at the very beginning of November I was asked to cook for a dinner party and I was given the most fantastic brief. It was to be for 15 people and 7 courses, and a whistle-stop journey of British food through the ages. This is the kind of brief I absolutely love getting my teeth into.

Hotel room meal from a Finnish grocery store. These pure northern flavors do not much overlap with the much-touted Mediterranean diet of the more violent flavors of oregano, rosemary, and thyme, or the strong vegeta.

Wednesday, December 08, 2010. An early Christmas present from Celia at Purple Podded Peas. The most cheering sort of present . At my new blog, An English Kitchen. Thursday, October 14, 2010. We ate this with chunks of squash roasted with herbs and orange zest.

Things I like to grow, cook and eat. Friday, 25 March 2016. Saturday, 19 March 2016. And I decided to have a go at making it at home.

Thursday, April 12, 2018. 2011 The store closed in 2015. Thursday, April 12, 2018. Wednesday, April 11, 2018. De Blasio administration may ditch planned streetcar along Brooklyn-Queens waterfront. The Mayor denies it, and trashes the News. Federal aid may be sought for the project. E-bikes could soon get legal OK, mayor says. A History of Trash in.

It is many years since I had to count the cost of food, and I also have a very well equipped kitchen, built up over more than 30 years. If you are not a vegetarian, become a moderate meat eater.

On the last Sunday of the holiday we at last started to catch some mackerel. Before that there was a sail across to the other side of the bay. A line was dropped over the side of the boat and we had a bite just before we got to the other side but the fish managed to fight itself free before I could get it in the boat.

So you want to be a biology professor. Teach statistics the same way you teach baking a chocolate cake. The best chocolate cake! Undergraduates and a mentor! Emily and Julian at the Boston Public Library. But not one of them had clearly done their own statistical analyses on their own data. Why not? What is so hard about statistics? Why is statistics seen as the last thing they do rather than the first? I think it is because we have forgotten how to bake a cake.

Each morning the cuisinier must start again at zero, with nothing on the stove. That is what real cuisine is all about - Fernand Point. Sunday, 14 July 2013. I like to serve them with a buttermilk panna cotta. Tuesday, 9 July 2013. Monday, 27 December 2010. This makes a nice side dish, or can.

Thursday, 8 October 2015. Fear and Loathing of the Suburban Summer; and Oil Slick Lemonade. I have always maintained that people with my complexion were never intended to live in this sort of climate. Pathetic pale specimens such as myself ha.