In the early 1970s, I was fresh out of catering college in Chichester, West Sussex, and was managing (with a bit of cheffing) a restaurant in Battersea Park Road in London. It was a French restaurant called La Grenouille, famous for introducing Le Cassoulet, Confit of Goose and Duck (proper ‘confit’ – preserve – not…
My mother had a spirited imagination. Her claims of people she knew and were her antecedents bore scepticism. Her stories of dancing with Augustus John at the Pheasantry in the Kings Road, being part of the Bloomsbury Group, going on a date with Edward Heath and being given a ring by the American author Philip…
I cannot blame my Dyslexia if my books are not very good. I was very surprised to learn that latter-day writers such as Agatha Christy, Lewis Carrol, Edgar Alan Poe and Jules Verne were apparently likely to be Dyslexic, and Jules Verne and some other notable Dyslexic writers were thought to have ADHD as well….
I know this is nothing to do with my new book, Girl on a Golden Pillow– but we have just retired from running a top-notch B&B for the past twenty years, and I trained as a chef in the 70’s. So my question is; what is happening to poached eggs lately? Who first put the…
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