It’s a gardening term, isn’t it? You dig a trench, and move the soil back into it. In this case, with Christmas around the virtual furrow, it’s time to back fill some more stories onto the blog, so that there’s something there for people to read when you eventually send them their Yuletide email. Last …
Category archives: Food
Pre-dressed salad and other social ills
Social ill is a bit harsh. But it’s interesting going out for a meal in another country – particularly a European country, given the ongoing belief in the UK that we still eat worse than our European counterparts – and think you could have done better at home. Targets on the list? France is rather …
Fantasy online dinners
I’ve come to realise that the way to get people’s attention online (or at least on Facebook) is to write about food. Mention your latest eating experience – or even, your anticipation of that – and you get lots of virtual joining in. Is it the dark days of recession affecting us? We know that …
Food miles?
Off to Peebles last weekend to see my parents – and go to part of Peebles’ second ever autumn food fair. Not quite the highlight of the social calendar that the spring book fair is, but a good enough excuse to go and support a local event. What I hadn’t quite bargained on was that …
Black gold
Sometimes it seems I’m at my happiest when heading from A to B, with space to think up titles for blog posts, or the like. After much deliberation for this one, I settled on black gold. Would it be a hard-hitting commentary on oil over-dependence? Not really. An oblique Asterix book reference? Closer territory, though …