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Spicy history
I finished Jack Turner’s Spice: The History of a Temptation yesterday. Overall, I really enjoyed it. It’s quite an idiosyncratic history, and deliberately so – writing about absolutely everything to do...
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I impress me
I just made Roasted Garlic and Goats’ Cheese Flan! Yay me! Why did I do it in the middle of the day? Because it’s the holidays, and I wanted to experiment, and when better to experiment than on a rainy...
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I lied
Dear Reader, I am sorry, but I lied. It wasn’t pannacotta, it was a sweet flan – I was mistaken. I do still indeed intend to try pannacotta, but this is what I was intending to make. There were some...
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Spongey
I have baked my first sponge! You can click that link to read my hubristic recount of the deed. And see a fairly average photo.
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Cooked, by Michael Pollan
This book was recommended to me by the sourdough baker whose course I took. It turned out that I had already one of Pollan’s books – The Botany of Desire, which was awesome and looked at various plants...
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The Missing Ingredient
I don’t remember how I came across this book – could have been through Gastropod? – but I thought it sounded like just my thing. Time as an ingredient makes a lot of sense, when you consider it! And...
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A Table for Friends
This book was sent to me by the publisher, Bloomsbury, at no cost. It’s out now; RRP $49.99. It feels an age since I reviewed a cookbook! And usually I like to actually cook from one before reviewing,...
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Bread & Water
I received this book to review via NetGalley. This is a set of essays, many published elsewhere previously, written by a woman who has been many things: a chef, a restaurant owner, a writer; mother,...
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Breadsong: How Baking Changed Our Lives
This book was sent to me by the publisher, Bloomsbury, at no cost. It’s out today (3 May 2022); $39.99. I actually finished reading the memoir part of this book a couple of weeks ago – the day I...
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The Year of Miracles (recipes about love + grief + growing things)
I was sent this book by the publisher, Bloomsbury, at no cost. It’s out now; $44.99. The memoir / cookbook genre is not one I knew I needed, but it turns out I do. When it’s done well, anyway. Looking...
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Bake, from Paul Hollywood
I received this from the publisher, Bloomsbury, at no cost. It’s out now; $52.00 for the (very lovely) hardcover. I’m not naturally a celebrity chef fan, and I was late to the Great British Bake-Off....
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River Cottage: Great Salads
I received this book from the publisher, Bloomsbury, at no cost. It’s out now. So I’ve had this book in my kitchen for a few months now, and I just… keep not getting around to reviewing it. Obviously....
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Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen, by Rebecca May Johnson
I read this via NetGalley, thanks to the publisher Pushkin Press. This book is incredible and thought-provoking and I loved it enormously. I sort of want to say this is a book that is “ostensibly”...
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