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There is really a je ne sais quoi about turkey cooking - the air of festivity, the family squabbles, the constant basting - that does not apply to... →
The sharing of food is the basis of social life.
The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is... →
We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.
We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect... →
Provision as much pure and organic food as you can, and let the rest go by.
The fact is that modern life has deprived us of life's one great luxury: time.
One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking... →
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of... →
When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed.
I come from a coffee-loving family, and you can always tell when my sister and I have been around, because both of us collect all the dead coffee... →
Certainly, cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.
Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by practicing, and some learn from books.
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