Articles about food and cooking from Emily Tellwright’s blog.
Regular readers of this blog will know that I am an admirer of the work of English author J. B. Priestley, now best known for his play An Inspector Calls. My enthusiasm for his writing was, as far as I remember, first ignited by the 1981 BBC adaptation of that very play. Those of us who live in the UK had the chance to see this for the first time in many years on BBC4 this week.… Read the whole post “An Inspector Calls, Integrity and Imaginary Cooking Friends”
Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, but having written about love at some length in my last post, I thought about food. Festivals and special days like Valentine’s Day are celebrated the world over by feasts of special dishes, and archaeology suggests that has been a feature human societies for a long time. In our house this year it will some wonderful cheese from The Courtyard Dairy, and Nigella’s Devil’s Food Cake.
There’s plenty of food and cooking in Ghost Train (“I skipped those bits,” said JB – my partner and fellow Castle Sefton Press author John Blake – who isn’t at all interested in culinary matters.)… Read the whole post “The Fawlty Towers Spanish Omelette”
It is once more the time of short, dark days, warm glows and twinkly lights, hearty meals and inward pleasures. Like Clyde in Ghost Train, I have prepared the dark, rich foods of the heart of winter: mincemeat, fruit cake and a round splodge of a Christmas pudding. The first mince pies, a delight enhanced by their long absence, have been baked and eaten, I have rooted out my plastic apron with the holly pattern, and the artwork for this year’s Christmas cards is completed.… Read the whole post “What Will You Carry Through to the New Year?”