There is something incredibly dreary about every supermarket ever known. As soon as you walk into one your heart sinks and you become a grumpy trolley shuffler, unless you're one of those crazy basket people that goes to the supermarket at 6am after a brisk jog (in which case you should go away and eat [...]
I admit it, I have a small problem. Cookbooks and cooking magazines have overflown out of the kitchen, out of the bookcases and all over the house. To make things even sillier, I don't often strictly follow a recipe. I love to tweak, adjust, be inspired. I often read them in bed, imagining flavours and [...]
The gift of taking joy in eating and cooking is one of the best things you can give a child. Encouraging the natural curiosity and urge to touch, smell and take pleasure in food is a gift that will be lifelong. The power and beauty in a healthy understanding of where food comes from and [...]
Before we go any further, spinach doesn't come in boxes. Green icy stuff in cardboard boxes is the stuff of childhood nightmares. Please leave it there. You need only the tiniest most minuscule skerrick of water to cook spinach. Rinse spinach well and dry the leaves in a half-assed fashion. The little bit of water [...]
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Beyond Beeton is a post-modern guide to household management inspired by Mrs Beeton’s 1861 Book of Household Management.
