Listening to the Radio 4 Food Programme Podcast a few weeks ago I was enthralled by the economics of durum wheat and pasta. Seems there is a shortage right now and the main pasta manufacturers have cornered the market. You need a dry hot climate to grow durum so we... A guy I used to share an office with in London used to go bonkers when John Lewis opened up the Christmas department. Bonkers in an excited child way. He’d have the date in his diary and then take long lunches to coo over tinsel, baubles and other Christmas... There is something of a culinary power struggle developing in our household. Like a true gentleman, MT stepped up to weekend catering duties some time ago. This means that I get a couple of days off cooking meals and he gets to flex his chef muscles without... Sometimes keeping a blog seems like a Marathon run. You need to keep going whatever the pain and push yourself over the line. The changing seasons, longer days and ever growing list of things to do means that blogging slips down the priority list and I struggle... Growing your own is heralded as cheap and easy. I beg to differ. I have not fully costed all the seeds, compost and other paraphernalia but cheap is not a word I’d use. Neither is easy. You have to have your wits about you, pay close attention to detail... 