The Voluptuous Manifesto

The last few weeks have been a tad bonkers on the work front – hence the paucity of posts – but the cooking and eating have been maintained ...

The latest Christmas advert from Waitrose features Heston Blumenthal as a Harry Potteresque magician, creating his pine-scented mince pies ...

As I mentioned the other day, I was quite ready to cheat a little on my first attempt to make pie. It was only on reading the ingredients o...

It’s getting to that time of year when people start considering gifts – gifts to buy for others; gifts they’d like themselves. And of cours...

Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye,
 Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.
 When the pie was opened the birds began to sing,
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What feels like a very long time ago, I happened to start a sort of research on this blog – and as it started to gain a bit of momentum, I ...

After British Food Fortnight, British Cheese Week and Chocolate Week comes British Sausage Week – for which piece of information I have the...