As I type this a loaf of sourdough bread is crackling cheerfully at me. I think it’s the crust settling down as it sheds heat and the loaf’s insides stop trying to shove their way out into my kitchen. A baking loaf is a slow-moving explosion of flour, water and gas and the cooling period…
While part of me knows that the point in our planet’s orbit around the sun that we have decided marks a new year is pretty arbitrary, midnight on December 31st still means something to me. There’s something enticing about a blank slate, a new opportunity. While I’m not big on the idea of new year’s…
Welcome to Yorkshire Grub! I’ve been working on this project for a little while and it’s great to have something to show you all. Yorkshire Grub is, if I encounter you in an elevator, ‘a growing collection of traditional Yorkshire recipes for the 21st century.’ Over the years traditional English food has fallen to the…
