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About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Science
Occupation	Sensory Assessor
Location	Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Introduction	Chocolate taster by day, food blogger by night. Eater of all things. Cooks with great heart but little skill. Peach Jam is where I document the trials and tribulations of teaching myself to cook, and The Budget Gastronomer offers to the point reviews for restaurants people can actually afford.
Interests	Writing, reading, cooking, restaurants, travel, family, friends, music, horse riding, people, poetry, tea, flowers, baking, Christmas, living beyond my means, arty-crafty anything, beaches, fields, pubs, cafes, old and dusty books, pudding.
Favorite Movies	Sweeney Todd, Girl Interrupted, Moulin Rogue, Seven, Silence of the Lambs, Pirates of the Carribean, Little Miss Sunshine, Fight Club, Dead Poets Society, The Notebook, The Prestige, Amelie, The Bucket List, Taken, In Bruges, Notes on a Scandal, The Hangover.
Favorite Music	A Girl Called Eddy, Alela Diane, Amy Winehouse, Anna Nalick, Ani Difranco, Annie Lennox, Ash, Badly Drawn Boy, Beck, Beth Orton, Billy Talent, Bob Dylan Boxcar Racer, Bruce Springsteen, Cat Power, Coheed and Cambria, Counting Crows, Damien Marley, David Grey, The Distillers, The Eels, Erykah Badu, Everything But The Girl, Feist, Glassjaw, Goo Goo Dolls, Green Day, Hole, Imogen Heap, Incubus, Jeff Buckley, Joan Jett, John Butler Trio, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell, K D Lang, Kate Nash, Katy Rose, Kings of Leon, Kooks, KT Tunstall, Laura Marling, Laura Sweden, Lauryn Hill, Leonard Cohen, Lucky Jim, Martha Wainwright, Mary Black, Mentaporta, Moby, Morcheeba, The Movielife, Natalie Merchant, Neil Young, Nina Simone, Nirvana, Paul Simon, A Perfect Circle, Placebo, Portishead, Queen Adreena, REM, The Ramones, Ray Charles, Ray LaMontagne, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Refused, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Sam Baker, Santana, Saul Williams, Seal, The Shizit, The Sex Pistols, Sinead O'Conner, Silverchair, Sonic Youth, Suzanne Vega, Three Doors Down, The Thrills, Tilly and the Wall, Tom Waits, Tool, The Used, Van Morrison, The White Stripes and Wolfshiem.
Favorite Books	Any Milan Kundera, Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers, The Book Thief, Playing Sardines, The Bell Jar, On the Road, Chocolat, The Lollipop Shoes, Moab is my Washpot, 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth, recipe books with pictures. Jilly Cooper is my dirty little secret.