The Happy Cook €:^)
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Food Writer, Caterer, Food Educator, Stockist and locator of unusual foods and cooking gizmo's! |
| Location | Ferring, Worthing, West Sussex, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I adore good, healthy food, well made, with good ingredients and at as low a price as can be. I use as much home-grown, organic, natural, wild & local seasonal produce as I can, but there are so many things that are best left to the experts or simply impossible to make. The point is, just because it came from a can or jar, it isn't necessarily bad. Food has always been preserved & traded, the modern era means that the quality, consistency and prices are better than ever. While supermarkets have played their part in introducing and making foods more accessible I think that they are equally as responsible for many ills in society. Over-regulation of farming means that you often don't get exactly what you think you are. "Standardisation" of Milk & the Animals bred for meat, sheep dipping, genetic modification, pesticides, deforestation and fertilisers are all major concerns worldwide. We are generally blessed with an abundance of diverse and high quality food here in England, arguably more-so than some of our European cousins due to our colonial history. You just have to shop smart & know where to find it all! |
| Interests | Cooking, Eating, Drinking, Good times at the beach and in the sunshine, English Food, Marmite, Classic Recipes, Home made Bread, Pasta Dishes, Indian Food, Caribbean Food, Italian Food, Mediterranean Food, Libyan Food, Moroccan Food, Brazilian Food, Polish Food, Vegetarian Food, Danish Food, Greek Food, Salads, Rice dishes, Barbecue, Chinese Food, Thai Food, Malaysian Food, Oriental Food, Soup Recipes, Quality Ingredients, Fresh Ingredients, Seasonal Food, Home Grown Food, Traditional Food, Irish Food, Spanish Food, Tapas Recipes, Fresh Produce, Sussex Food, Sussex Produce, Sussex Lamb, Sussex Organic Food, Southdown Lamb, Southdown Produce, Scotch Whisky, Good Wine, Healthy living, Peace and Quiet, Views, Summer, Gardening, Farming, England, France, Greece, Italy, Spain |
| Favorite Books | Larousse Gastronomique, Mary Berry, Richard Bertinet, Jamie Oliver, Antonio Carluccio, Sophie Grigson, Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall, Pru Leith, The Dairy Book of Home Cooking, Tessa Kiros, Claire MacDonald, Gordon Ramsey, Nigella Lawson, Nigel Slater, Old recipe books, Elizabeth Luard, Keith Floyd and many, many others. |