Celebrating local butchers
The Netherlands is blessed with an abundance of excellent small independent shops, from bakeries and patisseries to flower shops and many, many truly excellent butchers specialising in either purely poultry…
My Love Affair with the Egg: How food writers and chefs have guided and inspired our cooking of this humble ingredient
The Egg I can trace my love affair with the humble egg back to childhood memories of my father bringing home a tray of eggs (36 in total) bought from…
Christmas cake: Why we eat it and when to bake it!
Childhood memories are often the most vivid and evoke emotions which otherwise lay dormant. It is in this context that I start my discussion on Christmas cake, a cake most…