[Reading this in a feed reader like Feedly or Flipboard? Cooksister’s feed is being updated to https://www.cooksister.com/feed – please resubscribe in your reader of choice!] When people start getting wistful about the “good old days” and how thing were so much better when they were young/before the world wars/before the Rolling Stones were born, I […]
Click here for a full portionCauliflower steak Welsh rarebit
What’s in a name, asked William Shakespeare, as he reasoned that a rose called something different (a smurgunkle, for instance) would still essentially remain the same sweet-smelling flower. Clearly, Billy-boy was not in my home town last week to witness the drama, laughter, tears, celebration, memes and confusion that greeted the city’s name change from […]
Click here for a full portionThe Melusine
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.” Celebrated science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin wrote this in 1969, but in the middle of this period of unprecedented world uncertainty I find myself turning the phrase over and over in my mind like a pebble in […]
Click here for a full portionPotted smoked salmon with quick pickle apple slaw
Can you remember what your view of the world was like; what your fears were; and what you looked forward to in the future when you were seven years old? Many of us might have recollections if something particularly traumatic or triumphant happened to us at that age, but for most of us it would […]
Click here for a full portionDiscovering the wines of Pays d’Oc
Many moons ago when I first arrived in the UK nearly 20 years ago, I remember being totally baffled by my first encounter with French wine labels. Coming from a country where (at the time) the vast majority of all wines were bottled as varietal wine, I would stare at a French wine label reading […]
Click here for a full portionCranberry pistachio Bircher muesli – a Pret-a-Manger fakeaway
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.” So wrote that master of the nicely encapsulated aphorism Winston Churchill – and how true it is, in light of the events of the past year. At some point in the future when the current global Covid-19 crisis has subsided to […]
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