Salt and Woodsmoke

Having just finished Michael Pollan’s truly excellent (despite the slightly belated and unnecessary vegetarian interlude) The Omnivore’s Dilemma, I was getting excited today about foraging and free food.
Earlier in the week a customer brought in a large box of Victoria plums and gave them to us as she said she had no use for so [...]

That is what we are planning to do and that is what we are doing.
Chris’ sales push is paying off. Wholesale customers from Newark, to St Neot’s, from the Norfolk coast to central London, from Wales to Ireland. Chris was even given Mark Hix’s mobile number this week and told to call him.
Some other older [...]

I pulled this carrot yesterday.

It’s now in a bowl of milk under our bed.

and they go and smoke a lobe of goose foie gras. Not only that but they left no photographic evidence nor did they taste it.
Now I am back I am doing our first batch of mackerel for a few months. They aren’t up to full fighting weight yet but they are heading in the right [...]

Thus speaks the press release from the ‘Clear Beverage Corporation’ about their newly launched ‘Kid Fuel’.
Reading through the press release one can’t help but wonder if this is actually a joke.
Unfrozen raw fish or chemically enhanced water? I know which one I would like to see banned.

Back from a week in the vendee. Travel notes:
Everywhere I looked, from Calais down to Sables D’Olonne, corn/maze was growing. Why, I don’t know. The French don’t use much corn in their cooking do they? They don’t eat breakfast cereals. They’re a wheat people really.
On the one night we went out for dinner, at a [...]