Why Don’t We Have A Minister for Food?

Why Don’t We Have A Minister for Food?

Why Don’t We Have A Minister for Food? That’s the question which reverberated with me for days after hearing Professor Alana Mann’s interview with journalist Benjamin Law about her latest book Food In A Changing Climate (Emerald Publishing 2021).I’d been invited...

Gaziantep: The Soul of Turkish Food

Gaziantep: The Soul of Turkish Food I was very lucky to be invited to Gaziantep in south-east Turkiye in 2016 after UNESCO had recognised it as the 2015 Creative City of Gastronomy. The people I met there were so warm, generous and hospitable.  My heart goes out to...

I have had a most rare vision

I have had a most rare vision “I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was…”A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Shakespeare I’m sitting on a sandstone step looking down into a sun-dappled fairy dell.  It’s...

King of the Vegetables

King of the Vegetables   Can you imagine three asparagus spears weighing 500g? It’s the weight recorded by the Roman author Pliny (23 AD – August 25, 79 AD) of asparagus grown in the wetlands of Ravenna in north-eastern Italy.Some stalks even weighed in at 300g...

Ibiza’s Magic Allure

Ibiza’s Magic Allure I’m standing at the top of Dalt Vila, the fortified medieval town on Ibiza, one of the stunning Balearic islands which lie off the eastern coast of Spain.All around me is the blue blue blue of the Mediterranean. Today it’s such a deep blue,...