Cooking in a Bedsitter
I learned to cook in a ‘bedsit.’ A bedsit, as bedsitters were generally called, was the English equivalent of an American efficiency apartment. Well, kind of an equivalent. Although bedsits…
Read moreIdylls of the Farmhouse Kitchen
In my last post, Memories of English Farmhouse Cooking: Beyond England, I talked about three books that reminded me of the English farmhouse cooking with which I grew up: Joan…
Read moreA Brace of Pheasant: Farmhouse Christmas Dinner in England in the 1950s
All morning the smell of pheasant roasting had me hovering in the kitchen. Now I was ready. On my plate was a perfect slice of white breastmeat (with a couple…
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