So. After my perfect Paris chocolate day (which still makes me smile whenever I think of it – it really was an absolute gift), I realised that Wednesday could not POSSIBLY live up to the same level of Parisian wonderfulness,…
I am, in fact, still writing my travel diaries, but adding pictures on this laptop is an absolute pain in the neck, and they still come out sideways half the time, so I probably won’t post any more of those…
I was going to be good and write about Bath today, and I still might, but first, I must tell you about the absolutely excellent day I spent in Paris. Which is still quite underwater, incidentally. There are those who…
I have never seen so much chocolate in the same place in my life. In fact, I may never have seen that much chocolate over my entire life to date, though this is harder to judge. When Hannah first started…
It all started so innocently. I thought it would be nice to get some good pasta, and maybe some spicy sausage for carbonara. The rigatone and orecchiete were, of course, sensible pasta options, and I can never resist giant shells…
I had the day off today, which meant it was a day to go exploring interesting food shops! After I went to that cheesemaking workshop, my father mentioned that his grandfathers both used to make cheese (and that, in fact,…
Quite a nice food day today. For one thing, my copy of Hermé’s Macarons arrived this morning, so I got to spend a significant portion of my day at work being an Evil Temptress and making people drool over both…
Somehow, I missed knowing that there was a specialty herb and spice shop in Lygon Street. Well, there is, and it’s called Gewürzhaus, and I’ve just been there. It’s absolutely marvellous. It’s also completely and utterly overwhelming – overwhelming is…
I think I have mentioned elsewhere that I live in the Moreland region, an area which has always had a pretty big immigrant population – mostly Italian, Greek and Turkish, but with a fair scattering of people from India, North…
