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I committed the food blogger’s textbook error lastnight. I spent half an hour whirling about my little kitchen making a late supper. As smells of garlic, and lamb gently wafted through the flat, I was practically salivating by the time I plated everything up. Rather than putting any effort into a nice photograph whatsoever, I [...]

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I love the new Sharwoods advert. But it does confirm something I’ve always suspected—that the curry sauces on supermarket shelves aren’t meant to taste of India. As the ‘SHAR1’ bus trundles the length of the country-past forests, across rivers along terraced houses, the gentle northern voiceover reminds us of the Sharwood’s tag line: ‘Great British [...]

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I learned this recipe on a cooking course six years ago, and it’s been my go-to dish ever since. In fact, the first cooking job I did, I was called up at 10 o’clock in the morning and told that I’d be cooking supper in Gloucestershire that evening, so I legged it to the butcher, [...]

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In my ongoing quest to find the best of the best curries, I’ve come across another worthy contender. Hazraj has just opened in Kentish Town, and delivers delicious, cheap Indian street food rather than the overpriced, Anglicized curry-sludge that Londoners are subjected to in so many other curry houses round the city. For £5.95 you [...]

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Recently I told a long lost friend that I was living in East London. He looked at me, eyes brimming with pity, and asked whether I’d had to eat many jellied eels. If he wasn’t being deadly serious, I wouldn’t have been so shocked. But he was. The East End has been shackled with a [...]

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Mum has always been clued up about nutrition. When I was about 10 years old I did a biology project where I had to write down everything I ate and work out all the calories and general goodness in my meals. The problem was that this project ran over Saturday mornings, where we had the [...]

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