I think I eat too much meat. I’ve been trying to cut down recently, have a couple of days a week without any meat, and to eat more fish and seafood instead of just, well, red meat, that sort of...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2017/07/naturally-nourished-by-sarah-britton/
A few years’ ago, there was a public health campaign warning of the dangers of heart disease. It featured a middle-aged everyman who’d let himself go, a couch potato who drank too much. At on...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2017/05/saffron-soul-by-mira-manek-2/
There’s a quote on the front cover of Sumayya Usmani’s book, Summers Under the Tamarind Tree: Recipes and memories from Pakistan, from Madhur Jaffrey that states simply that “this book is a...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2016/04/summers-under-the-tamarind-tree-by-sumayya-usmani/
WHAT: This is a book about cocktails, and how to make them. It’s by the brains behind a couple of London’s most exciting cocktail bars, the sort of places where the weird meets the wonderful ...
Cheese isn’t the first thing you’d normally think of as a seasonal product, but it very much is. It stands to reason, really – a cheese is the result of the specific treatment of a set of i...
A few years ago, we had dinner at a Spanish restaurant in Liverpool. It was a little disappointing, but the one thing I remember clearly was that I decided to follow the hints on the menu and or...
Vanilla Table: The Essence of Exquisite Cooking from the World's Best Chefs, by Natasha Macaller
I’m going to go out on a limb here – a very, very short limb, I accept – and state that French food is the best in the world. It’s the mothership of cuisines, the place that anybody with ...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2015/03/french-regional-food-by-joel-robuchon-and-loic-bienassis/
Dhruv Baker won Masterchef a few years ago. Now, normally at this point, I’d start reeling off a whole series of snide, unhelpful and generally smart arse comments about TV chefs, etc, etc, but...
Years ago, I used to live in a little flat on the side of a big house. It had a long set of stone stairs leading up to the front door, and the top of the stairs caught the sun for a good few ho...
https://www.them-apples.co.uk/2012/03/herbs-by-nikki-duffy-river-cottage-handbook-number-ten/