A big thank you to all those kind people who took the time (and could be bothered) to enter The Greasy Spoon "Literary Boiled Eggs" competition. To remind you: I asked readers to describe the art of boiling an egg, but in the style of th...

My latest discovery: Venus Black Rice. Originally Chinese, Italian black rice comes from the Po valley, and I gather is a relatively recent concept; the result of a noble collaboration between a co-operative of Northern Italian rice grow...

I'm going to suggest that we start a Chervil Revolution. For some reason it's quite hard to find chervil in Britain- unlike in France. And I really don't know why, as the plug I bought from a herb nursery a month or two ago is now flouri...

I've had fun re-watching some of the programmes from Keith Floyd's "Floyd on France". This was a brilliant (and intelligent) television series made during the 1980's, exploring the regional cooking of France. It made the radical innovati...

Thinking about it, I don't think I've ever held a competition on The Greasy Spoon before, which is stupid of me, I know. And about time too, I hear you mutter. So in the noble interest of experimentation I've come up with a slightly wack...