L’Art de Bien Manger

  • Orange Peel on Green Tiles – A Fish Recipe

    Orange Peel on Green Tiles – A Fish Recipe

    An orange to me is a luxury, it doesn’t matter that they are to be had everywhere and at the most ridiculous prices, an orange to me has an aura of exquisiteness. Perhaps it’s my mother’s stories, when they shared one orange for the entire family come Saint Nicholas Day, one orange for eight heads… Read more

  • A French Christmas

    A French Christmas

    Now what a month of December! I broke my camera (which bloke invented these spiky metal thingies for reading memory cards), burnt my hand (very stupidly, things like burning oneself usually happen in the most silly manner, so silly that a disposition for self destructive behaviour should be seriously considered), then the freezer stopped working… Read more

  • Eating Colours: Red Cabbage Velouté

    Eating Colours: Red Cabbage Velouté

    There he is, rotten muddy wet and a chill as freezes you thorough and thoroughly, damp and moody, November at its finest.  Bags of rain passing in front of the window, the crows cawing in the big bare oak trees, the sun a tired cold disc behind the low hanging clouds, rolling flatly along the… Read more

  • Creatures from the Dark, Cepes on a Misty Afternoon

    Creatures from the Dark, Cepes on a Misty Afternoon

    What strange creatures, dwelling in the dark of the earth, knitting vast palaces underneath the ground, drawing food from the soil, eating, weaving, thriving unseen even by the crawling worms. And with a noiseless sigh breathing themselves into existence only to withdraw back into the earth.  They are everywhere, now, with the rain wetting their… Read more

  • Oysters Make Good Brackets

    Oysters Make Good Brackets

    I like brackets. Both in light of their orthographical purpose, and of the corresponding implications on real life. Brackets are a way of delineating an entity on its own that remains embedded in and in a way dependent on a larger context. A very good concept. So, to give you an example of kitchen alchemy,… Read more

  • The Last Days of Summer and a Couronne de Tomate.

    The Last Days of Summer and a Couronne de Tomate.

    Oh but these endless days of an endless summer… Stretching like a till paper roll into infinity, all that white space to be filled with the most daring adventures, the most enticing encounters, the sweetest of memories. Or so. That’s how I decided to view things now what with the month of August drawing to… Read more