I roam, grow my own, brave the kitchen heat and know my woozy way around a wine list. Welcome to my (very personal) world of food and drink…
After years of journalistic hyper-activity, lockdowns made me reassess the food and drink I really care about. Refreshed and unrestrained, I started this. Call it a blog if you must, it’s certainly a change of direction. Less about me, more the discoveries I want to share. Read more…











The Freemasons at Wiswell: Surely the best value set lunch around?
Fallot’s Tarragon Mustard – how the seeds of my affection were sown
Zucchini the road trip takes in Haute Provence, Mantua and the Mendips
The Angel at Hetton stretches its wings under Wignall
Black Friar gastropub – Got to get ourselves back to the garden
Xinomavro and Thessaloniki – our epic Greek voyage of discovery
Caviar – quite a scoop as I unleash my inner oligarch
No end to my sizzling love affair with the Moorcock