Length: < 1 min So far, since last week, I’ve only been able to find this pair of English female butchers to add to last weeks post. And no news of anymore yet. Kensal Rise, London, Brooks  Butchers has two young female butchers and they’re… Read More »Great British butchers (who just happen to be female…) Pt. 2 of 2

Length: 2 mins I was going to use this as the title for another piece on Brandt & Levie (and thus as another of the terrible puns) but instead felt it fitted better here, where I want to give a shout-out to a… Read More »“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times”

Length: < 1 min This excellent piece in today’s Observer (and one, purely coincidentally, arriving on the same day as my earlier anti-Tesco rant this morning) asks this question and follows up with why “fresh local produce has been replaced by cheap, bland, industrial-farmed… Read More »The question on the table is: “How can we put the taste back into British food?”

Length: 2 mins … thus cementing its status as a 90s London icon. I ate there once. And it was OK. But for some reason, really quite unmemorable. I have no recollection at all of what I ate. And I don’t think that’s down… Read More »“Lunch at Quag’s, sweetie,” cooed Patsy to Edina…

Length: 6 mins You know what? There still aren’t that many, home or abroad. Traditional misogyny as the main reason aside for a second, it’s also a very physical trade, especially if you’re busting down large cow carcasses all day. That said, there… Read More »Great British butchers (who just happen to be not male…) Pt. 1 of 2

Length: < 1 min Take a look at this mouth-watering breakfast of champions below; I’m not sure anything else needs to be said…. Although interestingly, the Urban Dictionary defines “breakfast of champions” as “a breakfast that your mum probably wouldn’t serve you” A breakfast that… Read More »Hawksmoor breakfast anti-fogmatics

Length: < 1 min Read this piece in sheer disgust as did I. Then sign the petition to stop this happening. Both horses and pigs suffer terribly in the further pursuit of big-pharma profits. They need to to be driven out of business. If… Read More »A rant: the torture hormone that’s used to raise pig reproduction rates…

Length: < 1 min We visited Newton’s house at Woolsthorpe Manor yesterday. Hugely atmospheric, exciting and an very emotional place. And to hear a talk on the year 1666; his Annus Mirabilis and the most important, intense period of scientific discovery until Einstein, 250… Read More »Newton’s hams & birds

Length: < 1 min Just a quick note about a new history page that I’ve put up today discussing the French breed, le Noire de Bigorre, which you should immediately hustle off and read right now. And you’ll see how I came across this… Read More »Frenchie?

Length: < 1 min And as well as allowing the use of antibiotics to carry on saving our lives, this will make a huge difference to the current over-use of antibiotics in animal husbandry. It could have come sooner but it’s a hugely important development and one… Read More »The UN & 193 countries finally agree to fight antibiotic resistance …

Length: 2 mins Saturday was a non-work day. But Sunday? Ah, Sunday was different. Hard work, new concepts, interesting people, challenging ideas and great fun. And pig related. As you’ll see at the end. We spent all day at the London Centre for… Read More »Happenings in Hackney. Or I hope I didn’t get on your Wick?

Length: 5 mins It’s a fact — and one that brooks no credible challenges — that the very best pigs in the world come from England. No “ifs”, no “buts”, no “maybes”. Just a done deal. That said, I recognise that there are… Read More »“Ooooh Ossabaw, what is it good for?”

Length: 2 mins WARNING: This post contains no pork. This will not damage your health though. So don’t stop reading. As well as containing a none too shabby hostel-type hotel (“Pension Homeland“), the grounds of the (still partly security gated & armed sailors… Read More »Brewing up a naval storm

Length: 3 mins A Saturday morning at Brandt & Levie making some sausages from their great tasting Baambrugse pork. Using two of my favourite things in the world (Val Littlewood and Apple tech aside). What’s not to like? Well, this painting they have on… Read More »Gin & sausages. The marriage made in Heaven.

Length: < 1 min OK, I have to fess up. At some point around April, I managed to break the email engine on the blog, so all of you lucky people who’d sensibly signed up for my gems possibly won’t actually have seen anything… Read More »Miss me? Go, on, tell me? You did, didn’t you?

Length: 7 mins A hugely exciting trip to Amsterdam last month; far too short of course as they always are, but starting here for the next few weeks, for your delectation and delight, are some selected, important highlights. If, like me, your Dutch… Read More »Pigs in S̶P̶A̶C̶E̶ Amsterdam

Length: < 1 min This is a great postcard from the Portuguese Letterpress team at Serrote cards. It’s likely to influence heavily any such cards that may be designed by the very wonderful Val Littlewood…

Length: 4 mins                     My post today is pretty much a complete cop out, in that it’s a cut and paste job. But no less important for all that. Taken from an excellent piece… Read More »Stop using the supermarkets. “It’s the only way to be sure…”

Length: < 1 min No sniggering at the back of the class please… Make @TheFoodLab’s Cuban roast pork, and you’ll have a start on an awesome Cubano sandwich.