Length: 3 mins Thanks to Gay, one of the (hugely smart, intelligent, bright, discerning) people signed up to read the site, I was reminded of rillons. As the daughter of a butcher (and someone who really likes her food), she’s well aware of… Read More »Riffing on rillons
Length: 2 mins The arrival on a screen close to you (motion picture cinema, Apple TV, YouTube on your ‘phone, whatever), of “Wasted! The Story of Food Waste“, on October 13th is an event that I’m really looking forward to. Albeit it’s one… Read More »Time to get Wasted!
Length: 6 mins I certainly do. And once you understand what that means, you probably will as well… This piece was suggested by reader Gay who — in a comment on one of the earlier pieces here — mentioned that as a child,… Read More »Fancy some kay-rop potches?
Length: 6 mins You’ll already know that this blog isn’t 100% pig focused. That it’s not just a monomaniacal series of elegiac pieces on pork. This occasional slight change of focus isn’t because I’ll ever run out of things to talk, or rant or… Read More »Hogging the bloody pudding again?
Length: < 1 min …so, apologies for the recent hiatus in new posts, as we have been working hard on the preparation for the launch for the new book this weekend. Come & join us if you can at Easton Walled Gardens’ ‘Autumn Country… Read More »A short break on the blog….
Length: 3 mins We’re involved with a local campaign to re-wild as much as possible of our village as part of a larger community exercise to reduce CO₂, lower waste output and drop our energy consumption. The former includes such items as wild… Read More »Grow me an orchard
Length: < 1 min And what will I get for my money? Both, very sensible questions. So, here’s the details you need. The book will be available after our public launch at Easton Walled Gardens on 8th September. Along with all of the other… Read More »How much does our beauty cost?
Length: < 1 min A screw up by me means that you may have been un-subscribed from getting email updates in the usual way. So if you see this post and want to carry on getting the latest news in your in-box (and I… Read More »Apologies
Length: < 1 min Our new book drops in September, a full month before the latest magnum opus from St. Fergus of Henderson. I don’t think he’s going to be too worried by this knowledge of course; he’s rightly probably not fearing overmuch that… Read More »The Gospel according to St. Chris
Length: 4 mins Since 1937 when the Hormel Corporation first introduced their new “spiced * ham” or — as no one is actually quite sure what it stands for — it may actually have been named as the more honest “spare meat” (albeit… Read More »Spam, spam, spam, spam.. (ad infinitum)
Length: < 1 min “It’s not pie”… Nothing wrong with pie of course; but it, unlike compassion, is of a limited size.
Length: < 1 min Finally, in 2019, the long, long road to the release of our book is close to the end. A hand-printed, limited edition Letterpress delight, will soon be available to buy from here. And in The Year Of The Pig as… Read More »The new book
Length: < 1 min ..sub-titled “A Tale Of The Hungry, Hungarian Haggis”. In Hungary, their sensible frugal use of offal results in a food item called a “kis gömböc”; a pig’s bladder (or intestine) stuffed with the ‘leftovers’ after the pig is killed. And… Read More »The sausage that ate YOU…
Length: < 1 min Apart from a mention of it here earlier on the blog, I’d just come across something in this book that I needed to share with you. If you can get hold of a copy of this commendably slim book, it’s … Read More »Is that a speck in your eye? Or are you just laughing?
Length: < 1 min Nope. Wrong. Not ‘in shit’. But ‘in water’. This video (via Public Health England) is funny & instructive. https://twitter.com/DickKingSmith/status/1153920924791508993/video/1
Length: 2 mins I write this on the day where just 0.27% of the UK population voted to elect and put into office, our new Prime Minister. Nothing like “taking back control of our democracy” eh? (Voice-off: “And no, that’s NOTHING like it”).… Read More »If you prick us, do we not bleed?
Length: < 1 min Now this is a chicharrón and a half; truly a giant amongst them all. To give you an idea of the scale, this shot shows it posed alongside a quite normally sized human: The Berkshire’ [note how this breed keeps… Read More »Super-size me some Chicharrón
Length: 2 mins No, not just yet. Hopefully. In some really rather encouraging news, the RBST has launched a new campaign for this critically endangered breed — one that has been described as “rarer than the Giant Panda”; which isn’t far from the… Read More »Lop’ped off?
Length: < 1 min Sorry for the radio silence from here; but we’re cracking on with The Book.
