British Food Fortnight is upon us and what better way of celebrating than tucking into the country’s classic cuisine. Before we consider what might be Britain’s most popular national dish, it’s worth casting our minds back 8,000 years to Britain’s oldest recipe. Back then the likes of potatoes, sugar and chicken hadn’t reached these shores […]

There was a very special birthday this week, for one Homer J Simpson. Born 12th May 1956, our favourite yellow cartoon character reached the ripe old age of 65. Only one more year to go until you claim your pension Homer! Why, in a food blog, are we talking about an imaginary person, albeit a […]

If we told you that Italian food is the most popular food in the UK, would you be surprised? Did you think Indian and Chinese would rank higher? A YouGov survey has revealed that Italian food actually beat all comers, not just in the UK, but around the world. Granted, the survey only involved 25,000 […]

In last week’s blog we gave some food preservation tips to help you in this self-isolation, social distancing world we currently live in, so this week we thought it would be useful to show you how you can also make meals go further. In particular we’re talking about batch cooking, i.e. making something which can […]