Sally Vincent’s Diary of Food and Life on a Devon Farm.
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Rain Snow and Lambs
No time for writing, no time for cooking or gardening, no time to plan next summers planting, no time to keep in touch with friends, no time to read, sit still, just be, not time to sleep, no time for anything except lambing and fighting the elements. Lambs were born in record time this year,…
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Enter 2009
“Mr Jones was strongly anti-pig” —————————————————————————————————– Despite the love and laughter of family and friends over Christmas and New Year I find myself entering 2009 with a certain gloom and trepidation that I have rarely, if ever, experienced at this time of year. Usually, with the dark days of November and December behind me, I…
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Happy Christmas
With a little old driver so lively and quick I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick…… “The Night before Christmas” Dr. Clement C. Moore A happy Christmas to everyone across the world And a peaceful 2009
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Holding on this Christmas
My tipsy little Christmas tree sits jauntily in the dining room sporting the same dear old decorations its predecessors have worn for years. I love the sameness of it, the reassuring repetition, same old well worn, slightly shabby decorations, presents piling up on the floor, excited grand children arriving and trying to guess the contents.…
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Carlo Petrini’s in Devon
I’ve been pondering lately the complicated relationship the British seem to have with their food these days. Contradictions abound. On the one hand we treat food as fantastic entertainment; our TV screens host a plethora of food programmes. We lap up Raymond Blanc’s “Restaurant”, Gordon Ramsey’s food nightmares and marathon cookalongs; all entertaining stuff. But…
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To Make Lasagne
Like so many classic Italian dishes, lasagne varies from region to region. Internationally, of course, it has developed another identity altogether as a readymade dish available everywhere which, like Pizza, bears little resemblance to its country of origin. We are most accustomed to a variation made up of a meat and tomato sauce, a simplified…
