I’ve never liked Delia, with her pop-tart approach to cooking, her single ingredient seasonal obsessions, but mostly I think I disliked her for grammar-fetishistic reasons – in particular I took against her for the way she said “ground nut oil” – it just seemed so incredibly lazy. What kind of cook, cared so little about [...]
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Carrots …my forgotten vegetables
I happily went for many years without eating a carrot. It’s not that I disliked them particularly – they have a pleasingly vibrant colour for a vegetable – it’s just that they never played any part in my deliberations when cooking or planning meals. My friend J, who is a vegetarian, eats enough carrots for [...]
