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Tea and Good Manners
Dr Sally Bayley. When I was eight years old my grandmother taught me how to make tea. It has proved to be one of the most vital lessons of my life. Tea, in my household, was radically inclusive....
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Tea : An Exquisite Order of Things
Dr Sally Bayley. ‘Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea’, so begins Henry James’s novel, A Portrait of A...
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Tea : Tea Shop Confidences
Dr Sally Bayley. Tea shops encourage the telling of intimate things. A tea shop rendezvous automatically creates intimacy and sympathy; over tea and teacakes you are ushered into a feminine world of...
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Tea: Tea and Biscuits
Dr Sally Bayley. I was recently visiting a friend in Hampstead and naturally was offered tea. I was alarmed to find that, for her, tea came without biscuits. ‘What, not even a decent gingernut?’ I...
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Tea: Christmas Tea with Dickens
Dr Sally Bayley. Christmas brings on thoughts of Dickens and so I have been rereading my Great Expectations, my Martin Chuzzlewit and Dickens’s Christmas story for 1845, ‘The Cricket on the Hearth’....
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Tea: A Warm Red Glow
Dr Sally Bayley. Few teas are as pretty and pleasing to look at as S. Africa Redbush tea. Pour it into a glass and watch it glow amber-to-red. Its natural sweetness makes it drinkable without milk,...
View ArticleAbsolute Heimat
It’s Jo’s birthday, a significant birthday, and we wake up in an old-school, slightly Munsterish pension in the picture-postcard town of Boppard, on the Rhine near Frankfurt. Welcome to Boppard, says...
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BAKED RADICCHIO & PARMA HAM
Fern Verrow is a biodynamic farm at the foothills of the Black Mountains in Herefordshire. Farmed by Jane Scotter and Harry Astley. Their book follows a year of growing and cooking, with seasonal,...
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FENNEL, CELERY, AUBERGINE, LENTIL & FETA SALAD
Fern Verrow is a biodynamic farm at the foothills of the Black Mountains in Herefordshire. Farmed by Jane Scotter and Harry Astley. Their book follows a year of growing and cooking, with seasonal,...
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OAS | FOUR WOMEN – TIFFANY JESSE – FOOD ALCHEMIST
OAS is our new collection of workwear-inspired clothing. Our shoot features four women, going about their work, wearing OAS clothes. A potter, a gardener, a gatherer and preserver and an icon painter....
View ArticleBologna and Bolgonese
We arrive in Bologna in mid-August and it’s more or less deserted. We’ve looked at a Ten-Best-Things-To-Do-In-Bologna website. Number 9 is ‘Meet the Locals’. This is proving difficult. The Bolognese...
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BEETROOT & CREAM CHEESE TART
Fern Verrow is a biodynamic farm at the foothills of the Black Mountains in Herefordshire. Farmed by Jane Scotter and Harry Astley. Their book follows a year of growing and cooking, with seasonal,...
View ArticleThe Inventor Of The Corn flake
So, what’s been going on in the world of nutrition? Gut Guru Giulia Enders has published her Inside Story Of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ, and has sold a million copies in her native Germany....
View ArticleLemon Verbena & Elderflower gin punch | Tiosk & Sipsmith
TOAST has invited loose tea and natural food cafe TIOSK to provide the food and drink for our Of The Land talks in London, Bath & Oxford. Owner Natasha has designed a Lemon Verbena &...
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SUPPER WITH FRIENDS | DRESSING THE TABLE
Darkness is encroaching on our precious daylight hours and temperatures are beginning their downward descent. Our time is increasingly spent seeking warmth, either in our woollens and long coats or in...
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Seasonal Supper Recipes | By Claire Thomson
When Lou Archell of Little Green Shed asked me to cook for the inaugural Sisterhood Supper with TOAST, to be held later that month, I jumped at the chance. Cooking a seasonally inspired supper at The...
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FIG & EARL GREY VICTORIA SPONGE RECIPE
Violet Bakery originated as a market stall on Broadway Market and is now a small bakery-cafe based in East London. Founder Claire Ptak is a food writer, prop stylist and recipe developer, specialising...
View ArticleA Food Alphabet
A Food Alphabet A is for Artisan this and Artisan that A is for Allergies, which we all have now A is for Avocado on toast, adult baby food B is for Barbecuing – Bangers, Burgers, Beef, Belly pork –...
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WINTER’S BONE | ANDREA GENTL RECIPES 1
Andrea Gentl splits her time between New York City and Delaware County New York, she is a photographer, stylist and blogger. She is one half of the still life, food, travel and lifestyle duo, Gentl and...
View ArticleRASPBERRY CACAO & TAHINI PORRIDGE RECIPE | 26 GRAINS
Porridge cafe 26 Grains, based in Covent Garden, was started by Alex Hely-Hutchinson. Having spent a year living in Copenhagen, 26 Grains finds inspiration in Scandinavian cooking traditions. Their...
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