By Patrick Carpenter, http://patrickcarpenter.blogspot.com/
The proper package!
It was the 150th birthday of fish and chips the other day and I was in Aldeburgh on the North Sea coast and decided to mark the occasion with the bag of “rock ‘n’ chips” shown above. As an insititution, fish and chips was voted in a recent poll as Britain’s most loved (knocking …
By Patrick Carpenter, http://patrickcarpenter.blogspot.com/
moules marinières
A rule of thumb I have when looking at a fishmonger’s slab is, if the fish look a bit sad and dull and not very fresh, I go for the mussels; at least you know that they’re alive and therefore fresh (unless they’re dead of course). In the picture below I am reacting to the fish man’s …
By Patrick Carpenter, http://patrickcarpenter.blogspot.com/
Wine and food matching never excites as much debate as when the food in question is cheese. It is true that a corner of mousetrap or a wedge of supermarket Brie will take the rough edges off a glass of plonky red but great cheese deserves decent wine and the most pleasurable combination will often be with a white…
