British Seasonal Food by Mark Hix Published in paperback on March 4th 2011 (Quadrille, £14.99) Photography © Jason Lowe Razor Clams With Wild Boar Bacon and Hedgerow Garlic Jason Lowe Mark Hix grew up in a house so close to the sea in Dorset that he could spot mackerel from his bedroom window. At […]
Month: February 2011
‘Mushrooms Are Friends of Mine’
A great friend gave me a present this week – a copy of food writer M. F. K. Fisher’s 1968 book With Bold Knife and Fork. She’d spotted it in the window of a junk shop and knew I’d love it. The book fell open and my eyes fixed on the fabulous phrase ‘Mushrooms are […]
Pecan Pear Pain Perdu
When I was a breakfast TV reporter my producer Brian, who longed to make arthouse films, used to groan that we were being forced to explore ‘the u-bend of British television’. He said we’d plumbed new depths the morning I did a live parachute jump strapped into the same suit as a member of the […]