Posts by Britcook

Is she any relation to Julia Child? ;)

Answer - none of them. Port is a style of wine containing several grape varieties, Chardonnay is very popular worldwide, particularly in the US, but in terms of wine produced it lags behind the Ugni Blanc - produced in vast quantities...

And here was me thinking they were similar to Buffalo wings :)

Good luck! And given her name I think you ought to include Sauce Aurora somewhere in the meal.

Hi Suzanne, what dishes are unknown? The only obvious one is the Eccles Cake which is a crispy puff pastry shell, about 3 or 4 inches in diameter, maybe an inch or so high, filled with assorted currants and similar dried fruit with...

Insects are not into rock 'n' roll! Beatles forever!

I think the Gavroche cookbook is written by Michel Roux, who confusingly enough is Albert's son, not to be mistaken for Albert's brother Michel who runs the Waterside Inn in Bray. There are several books by assorted members of the...

I've done a few of these and in the right circumstances with the right people they can be great fun, but a few cautionary notes. They work best in a geographically small area, focused on some kind of community centre, maybe a church or...

Poulet de Bresse is a breed of chicken from France with its own appellation controlee , particularly noted for its flavour (and blue feet!). When a British supermarket chain (Tesco) imported these a few years back they ran a series of...

To translate this into something possibly more meaningful Och aye the noo, Jim laddie (Literally, "Oh yes just now, Jim lad", in reality faux Scottish for, "Well now my boy" or something similar) Scottish...