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Long Read: A Tale of Two Cheeses

4th April 2019 | Books, Cheese, Pie Fidelity

new book, Pie Fidelity: In Defence of British Food, is finally published today after two-and-a-half-years' hard work. To celebrate, here's another off-cut that...

Where were you while we were getting pie?

8th March 2019 | Books, Pie Fidelity, Pies

In case you hadn’t noticed, this week is British Pie Week. It’s also just four weeks until my next book, Pie Fidelity, is published....

Three Examples of Why Some Good Beers Cost More

23rd February 2019 | Beer, Brewing, Budweiser Budvar, Cantillon, Lager, Miracle Brew, Water, Yeast

One of the biggest frustrations for brewers is when people who self-identify as lovers of good beer insist that it should always, without exception,...

What bacon rolls tell us about the decline of civilization

18th February 2019 | Bacon, Books, Food, Pie Fidelity

It’s seven weeks until the launch of my new book, Pie Fidelity.Here’s a bit that got cut from the chapter on breakfast, not because it’s no good, but because I had way too many breakfasts in the book, and my primary readers were starting to feel stuffed and greasy just reading it. I don’t think...