Graze.com have an interesting take on snacking in the office. Most of us seasoned office workers have a curious attachment to a vending machine of some type, normally filled with various types of confectionery, crisps and maybe a couple of different types of painkillers. I’ve always thought the fact that our employer sells us painkillers [...]

Cullen skink is a thick, milky soup of smoked haddock and potato, originating from the town of Cullen in Morayshire, Scotland. There’s much debate about the origin of the word ‘skink‘, with the most likely source being a Middle Dutch word for shin of beef which somehow evolved in meaning to include a fish soup. [...]

In Britain, venison has often been seen as exotic, a rich man’s alternative to beef, probably because of the relatively short supply. Venison only came to market as a by-product of wildlife management and hunting. Farmed venison is now widely available, and is of reasonably good quality, but the wild varieties provide the finest quality, [...]

A ‘ballotine‘ is a piece of meat that has been taken off the bone, rolled, stuffed and trussed to make a neat parcel of easily roasted meat. This ballotine involved a wild mallard duck, one of the smaller breeds, stuffed with a boned out partridge, which was in turn stuffed with an apricot and walnut [...]