On something of a whim, I bought a couple of live crabs from Kirkgate Market in Leeds. When we got home, I tipped the crabs into the empty sink and left them there, scaring Jen half to death when one made a determined bid for freedom before she’d noticed its presence. I wasn’t quite sure [...]
As Jonathan Swift put it in 1738, “he was a bold man that first ate an oyster”. That first brave leap into consumption is easy to imagine when you’re holding a freshly shucked oyster in your hand, the slimy flesh swimming in seawater. There’s a lot to put people off about a raw oyster. The [...]
A few years ago, we had a long weekend in the vastly under-rated Belgian capital of Brussels, famous for beer, waffles, a statue of a little boy having a wee and mussels. I ate mussels three nights out of four, and on the other night I had a lobster, which came with a starter of [...]