I had taken a fleeting glance of the beautifully drawn octopus on the cover of Russell Norman's Polpo in bookshops but I did not register how good the book was. I had missed the buzz about Polpo, the restaurant, which is easy to do if you live out of London.
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Introduction to food blogging and photography - a Guardian Masterclass
I am sitting in room 1.1 at the head office of the Guardian Newspaper, London awaiting 10 students. I know one is called Emily and she has told me she is a journalist and has a young child who has both Type 1 diabetes and coeliac disease.
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Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year 2015
Seven years ago when I bought my first DSLR, a Canon 450D, I did not imagine for one minute my work would make it to the finals of an international food photography competition. My ambition at the time was to become a competent photographer so that I could write and illustrate features for the Yorkshire Post and other publications without necessarily having to hook up with a photographer.
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Food Photography
"How many students have we got today?" I asked Joe Piliero, the director of the School of Artisan Food as we were setting up our first Introduction to Food Photograph course a couple of weeks ago. "Fourteen" he answered and I was delighted. Just enough students to work in four groups on our projects for the day but not too many to overwhelm me.
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Baked potatoes with bacon, anchovies and wild garlic
We are still working hard on our book Cooking for the Sensitive Gut which is based on my other blog Cooking for the Sensitive Gu. The manuscript goes to our publishers Pavilion next week and so I am pressed for time - so bear with me. You would not believe the amount of testing, writing, rewriting and generally messing about trying to get things right it involves.
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