Have you ever eaten something and mid-chew been floored with memories of far flung time and place? Those fish and chips reminding you of holidays with your grandparents as a kid, retro chocolate bars (for me Freddie Frogs) of messing…
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I grew up in Yorkshire and we take pie very seriously indeed. Ths Fish Pie was a staple of my mother’s, adapted from one by her beloved Marco Pierre White, and I used to love it when she cooked it…
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Nestled in what might just be the greenest nook in England, is The Churchill Arms. Right slap bang in the post card picturesque village of Paxford, near Chipping Camden, the pub sits, looking out over the nearby green. It’s a very English…
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Usual readers of FoodGoblin will not normally turn to it for views on healthy eating and ‘free from’ recipes. The food we eat and write about is real, full flavoured, prepared from the heart; our writers, undoubtedly greedy. However, on…
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Recently I posted my road trip guide to Oxford and the Cotswolds (link here) and mentioned my stay at Keble College, Oxford. I wanted to post a separate piece to elaborate on it a little more and share more photos of…
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Britain is a fabulous place to visit. 34.4 million foreign visitors a year (2014) agree with me, with the United Kingdom being the 8th largest tourist destination in the world! So why don’t the British agree? 58% percent of us…
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In the green, green vales of England’s Cotswolds The Wood Norton nestles. Whilst it nestles discreetly, tucked against a hillside, it also does so grandly. Some might even say it sprawls. It was built in 1897 by the Duc D’Orleans, the exiled French…
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