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Phil White - thinking, doing, writing: September 2010

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Phil White - thinking, doing, writing. Saturday, September 11, 2010. Ah, fish. My stomach began to rumble. Unfortunately I had neither the inclination nor the equipment to go and pull lunch from the briny. I had a fish round the fridge and larder instead, an expedition which yielded a jar of anchovies, garlic, onions, a tin of lentils and some liquid left over from a watery Filipino fish stew made by my wife a few days ago. The sauce was united with the fishy lentils. I thought it needed rounding out...

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Phil White - thinking, doing, writing: I had a little nut tree

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Phil White - thinking, doing, writing. Monday, October 4, 2010. I had a little nut tree. WALNUTS LOOK like rotting crab apples. Or at least, ours do. For this reason and because of a mental image of huge, spreading branches and elephant-hide bark, we had no idea that the little tree along the garden fence line was Juglans regia. As those of a horticultural persuasion might greet it. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. View my complete profile. A matter of values.

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Phil White - thinking, doing, writing: April 2011

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Phil White - thinking, doing, writing. Wednesday, April 13, 2011. Ship-shape and rissole fashion. Under my arm was a foil-wrapped box containing quite a bit of roasted fish, the overspill from our feast. Adriatic fish tends to be smaller than most, but the species variation is incredible. Not one of the pieces in our doggy bag was the same, ranging from bits of large flat fish to entire, smaller, ugly things. They were fried in breadcrumbs, which rather hampered identification. But what did I care? Armed...

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Phil White - thinking, doing, writing: Hic Transit Gloria: Oddbins – a love poem

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Phil White - thinking, doing, writing. Friday, April 1, 2011. Hic Transit Gloria: Oddbins – a love poem. Never having undergone a job interview before, I had no real expectations of this encounter. The manager however, was highly experienced in these matters. He had honed his appraisal technique to two main questions: “do you take sugar? 8221; and “when can you start? 8221; My career in wine retail was underway. Brian was a large man in his Sixties. He had evident learning difficulties, and rather th...

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Phil White - thinking, doing, writing: December 2011

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Phil White - thinking, doing, writing. Monday, December 19, 2011. The Paste of Success. THE MOTHER of invention has several names. Some identify her as necessity, others war. I have just added another moniker to her list – stupidity, or more specifically, forgetfulness. 8221; we ask ourselves when something arises that requires us to act. For sour cream soda bread, adapted to use live yoghurt instead of soured cream because that’s what we generally have a pot of malingering on a fridge shelf. R...A coupl...

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Phil White - thinking, doing, writing: Ship-shape and rissole fashion

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Phil White - thinking, doing, writing. Wednesday, April 13, 2011. Ship-shape and rissole fashion. Under my arm was a foil-wrapped box containing quite a bit of roasted fish, the overspill from our feast. Adriatic fish tends to be smaller than most, but the species variation is incredible. Not one of the pieces in our doggy bag was the same, ranging from bits of large flat fish to entire, smaller, ugly things. They were fried in breadcrumbs, which rather hampered identification. But what did I care? Armed...

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Phil White - thinking, doing, writing: October 2010

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Phil White - thinking, doing, writing. Wednesday, October 20, 2010. 8220;TO ACCUSE us of racism is outrageous,” declared councillor Filippo Candelise. “All we are doing is protecting the culinary patrimony of the town.” Mr Candelise is a councillor in the Tuscan town of Lucca, which early in 2009 became the epicentre of a small gastronomic earthquake when it declared a ban on new ethnic food outlets opening within its ancient city walls. As reported in the Sunday Times. Monday, October 4, 2010. Thinking ...

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Phil White - thinking, doing, writing: November 2010

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Phil White - thinking, doing, writing. Saturday, November 20, 2010. HARASSED-LOOKING men jostled for their turn to park haphazardly by the entrance. Solid women accosted them, jabbing clinking carrier bags into their chests and demanding that they lift 25-litre drums of cooking oil into the tiny, groaning cars, two or three at a time. “Jesus,” I thought. “So this is shopping? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. View my complete profile. A matter of values. The Blog of Butters.

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Phil White - thinking, doing, writing: Wild Fig Hunt

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Phil White - thinking, doing, writing. Friday, October 1, 2010. These canny shopkeepers have a point. Dried figs may look as though they once hung from miniature billy goats, but their interior is a delight. Lots of seeds are surrounded by an amazing, sweet-and-sour flesh. Removing the moisture from the fruit only concentrates the flavours and sugars. We all should want, as the Christmas carol reminds us, some figgy pudding. Reference to it and his surely excellent book, Osteria. View my complete profile.