Monday, 3 March 2014

More from the kitchen

You might be forgiven for thinking that the person on the right is Stanley Baxter, but it is in fact Zena Skinner. Zena Skinner was a tv cook, and she was contemporary with the early days of Granny Fadock. I used to enjoy watching Zena because she was quite ordinary, and neither snooty nor bossy like Fenny Creddock. I don't remember anything she made, though, but I'm sure it must have been interesting by 1960s standards. It was probably 'fab'.
I want to write something rather lighter than my last two postings, so I'm going to write about food. What I am about to write is so simple, so ordinary, that I hope I'm not going to bore the pants off you.
I have just experienced a level of luxury that I haven't seen in this neck of the woods for many a while. My early lunch was Cabrales, ploughman's chutney, grilled artichokes out of a bottle, and poppy seed biscuits. DEE-FUCKIN-LICIOUS!!! I'm just about to have a fag for afters. I'm making myself slobber as I think of what I've just had.

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