Hints and tips:
...The menu is classic St John (devilled kidneys on toast, roast bone marrow and parsley salad, chicken and trotter pie) with a nod to the glitz of their temporary home (“A Tin of Caviar”)....
...Whatever comes into season here will feature – whether that’s a leafy salad with fennel flowers, parsley, carrots and arugula, or the flavoursome eight-variety tomato and basil plate....
...The vegetable and fruit stands are exceptional — what a relief to be able to buy a huge, fresh bunch of parsley picked that morning rather than having to make do with the little box of jet-lagged leaves...
...They are created by Charles Gouldsbrough, drinks maker and cocktail expert of Gimlet Bar. Dressed in a tunic and hood, Gouldsbrough has clearly embraced the medieval theme with gusto....
...“It’s usually parsley cod,” says Hislop, indicating the bag. Thankfully, the contents outshine the packaging. I take another stab at satirists’ role in the anti-politics mood....
...We waded through meadows frothy with cow parsley, the sward crackling with crickets. Red-barked cedar trees arced out from the cliffs....
...In Charles II’s time, the entertainments enhanced the parks....
...It was set upon its legs, with a bunch of parsley in its mouth . . ....
...Charles Campbell, with whom I was once the chef in a dodgy nightclub, said that his favourite store-cupboard food was sardines on toast, eaten in bed in the dark. He was a very peculiar chap....
...I begin to hear stories about someone paid to jog in the park with a dog, about a dog walker who takes only Cavalier King Charles spaniels so that they can walk in a pack but only with their own kind....
...Clergyman John Stevens Henslow, a Victorian incumbent and respected botanist and geologist, counted Charles Darwin among his friends....
...So when I came across Charles Carter’s recipe for lemon salad, in The Complete Practical Cook (1730), I was instantly drawn to it....
...Insider tips from some of Sydney’s finest include: trying the greenlip abalone steamboat with noodles and tofu (the abalone sliced live) and asking for the Charles Leong menu, named after Momofuku Seiōbo...
...Try making up a Parmesan crust (panko breadcrumbs, grated Parmigiano Reggiano, chopped fresh parsley, lemon juice and a pinch of salt) and covering the fillets before grilling or roasting the fish....
...So are his ambitions for Waitrose, I offer, putting my dish together as Price slowly chews his halibut, its creamy white flesh strewn with shrimps and flecks of parsley....
...Ingredients 250g raw chickpeas Bouquet garni (thyme, bay leaves and parsley tied together) 1 tablespoon coriander seeds 1 tablespoon cumin seeds 1 teaspoon black peppercorns 6 clove heads 6 cloves...
...Patrick Lamb, court cook to Charles II, James II, William and Mary and Queen Anne, published recipes which included a ramoulade: “chopped onions, mixed with chopped parsley, capers, peppers, salt, oil, vinegar...
...Strike out those semicolons, administer an unyielding regimen of commas and fullstops, and the scene is more manic than wistful: instead of reverie, poor Charles Ryder has a case of the jitters....
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