Jane Grigson's English Food

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It's hard to have a favourite Jane Grigson book, but 'Food with the Famous' is one that I've dipped in and out of for so many years my old Penguin copy has completely fallen apart. I’m not sure I would have discovered it if we hadn’t had a glut of quinces on our tree a few years ago and were casting around for ‘ways to use up quinces’.

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Whisk it into the beaten egg yolks, then pour the mixture back into the pan and cook over a low heat until the custard thickens, coating the back of the spoon. Tryout an experimental ‘egg’ first, to see how you go: do not despair if the final pile looks a little raggy. And how endearing of an author to confess that she always offers up a silent prayer when baking a souffle.Madame Glon lived in great simplicity next door to Jane and Geoffrey in Trôo and used to look after the cave for them when they weren't there. Peel and hollow out the cores of six to eight quinces, being careful not to pierce through the bottom of the fruit. Top each quince with a level tablespoon of sugar and bake at gas 5/190˚ (375˚ F) until the quinces are tender.

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Sharing such an underrepresented cuisine and to see the judges fall in love and see it worthy of such an award made me realise how much my mission to put Omani food on the map is still so important. There is some argument in France as to whether you should poach the egg whites in the milk destined for the custard.Compared with recipes written by a chef, Jane is especially alert to the unexpected or puzzling elements sometimes encountered when cooking from a published recipe. the most companionable presence in the kitchen; often catching the imagination with a deftly chosen fragment of history or poetry, but never failing to explain the "why" as well as the "how" of cookery'. To anyone who has done the amazing feat of getting a first book commissioned, I can only wholeheartedly say they should - must - apply for this because it is a very, very good thing indeed. In 1966 she shared the John Florio prize (with Father Kenelm Foster) for her translation of Beccaria's Of Crime and Punishment.

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She is always cheerful and you can almost hear her peals of laughter at the numerous idiocies of modern life. The judging panel will be chaired by Donald Sloan, chair of the Jane Grigson Trust and of the Oxford Cultural Collective. Winning the Jane Grigson prize been amazing as it has allowed me to discover a community and legacy that appreciates and enjoys the complex history of food that I wasn’t fully aware of. But equally important; the award gave me a huge amount of confidence in the stories I was telling and the messages I wanted the book to get across.Submissions are welcome from authors, publishers and agents and not just of traditional cookbooks but of any books which have food or drink at their heart.

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In The Ark of Taste, radio journalist Dan Saladino will take the reader on a revelatory journey of discovery into the world’s most endangered foods and disappearing flavours. The endorsements, love and support I've received since winning the award in 2021, have felt like adding rocket-fuel to the development of my first book. In 1973, Fish Cookery was published by the Wine and Food Society, followed by The Mushroom Feast (1975), a collection of recipes for cultivated, woodland, field and dried mushrooms. The dessert at Gervaise’s squalid wedding wedding meal – an ‘extra’ which caused argument when the bill was presented – was ‘oeufs a la neige’, eggs in the snow.

It gave me the drive to push forward in finishing a book that I hope Jane herself would have enjoyed. In West Winds, Riaz Phillips tells countless tales of Jamaica through its dishes, drawing on his memories of growing up in the Caribbean diaspora of London and his time spent living in Jamaica.