Recipes & more...

Where do you stand on air fryers? I recently wrote about this gadget in my monthly column for Waitrose Weekend, commenting that many...

‘While wandering downtown I saw this cute bookshop, and lo and behold – a copy of your book.’

I had the best fun on a recent visit to Westbank Community Health and Care in Exminster, on the outskirts of Exeter.

An ice cream extravaganza I’ve created in honour of the publication of the publication of Crow Moon, by my fellow debut novelist Suzy...

Now that Knife Skills For Beginners is out in the world, life has changed in several important ways. First of all, whenever I go near a...

I’ve calculated it’s exactly 31 months since I first started writing Knife Skills For Beginners. It sounds a long time – it feels a long...

If you’re in Canada or the United States, you may be wondering when and where you can get hold of a copy of Knife Skills For Beginners....

The denizens of Exeter are lucky enough to have an excellent food shopping street – Magdalen Road. It’s a five minute walk from where I...

Over the last three weeks I’ve driven 433 miles and visited 31 bookshops in Devon, Somerset, Dorset and London. The reason? To deliver...

Like all the best recipes, this one has a story behind it. Last year I wrote an article for a magazine lamenting the fact that apple...

Author's note about Chester Square Cookery School and 'the smallest house in Belgravia'. Knife Skills For Beginners is set in the real...

This is not one of those towering soufflés that collapses as you take it to the table - more a fluffed version of a family favourite.

This is the cover star of Two's Company Simple – on the table in 30-40 minutes, and with hardly any washing up. Once you have the knack...