British Food Fortnight is upon us and what better way of celebrating than tucking into the country’s classic cuisine. Before we consider what might be Britain’s most popular national dish, it’s worth casting our minds back 8,000 years to Britain’s oldest recipe. Back then the likes of potatoes, sugar and chicken hadn’t reached these shores […]

Amidst the rush to return to big-crowd sporting events and nightclubs, it seems lockdown has also prompted a yearning for a more sedate pastime. Angling is not usually associated with stampedes, but it’s now at the centre of a rush to the riverbank. It’s quite a shift from its traditional image. You may recall the […]

As you will be aware, we like a food awareness day here in the SK kitchen, if only because it gives me the chance to really think outside the box when it comes to matching a recipe to the chosen topic. So, it’s fair to say I was particularly delighted when I discovered its International […]

Although we’re starting to see light at the end of the tunnel (touch wood) after the last 12 months, if there’s anything we need right now as we wait for restrictions to lift, it’s a good laugh. So, Red Nose Day has come at exactly at the right time and as staying in has become […]

If the last 12 months have taught us anything it’s that the world is a crazy place but if there’s one silver lining that has brought a smile to our faces, it’s the amount of new, and often weird and wonderful, food combinations that people have come up with. Only this week we learned that […]