About the Author

I don’t know why I have always had a more intense fascination with food than most of my peers. Even from an early age one of my favourite programmes was the Galloping Gourmet, Grahame Kerr, cooking with a passion and exuberance that I immediately identified with. My mother fed us a great variety of home cooked meals including stuffed ox hearts and sheep’s’ tongue stew so I was lucky to be exposed