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BBC Good Food feature
We are pleased as punch to announce that 3 of our gorgeous member profiles have been featured in this months BBC Good Food magazine. Over the next few weeks we will release these in more depth on this blog, but before we do, here’s a little snippet from the mag! (In case there are any […]
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Seaside Lights and Pineapple Cake: an excerpt from WI Kitchen Stories
If each WI could be described as possessing its own unique tapestry made up of myriad personalities, backgrounds, skills and interests, then WeyBay Women’s Institute in Weymouth, Dorset, sits in the realms of the technicolour dreamcoat WI. Nothing says it more than the life-size ice-cream cone that greets us one step in to the President’s […]
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Marcus Wareing
Shortly before Christmas I was commissioned to photograph a ‘mini-masterchef’ with one of the TV programmes judges, Marcus Wareing. Time Out’s deputy editor Jonny Ensall was on the receiving end of Marcus’ famously sharp tongue. When presented with the Mince Pie that Jonny had slaved over, the feedback was a spluttering, yet good-natured tirade of […]
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Summer update
Our Kitchen Stories journey is gaining pace, unveiling personal tales of life, love and adventure as experienced through the prism of a home-baked signature dish. We are hopeful that our series of portraits, interviews and recipes will make it to the shelves of a bookshop near you! With this in mind we don’t want to […]
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Lemon Yoghurt Cake
On Tuesday I was lucky enough to be treated to a posh lunch at The Orange by my brilliant photographer friend Gemma. It was pure decadence: prosecco, wine, more wine, great food and er… more wine. Fortunately a main perk of daytime drinking* is the lack of hangover. Hurrah. I managed to nullify my posh […]
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Mother’s Day Granola
So I am just about to set off and meet my mum at the station for her annual Mother’s Day weekend in London. I love this time of year when I get to spoil her and thank her (in a small way) for all that she has done and continues to do for me. She […]
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Chris Holmes a.k.a Mr Cake
I recently photographed workers hero Chris Holmes who famously ‘socked it to the man’ by icing his resignation letter on a cake. After years of monotony checking passports at Stansted airport, he started up his own cake business which grew enough to encourage him to finally resign by cake. Apparently his boss received it with […]
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Goddamnit Nigella, you get me every time…
So there I am, sat at my computer for hours trawling through picture edits and I decide I need a break. My strained eyes are closing from the screen abuse, and my limbs are flaccid from the lack of movement. I decide to do something physical and tidy some books away but they lead me […]
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Betty and her delicious Derbyshire Tart
Betty. We kind of fell in love with Betty. It was hard not to, really. Pulling into her drive in Derbyshire, we were first met by her ducks swimming around the pond out front and a couple of ponies grazing in a field. Out she came to greet us, a warm, kind face all at […]
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Mary Berry
In this months WI Life you will find my shoot with celebrity chef and Great British Bake Off judge, Mary Berry. Since the first series of GBBO I have been an avid watcher and admirer of both judges and contestants. I couldn’t imagine anything more stressful than baking on TV, particularly as it is such […]