Food geekery (what I talk about when I talk about food writing)

You’ve got your copy of Fire &Knives.

You’ve turned it over in your hands. Admired the neat hand(man)bag size. Fondled the paper. Scanned through quickly. Wondered where to start. Felt a curious warm feeling. Loved the retro design and adverts. Touched the paper (again). Mulled over the contents,undecided whether to read from front to back,dip in randomly,pick the most enticing item first,or save it until last. You’ve held it close to your face;breathed in the wonderful print and paper aroma. Given thanks that the editor and publisher (one Mr T Hayward) had the idea [...]

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Boxed in

About a month ago I was contacted by the PR firm for Abel &Cole asking if I’d like to try one of their veg boxes for free,well in exchange for doing a review of it on my blog,after all nothing is truly free;although I figured they’d have a hard time trying to enforce the contract if I just scoffed the food then did nothing.

Legal matters aside there was,of course,the issue of whether to accept a freebie and whether you can write an objective review of something you didn’t pay for. In actual fact [...]

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