Neil Cooks Grigson

Tomorrow I am cooking a meal for all at the lab. Because there are so many of us (nine!) it is being hosted at my friends and bosses Dave an...

For some crazy reason I have started a second food blog, and I thought you might like to know! It is called British Food: A History . Surely...

My little winter savory seeds have hatched. I am a Dad! The lamb's head in brain sauce may just be weeks away! (Assuming I can find a...

"And lo, Jesus said, 'Hurry up lads, I am champing at the bit here.'" There have been plenty of recipes in English Food ...

Ey-up, Grigsoners! I’ve not posted for a while on the blog because I have simply run out of money this month. The move up has been pretty ex...

In Jane Grigson's book Good Things , she quotes from the diary of a Parson Woodforde, a Norfolk clergyman who obviously liked his food....

I decided that I needed to get back into doing some proper cooking now that I have a new stove in my new apartment. I invited some people ar...

Hello there! I'm still not up and running in St Louis with blog recipes just yet as I am still getting the apartment sorted and using s...

Just a quick message to say thanks to everyone who looks at the blog – I had a record number of viewings in June. I'm going to be back d...

Trifle (ˈtraɪf(ə)l), n.: A matter of little value or importance; 'a thing of no moment' ( Johnson); a trivial, paltry, or insignific...

For the 300 th recipe I got a few people round to mine for a little dinner party. Number 300 would hopefully be impressive and I wanted to...

Tomorrow I cook the 300 th blog recipe – a dessert, but for #299 I am going to do a lamb dish which requires lamb stock. You don't see ...

" One of the most delicious dishes of eighteenth-century cooking, indeed one of the best of all English dishes ", says Griggers. T...

The tale of this pie is of personal pain and anguish. Let me tell you the tale… It was my work-buddy Chandra's PhD thesis defence yes...

Around fifteen minutes after deciding to cook all the recipes in English Food , I had a first proper look through the good book. It was then...

A rather upmarket version of that Northern English speciality, mushy peas. There is an infamous incident of the MP (now Lord!) Peter Mandel...