Neil Cooks Grigson

John Evelyn was a very influential diarist who left quite a legacy. He was from a well-to-do family in South-East London, but being the sec...

This is a recipe that is inspired by the medieval love of combining fish and candied sweetmeats. Griggers says it is a ‘ brave, but entirely...

There doesn’t seem to be any history to speak of with this recipe, it seems it is just a way to use up the turkey carcass after Christmas or...

My friends Ashley and Jason were throwing a bit of a party last weekend and it was a pot luck party, where everyone brings some food. We don...

A British classic. It is rather difficult to say how far back the rabbit pie goes – as far back as pies themselves go, I would imagine. The ...

I had heard this year was a good one for grouse, so as they were cheap I ordered a brace from Bentley’s , the local butcher in Pudsey, my ho...

A salmi, also known as salmis , salomine and salomene is essentially a posh game stew and is an abbreviation of salmagundi which started ...

What do you get for the person who has everything at Christmas? A giant pie of course. This goose ‘pye’ consists of an ox tongue within a ch...

This recipe is apparently Jane Grigson’s favourite of the eighteenth century sweet tarts apprently. A sweetmeat is really any delicious swee...

A while ago I made an extremely similar recipe – steak, kidney and oyster pudding . A seminal English dish that I had saved for the landmark...