Miles Collins

Batemans Beer/Brewery/Lincolnshire

What and Where would You Eat it?

Here’s a small post with the intention of throwing it over to you to fill out. I’d like to know what you would choose to eat as your last meal, where you would eat it, who with and why. It can be any dish from any country and for any […]

Q: What’s the Weather Like in the Lake District?
A: Awful! 
Four years in the Lake District might sound like heaven to some and for much of it I have to say it pretty much was. Everyone told me how lucky I was to work in such a beautiful place and how they envied me but I […]

The chicken out tv campaign by river cottage

Food from war-time Britain

Fruit trees and bushes begining to flower

How to use nettles in cooking

Growing asparagus

It’s bloody annoying….

Just a quick rant, why is it that whenever I type the ‘L’ and/or ‘V’ key it never seems to register and I have to constantly re-type the word, i.e Mies. It is so annoying, as is leaving my finger on the caps lock after typing the first letter, i.e MIles.
Whilst I’m on it, this […]

Is there one?

During the past few months in Britain animal rights activists have done much to increase public awareness of the way foie gras is made and to protest about the fine dining restaurants that serve it.
For those who are not familiar with the production of foie gras it is an age old method of […]