Comments on: Retro Food http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/retro-food Cooking - Photography & More Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:41:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/retro-food#comment-1048 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:17:47 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/retro-food#comment-1048 Elsie, I too saw the article that you mention, how effective it will prove I'm not so sure. We live in hope! Miles Elsie,
I too saw the article that you mention, how effective it will prove I’m not so sure.
We live in hope!
Miles

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/retro-food#comment-1047 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:16:41 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/retro-food#comment-1047 Rod, You can't beat a nice pie and as you say it's all in the filling. Happy Claret Free New Year to You! Miles Rod,
You can’t beat a nice pie and as you say it’s all in the filling.
Happy Claret Free New Year to You!
Miles

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/retro-food#comment-1046 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:14:43 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/retro-food#comment-1046 Cid, You're quite right about the soup, as for the pickle, you must have a go at making your own if you don't already, it's far nicer. Miles Cid,
You’re quite right about the soup, as for the pickle, you must have a go at making your own if you don’t already, it’s far nicer.
Miles

]]> by: Elsie Nean http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/retro-food#comment-1043 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:34:28 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/retro-food#comment-1043 Miles, Coming back to one of your earlier posts about Free Range Chickens, Hugh Fernley-Whitingstall is clearly backing your call on buying free range chickens. He is beating the drums for everyone to boycott battery hens in a big newspaper article. Similar to your above suggestion, these people are often best placed to mobilise the country into making changes. I agree with you about good traditional pub grub - bring it back, emphasis on good, mind you :) Elsie Miles,
Coming back to one of your earlier posts about Free Range Chickens, Hugh Fernley-Whitingstall is clearly backing your call on buying free range chickens. He is beating the drums for everyone to boycott battery hens in a big newspaper article. Similar to your above suggestion, these people are often best placed to mobilise the country into making changes.
I agree with you about good traditional pub grub - bring it back, emphasis on good, mind you :)
Elsie

]]> by: Rod http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/retro-food#comment-1042 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:07:43 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/retro-food#comment-1042 Miles great post - I absolutely agree with you. I understand how chefs need to keep putting new things on a menu but much that I see now is purely for this reason only. I see the primary job of a good chef as giving somebody a damn tasty meal in good time and without poisoning them ! The rest is window dressing. These retro dishes hang around for a reason, some hundreds of years in fact, they work ! A great chef should be able to do some great things with traditional dishes. By bringing their talents and the best ingredients to the dish - it's a recipe (groan) for success. Imagine traditional pies by someone such as yourself, all the finest stuff inside - superb. Wheel it on ! Rod Miles
great post - I absolutely agree with you.
I understand how chefs need to keep putting new things on a menu but much that I see now is purely for this reason only.

I see the primary job of a good chef as giving somebody a damn tasty meal in good time and without poisoning them !
The rest is window dressing.

These retro dishes hang around for a reason, some hundreds of years in fact, they work !

A great chef should be able to do some great things with traditional dishes. By bringing their talents and the best ingredients to the dish - it’s a recipe (groan) for success.

Imagine traditional pies by someone such as yourself, all the finest stuff inside - superb.
Wheel it on !
Rod

]]> by: Cid http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/retro-food#comment-1039 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:53:11 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/retro-food#comment-1039 Miles, I've never liked mushy peas but I could certainly cope with everything else on the menu. I take it that London Particular is pea and ham soup which I love, well all except those I've tried with chunks of gristly bacon.... yuk. Now you mention it there's no Piccalilli in this house, something I must rectify and now have a yearning for..... perhaps it's good for colds? Cid Miles,

I’ve never liked mushy peas but I could certainly cope with everything else on the menu. I take it that London Particular is pea and ham soup which I love, well all except those I’ve tried with chunks of gristly bacon…. yuk. Now you mention it there’s no Piccalilli in this house, something I must rectify and now have a yearning for….. perhaps it’s good for colds?

Cid

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