My mom is a great cook. She has a way of knowing exactly how to create something delicious out of whatever random ingredients Welsh cake recipe: Here's how this family recipe connects me to homeshe ...
I’d never tasted a Welsh cake until I went to St Dogmaels local producers’ market for the BBC, some years back. I had them hot off the griddle with butter. They’re fragile and melting and much better ...
My cutting board broke last week. It just split in half as I was in the middle of chopping an onion. While surprised, I wasn’t heartbroken. It’s never been quite big enough to work on comfortably and ...
I don't consider myself much of an Anglophile — ask me a question about the royal family, and I can only tell you what I know from watching "The Crown" — but when it comes to British cuisine, I'm a ...
Our family has just returned from a three-week sojourn in Great Britain, so I’ve got a bit of reality whiplash. One day I woke up in a tiny Welsh village that’s straight out of a fairy tale and then, ...
When I returned on Thursday, from visiting my son in England, the trees were wearing white. I had missed most of the reds and golds of the fall foliage and was looking forward to getting back to ...