For most of us, cooking is not about recipes, or routines, it’s about what’s in the fridge, or what’s cheap, or what’s growing in the garden. Recipes, I have noticed, are for special occasions, or for those things which need fine detail to make them work. For me, that is more likely to be for [...]

Where do you begin to describe Geoff Slattery and his constant, occasionally frenzied search for perfection? A former sports editor whose greatest joy after deadline was to munch happily on a clove of garlic? A writer who can weave into a story about coucous a sporting snapshot of modern life. A father, food critic and [...]