Tag: food
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Lammas tide
So here we are at Lammas, or Lughnasadh if you like… 1st August and the first of the three pagan harvest festivals. Only the weather has been a tad chaotic recently and in many ways it doesn’t feel this is the moment. That’s the trouble with the otherwise fabulously convenient six weekly pagan festivals, it…
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It’s a burger when history repeats itself…
I couldn’t help smiling – albeit in a slightly pained grimace kind of smile – to see Italy’s agriculture minister digging into a burger. So many memories of our own agriculture minister, back in 1990, feeding his daughter burgers in the midst of the ‘mad cow’ epidemic. Brought back all those images of rank upon…