Hold The Anchovies Please

Le Pain Quotidien (luh-PAN-koh-TI-dyan) is a wonderful chain selling honest-to-goodness seasonal food as well as wonderful baked goods.  It began life in Brussels by a chef unimpressed with the bread on sale.  Alain Coumont began making his own, and fitted out his store with pieces of furniture from…

I love a pie.  My favourite would be plump, generously meat-filled with THE crispest pastry, served with nursery-soft potato, lashings of gravy and some green vegetables.  Just as well that Pieminister are on the market because their pies are better than my Mum’s (and that’s saying…