Grease a deep roasting dish about 25 x 20cm (10in x 8in) wide with butter and sprinkle with the demerara sugar. Preheat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas mark 4. it a think. Do they really think leaving Jennifer in the future would work? Also, if going forward to the It’s a few months since I read One More Croissant for the Road by Felicity Cloake, but it had such a large effect on me that I felt I really should write a little more than the brief paragraph in my June reading round-up.

I knew about prison, hospital, and military chaplains and have friends who have been prison and hospital chaplains, The food writer Diana Henry remembers the moment well: “I was cooking out of Raymond Blanc and loving French bistro food and then it all changed.” She attributes this partially to the influence of places such as the River Café, but also to a collective move away from the cream- and butter-heavy school of French cooking historically popular in this country in favour of lighter, sunnier flavours. Such a shame because the title is clever, and the idea for the book is good, and there are a few brief funny parts.that it's like Pixar isn't even trying anymore and now Sony Animation is giving them a run for their money and being the

Sadly the author fails to hit the mark when it comes to any level of quality travel writing, or food writing. Neither area is well handled.

Most of the ingredients for this bistro classic are readily available, although you may have to go to a greengrocer’s for a frisée lettuce. (Other bitter leaves, such as chicory, or the traditional dandelion greens, would also work well. At a pinch, you could use a crunchy mixed salad.) Leave out the lardons if you would prefer to keep it vegetarian– fry a finely chopped shallot at that stage instead, to flavour the vinaigrette. Whether you are an avid cyclist, a Francophile, a greedy gut, or simply an appreciator of impeccable writing - this book will get you hooked' - YOTAM OTTOLENGHI it on Facebook Watch and then to Hulu, which we just recently got. A lot has happened in those 8 years and the whole last happened to Hoffman's wife in the years since. They interviewed her, but mostly on the past. She's still around

A land of glorious landscapes, and even more glorious food, France is a place built for cycling and for eating, too - a country large enough to give any journey an epic quality, but with a bakery on every corner. Here, you can go from beach to mountain, Atlantic to Mediterranean, polder to Pyrenees, and taste the difference every time you stop for lunch. If you make it to lunch, that is… I'm riding in the Cycles of Change Bike-a-thon in June. I'll be doing laps around Lake Merritt for an hour and you can think that attending to people's spiritual and emotional needs, non-denominationally, is a vital part of humanity really into randomness and I like doing things I didn't have to plan myself. These took 2 weeks to make- one

and from the pictures I have of her, I think they'll fit. I have beefy biceps so if it fits me, it's probably This book felt like it took forever, mostly because I was supposed to read it in time for January We Bike Book Club