1. This is probably the best Italian cookbook I've ever come across. I like this book because Locatelli talks about why he enjoys eating and preparing food. His recipes are straightforward (mostly) and include instructions like "When you feel you are almost there...." (about making risotto). The book is full of passionate and loving descriptions of ingredients, and buying them and fiddling with them. The photographs are very generous and sensual. The images of handsome, proud suppliers particularly at the beginning of the book was enough for me to take it home just for the pictures. This one is a keeper.
2. Bacon sandwiches on Friday morning in the office is up there with my very favourite things in life which also remind me how very fortunate I am to be here. We usually go across the road to Sannies on George Hudson Street. They have recently moved two doors down into a new shop. It's very clean and bright now, but that's OK. Actually there is really nothing especially remarkable about this place except that it is absolutely honest. There are no frills. I went with an order for eight or ten people so I had to wait for a while as the sandwiches were being prepared. There was a queue out of the door, of workmen mostly, it was fantastic eye-candy entertainment for a Friday morning. The waitress flirted with one of them in particular, he blushed very appealingly.
3. The forget-me-nots are in full bloom in our garden which seems so appropriate this week.
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