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My pleasure – but as I said, I can't claim credit for the recipe. Well, Christmas comes but once a year etc. ;) Indeed. :) I wouldn't disagree with the sentiment.

What an interesting series of questions, Stewart. I'm a journalist, so have had a lot of work published over the years – sport (for which I have won an award) and numerous other genres, but particularly trade union-related work. The reason that I mentioned the award is because it allows me...

The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford Semi-autobiographical novel from the literary Mitford sister, this tells the story of an upper-class, landed English family between the wars, concentrating on the romantic exploits of one daughter, Linda, who is partly based on the author herself...

Happy Sol Invictus, everyone. May it be an appropriately merry one!

That's essentially already been answered more than once already in this thread. You make the effort to ensure that you purchase meat that has been produced in an ethical way – this includes (obviously) not including having animals pumped up with hormones. It's no different to ensuring that...

Can't claim it for my own – it's from Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course. But in essence I took approximately 500g of chicken liver, leaned it up and then sautéd it in around 50g unsalted butter for about five minutes. Tip that into a food processor and add about 25g more butter to the pan...

Scouse Mouse by George Melly The first volume of George Melly's memoirs, set between the wars in Liverpool, makes for fascinating and highly entertaining reading – not for any great infant escapades on the part of this late lamented jazz musician, but because he creates such a vivid picture...

Oops. Anyway, I've just this afternoon made some paté, with organic chicken livers from a farmer that I know quite well. It'll be excellent stuff and it's been made with excellent produce, produced ethically. Interestingly (if as a slight aside), I was reading an article at the weekend that...

Hang on – so what your mother (possibly) fed you as an infant was not "natural"? Now you know what Oscar Wilde said about temptation: "the only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it".

Live from Golgotha by Gore Vidal Well, I leapt in to try some Vidal and this was one of two that I selected. The story of Timothy, early father of the Christian church, and 'Saint' (Paul), and some time travel and the fight between TV companies to go back and film the crucifixion and ... An...