A rainy afternoon. It is many months since I have watched the rain fall for most of the day and happily it has coincided with a day I had set aside as Recovery Day after three weeks of in-studio photographic shoots for my new book.  Exciting and scary to taste my creations be cooked by two splendid cooks (thanks Jenny and Ben) and then become beautiful photographs under the talented hands of Carolyn Velik and Armelle Habib.  To know that only I could change the quantities and method, and know that only I will be held responsible if the recipes do not work for a fabled, but often-quoted Mrs Jones.  Now the text has left my hands after I made some minute adjustments and I must wait…

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