Drizzle this on your artisan.

[hirez]

"This is fine dining now, so Steve must remove the outer skin from each individual pea." Meades on fine form.

"Hardly anyone still lives in former rolling stock." I missed this the first time round. Bang on and no mistake.

Comments

[mr_tom]

That peeling peas thing isn't a joke - the chef two doors down from my folks' place does that.

I'm not entirely sure why, though

[inulro]

Those are both brilliant - but they would be. Even when I disagree with Meades, he's brilliant.

[reddragdiva]

It struck me on holiday in what you call "countryside" that pretty much every square inch of England is curated, whereas bits of Australia a few hours' drive out of the city ... aren't.

[hirez]

Oh, completely. I came across this ( http://www.aeonmagazine.com/nature-and-cosmos/hugh-thomson-britain-forests-myth/ ) only today, which pushes the notion of an unspoiled countryside even further back into history.

I think I would like a copy of 'The history of the countryside', but not at Amazon money.

Actually, I begin to wonder if that was the thing that freaked me out about northern Wisconsin/Upper Peninnsula - I grew up where there were signs of people from the Neolithic onwards. It was just all... there. A set of objects that were the result ot projecting something like four-dimensional tree rings onto a three-dimensional space.

Or maybe I just didn't dig quite so much brown wood panelling. It was like driving through 'That seventies show'

[reddragdiva]

Yeah, you'd get that effect in the more sparsely populated American states too, though not quite as readily in the older ones.