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Thoughts on… where we are going
Thoughts on… where we are going I’ve decided to totally embrace “Small Is Beautiful”, a philosophy and way of life brought to us by the British economist E. F. Schumacher. The phrase “Small Is Beautiful” came from his teacher Leopold Kohr, and is often used to champion small, appropriate technologies that are believed to empower people […]
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How stupid do some magazine publishers think consumers are? Once every three months or so I get a call from someone in the sales team at a local free magazine. “Mr Cobb,” they say, “We have an amazing, one-off promotion that we know your business won’t want to miss out on.” The premise of what […]
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Tags: food, honesty, integrity, publishing, recycling, reviews, success
We now are beginning to use recipe books as inspiration rather than as a manual showing us how to cook. In the 19th century, Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management, for example, was the one book many households had. When we got to the 1950s it was the Good Housekeeping Cookery Book: The Cook’s Classic […]
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Tags: cookery books, food, Heston Blumenthal, imagination, inspiration, Mrs Beeton, recipe books
Thoughts on… Customer care
Customer care to us is about doing our best not to kill or harm our customers with food that we know uses ingredients that will do damage to humans, our community or the environment. You may think that our lofty position on the moral high ground must be constantly giving us nosebleeds, but it’s not […]
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Tags: apple juice, customer care, ethical, local, Lyme Regis, North Perrott Fruit Farm, seasonal
Thoughts on… Family eating
This little boy’s Saturday morning was all about peeling a boiled egg. He sat on one of our benches, concentrating and peeling away while his grandfather sat opposite him, just watching, and the rest of his family were off making toast. He didn’t need any help, and it didn’t matter to us if he made […]
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Tags: children, eggs, family, food, high chairs
Last night I made steak and mushroom pie for the two of us. It took me four hours, from making the pastry until it actually made it to the table. Four bloody hours! There are tons of other things I could have been doing, and a whole list-full of stuff I probably should have been […]
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