What I enjoy about Julia Watson's writing on food are not just the recipes which are remarkably easy to do and don't seem to demand the endless exotic ingredients of so many posh Sundays' cookery pages but the fascinating fact packed mini essay on the history or the economics or geography of the particular food she has chosen to write on. This is higher journalism - well researched, factual, and sets the actual recipe in richer, wide context.
What I enjoy about Julia Watson's writing on food are not just the recipes which are remarkably easy to do and don't seem to demand the endless exotic ingredients of so many posh Sundays' cookery pages but the fascinating fact packed mini essay on the history or the economics or geography of the particular food she has chosen to write on. This is higher journalism - well researched, factual, and sets the actual recipe in richer, wide context.