This is a bit of a cheat for a blog as I haven’t cooked up anything except a couple of podcasts.  A little while ago, I was down in Bath with Amanda Foreman who was giving a talk and recording the Blackwells podcast with the lovely George Miller.  Being a multi-tasking sort of chap, he recorded one with me about Great Food at the same time.  It’s up on the website - no. 58.  http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/jsp/editorial/browse/podcasts/podcasts_index.jsp

This one was done for The Guardian, a day after I did a talk at Foyles.  I took in various bits of historic cake and chatted about them with Claire Armitstead and Kathryn Hughes, who was there for - as Claire said - some “intellectual oomph”.  She has so much in some ways I wish I’d just sat there and taken notes…

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2011/sep/09/cookery-books-9-11-stories

I think I sound a bit eccentric to be honest; but perhaps that’s because I am.