Jeni Barnett

Well, maybe it’s something planetary but today has been weird. Maybe it’s because I knew I had to eat squirrel. Fergus Drennan came up from Herne Bay. He brought with him an assortment of wild herbs and mushrooms and, of course, his dead squirrel. There are various rules about ‘RoadKill’, one being that if you … Read more

It has been a very short month. One minute we were in the Year of the Dog and then Nancy lam and Ken Hom were on the programme and it became Year of the Pig. This year is very auspicious as it’s actually the year of The Golden Pig. I have no idea what this … Read more

At present I am doing a daily food programme called Great Food Live, formerly Good Food Live. Nick Thorogood, now at Channel Five, launched the programme for UKTV Food. I was brought on board not because I knew anything about the gourmet side of things but because I was a pig and enjoyed opening my … Read more