
Our winner: Fiona Maclean
Look out for more information on our winner and the Face of New World blog - coming soon
I've been blogging now for a month or so and I am really enjoying writing about my passions (food, drink, music and theatre). There are oodles of mummy bloggers - but 30% of the population are single! what about us? We use appliances...have disposable income...are early adopters because we have free time, and influencers because we socialise with everyone (not just mummies!). I'd love the chance to blog for you, I'm up to speed with social media and techie stuff and I'm London based
Blog Entry
I am kitchenless. It’s temporary, my living room is being redecorated so most of its content is in the kitchen with just the largest furniture left in situ, wrapped up Christo style. I’m existing in the study on a diet of local café meals, coffee and red wine. That’s got me thinking about the importance of the kitchen for me. Without it I feel emasculated.
Life revolves around the kitchen. Even when not really ‘cooking’, I concoct with whatever food is around. I love cooking for friends and family, people I trust enough to experiment with. And, when I’m here alone, the smell of stock simmering on the stove or a daube cooking slowly in the oven is what makes this place my home rather than a place to sleep.
I’m sure my love-affair comes from childhood. I grew up in a small seaside town, where my dad was the local GP. Our kitchen, was always full of family and friends with mum cooking and preserving things (recipes always from Mrs Beeton or the Radiation New World Cook Book), and the rest of us talking, eating and socialising. To me, the kitchen really is the heart of the home.