The sous-chef has just extracted his summer harvest from the hives. The trick is detailed preparation and delicate choreography: clearing bees from the honey boxes (known as supers), lifting wooden frames of sealed comb to a special tray for removing…
I spent three very happy years in Naples, Italy, as the newest Women’s Royal naval Service Officer (WRNS) around the time of the 1980 earthquake. Michael Dibden’s super detective story, “Cosi Fan Tutti” captures the vibrancy and vigour of the…
Officially on the “Speaker Circuit” this week (see the #YesSheCan website). I’ve loved being in front of an audience all my life: from the Angel Gabriel and Virgin Mary for school and church Nativity plays before I was 11, performing in school…
I’ve been working in the disability field for over 20 years (www.pennymelvillebrown.com/disability-dynamics) but a recent study shows that nothing has substantially changed! The excellent and very thorough research undertaken by University College London here reveals that the employment prospects of…
The Baking Blind mission has always been to showcase the work ambitions and aspirations, competences, and capabilities of people with disabilities. Too often we face the fears of employers. They are fearful of saying the wrong thing, embarrassing themselves or…
Yes, I agree, it should be trades-people but it scanned better this way. I was complaining about the demise of the long cherished cooker (now revitalised) but also the men and women who helped for decades are disappearing as they…
The book, A Cook’s Tour, describes near-disaster cooking Professional MasterChef Champion Steven Edwards’ honey cake and how I managed to make every surface in the San Francisco kitchen sticky. But I still love using the sous-chef’s home-produced honey in many…
Super-moist boiled fruit cake free demonstration 1030 Monday 11 July. Register at: Even blind people can design buildings: three house extensions, a house façade and an internal redesign to my name. I just need someone expert in the materials…
Following publication of the globe-trotting recipe book www.pennymelville-brown.com I’ve been nominated for the National Diversity Awards (lifetime achievement) I can share this apparent accolade without boasting, confident that there’s no chance of winning. My nomination scraped in on the…
The Baking Blind book www.pennymelvillebrown.com has some great chocolate recipes (the easiest French mousse; a wickedly indulgent Australian “mud cake”). Next week’s free on-line demo at 1030 Monday 13 June will star more naughtiness with a vegan chocolate cake and…
