The Hungry Poet: A Life in Food - Andrew Jamison's Culinary Journey 2/2

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The Hungry Poet: My Life in Food — Chicken and Mushroom Pot Noodle

Chicken and Mushroom Pot Noodle There are some statistics we may have wished to have recorded about our lives. Indeed some people do and every now again we see a scientist pop up and say that the average human sleeps for such-and-such a percentage of their lives. I’d love to have kept a record of the amount books I’ve read, and their titles, but I guess there comes a point when life’s just too short to count up these things. At any rate, there are also some statistics we w

The Hungry Poet: My Life in Food

Andrew Jamison

Aug 192 min read

The Hungry Poet: My Life in Food — Wheaten Biscuits

Wheaten Biscuits There were always wheaten biscuits. In a tin. Up in the corner cupboard. In a Tupperware container. Probably going slightly soft because they were slightly off. In fact as I write this, across Northern Ireland there will be hundreds if not thousands of wheaten biscuits slowly losing their crunch in sealed plastic containers in cupboards, brought for visitors, returned to their boxes, only to be brought out duly once more for the next and the process to rep

The Hungry Poet: My Life in Food

Andrew Jamison

Aug 132 min read

The Hungry Poet: A Life in Food — Dairylea Triangles

Dairylea Triangles In the realms of processed cheese, there were five big players: The Kraft Cheese Slice, The Babybel, Cheese Strings, Primula (cheese ‘spread’ which came in a toothpaste shaped tube) and, last but not least, The Dairylea Triangle. The Dairylea Triangle was rivalled by The Laughing Cow triangle, but Dairylea was the connoisseur’s choice (unless they were on offer at the supermarket). And there were always Dairylea Triangles at Gaggy’s. When it came to fo

The Hungry Poet: My Life in Food

Andrew Jamison

Aug 72 min read

The Hungry Poet: My Life in Food — Mint Chocolate Cornetto

The serialisation of Andrew Jamison's prose nonfiction memoir.

The Hungry Poet: My Life in Food

Andrew Jamison

Aug 22 min read

The Hungry Poet: My Life in Food — Gaggy's Roast Potatoes and Granda's Greenhouse

The prose nonfiction serialisation by Andrew Jamison, exclusively for paid subscribers.

The Hungry Poet: My Life in Food

Andrew Jamison

Jul 252 min read

The Hungry Poet: My Life in Food — Angel Delight; Fig Rolls

Angel Delight Ultra-processed food is one of the great ills of our time (and for good reason) but whatever Angel Delight was or still is, I don’t really care – it was, indeed, sent from above and I could have eaten an entire bucket of it. Banana, strawberry or chocolate, I would have any of them. If I had to choose, I would have picked chocolate, which my mother, if she was feeling fancy, would decorate with Jaffa tinned orange segments (a chocolate orange experience non

The Hungry Poet: My Life in Food

Andrew Jamison

Jul 172 min read

The Hungry Poet: My Life in Food — Mince and Potatoes

Mince and Potatoes ‘The Child is the father of the man’, wrote Wordsworth, and in my case what fed the child was mince and potatoes. I’m not here to make it sound exciting or delicious; it wasn’t really – it was functional, cheap and pretty much of all of us always ate it because we had to. I can’t think of any better place to start than mince and potatoes. Mince and potatoes was what we always had. It was what my mother would make from usually ‘half a poun’ of mince beef

The Hungry Poet: My Life in Food

Andrew Jamison

Jul 104 min read

EXCLUSIVE - The Hungry Poet: My Life in Food - Introduction

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The Hungry Poet: My Life in Food

Andrew Jamison

Jul 44 min read

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The Hungry Poet: My Life in Food — Chicken and Mushroom Pot Noodle

The Hungry Poet: My Life in Food — Wheaten Biscuits

The Hungry Poet: A Life in Food — Dairylea Triangles

The Hungry Poet: My Life in Food — Mint Chocolate Cornetto

The Hungry Poet: My Life in Food — Gaggy's Roast Potatoes and Granda's Greenhouse

The Hungry Poet: My Life in Food — Angel Delight; Fig Rolls

The Hungry Poet: My Life in Food — Mince and Potatoes

EXCLUSIVE - The Hungry Poet: My Life in Food - Introduction

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