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…
It was a super long Bank Holiday weekend: a jazz afternoon at Catisfield Memorial Hall amongst many friends and neighbours for our community Jubilee event. A signed copy of my bookwww.pennymelvillebrown.com was an early prize in the tombola (apparently…
Calling all cooks (sighted or not). The next on-line demo on Monday 13 June at 1030 is wickedly featuring chocolate: a vegan cake and indulgent brownies. You can join us for free at: Facebook: Eventbrite: My guest that…
A special day for sharing the book launch video and refining the Brownie recipe ready for the next on-line demo. Did you try anything different or new? Perhaps, next year, we can make more of the international event. Talking…
Hampshire’s Penny Melville-Brown is whipping up a batch of brownies to mark World Baking Day on 17 May. The delicious cakes will feature in her next on-line demonstration for other visually impaired people across the county in June. Author of…
Hampshire’s Penny Melville-Brown is whipping up a batch of brownies to mark World Baking Day on 17 May. The delicious cakes will feature in her next on-line demonstration for other visually impaired people across the county in June. Author of…
It must be over a year since the essential plate warmer on my venerable and near-vintage cooker gave up the ghost. Of course, in this throw-away economy, getting a replacement part was impossible. What manufacturer expects wildly expensive kit to…
