• Aga in America

where am I?

  • 02 April 2009 15:53

    A very special relationship

    I'm now back at the kitchen table having taken some Canadian and American journalists around the Cotswolds. It's truly enchanting to see one's country through somebody else's eyes. Both visits began at Eckington Manor Cookery School and this week's kicked off with an evening of Italian Cookery. Chef Dean Coles cooked up course after course on the AGA, which included seafood risotto and delicious chicken wrapped in sage and pancetta.

    My guests, Amy Elbert and Stephen Exel from Traditional Home magazine were suitably impressed by the AGA's cooking prowess and have spent today cooking on AGAs themselves.

    While Barack Obama gave the Queen a gift of an iPod, I like to think we've given our American visitors something a little more enduring, in showing them just why it is that Britain loves the AGA.

    Back at home things have been a little trying, my poor black Labrador, Ziggy has managed to ingest some poison and has turned bright yellow. 
    Having spent a night at the vets he's been sent home on a strict diet of roast chicken and steamed fish with brown rice, while his liver recovers.

    Never one to do things by halves, I've decided to batch cook enough chicken to get us through the week and I currently have two chickens cooking in the roasting oven and another two finishing off in the simmering oven of my own AGA. Our two cats and sausage dog are looking a little put out at Ziggy's special treatment and are now forming an orderly queue by the AGA in the hope of being given a small treat.

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