Foodies right across the county will be mourning Norfolk chef and food champion Richard Hughes, whose sad passing was announced on Monday.
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As readers of my last column will be aware, I have been on a long research tour exploring the gastronomy of France. When you write about food and drink, these are the kind of things you have to do, purely, of course, for the benefit of your readers. You can thank me later.
French president Charles de Gaulle famously once questioned how anyone could govern a country with 246 different varieties of cheese. Actually he was somewhat underestimating: there are well over 1,000 cheeses in France, and last week I was doing my best to taste my way through as many of them as possible at the famous Victor Hugo Market in Toulouse.
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I know that newspaper headlines have an important job to do in terms of engaging readers in an increasingly crowded media environment, and that is perhaps why headline writers sometimes have a habit of using hyperbolic language which can over-dramatise the actual news story in question.
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In another triumph for the PR profession (of which I am a longstanding member), next week has been designated British Sandwich Week, in an attempt to celebrate a foodstuff which this country invented, and yet which we have largely allowed to become a pale and insipid shadow of the dish it could be.
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