Jane's kitchen is sugar and spice and everything nice
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Welcome to House Call, where we take a look at how people – mostly regular folk like you and me, and some local food heroes – keep their kitchens and dining rooms preened.
Jane Middleton is a freelance cookery book editor and founder of Cinnamon Toast – an elegant, bespoke bakery business based in Bath. She expertly churns out delicate sweet treats ranging from immaculate macaroons of both classic and unusual flavours, to lavender shortbreads and colourful animal-shaped biscuits of varying size, all from the comfort of her modern home kitchen. During our visit, we lusted after her bright and airy conservatory dining room, and ogled bold statement pieces like the slate grey baroque-styled armchair and a pair of Philippe Starck ghost chairs.
Here’s what Jane has to say about her home and her foodie preferences:
Names: Jane Middleton
Location: Bath
Occupation: Cookery book editor, founder of Cinnamon Toast
Must-have kitchen item: Left-handed vegetable peeler
Go-to recipe: Anything by Nigel Slater; Scotch pancakes when the cupboard is bare
You love the taste of: Fish and chips in Yorkshire - they're in a class of their own
Coffee or tea: Tea
Beer or cider: Real ale on draught
Five people you'd invite to your dinner party, dead or alive: Charlie Brooker, Robert Jay, Gloria Steinem, Georges Danton and Kate Moss
The look of your kitchen in three words: Full of people
Kitchen uniform: A coating of icing sugar - there are clouds of it everywhere when I'm baking
Preferred midnight nosh: Toast and marmalade
Your kitchen is awesome because: ... my husband fixes cocktails while I cook
Secret skills: Delegating biscuit designs to my 11-year-old daughter, Lily - she's much better at it than I am
What's on your cooking playlist? Currently Elvis Costello, Little Joy, Regina Spektor, plus Dexy's Midnight Runners' surprisingly good new album
What are you going to cook this weekend? Lots of macaroon shells for the Flavours of the West festival; whatever's in the Riverford veg box
Unexpected item in your kitchen cupboard: Crocodile pâté - my brother-in-law brings it back from South Africa for my son, Luke
Most prized item in the fridge: My mother's cake stand
You can't live without: ... a squeeze of lemon; I add it to virtually everything
Favourite condiment: Does caramel sauce count as a condiment?
If your kitchen could talk it'd say: …probably 'Clean me' after the hammering it's had recently
If you think your home would make a great subject for our House Call series, please email rosa.park@mediaclash.co.uk
By Rosa Park
Images by Rosa Park
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