Passionate About Pie: Calum Franklin Tells All

Calum's culinary experience has come from a lot of hard work and an even more creative mind. We had a chance to interview Calum to get his take on cooking, creativity, and...crust.

Crust.

My grandmother’s chicken and barley Scotch broth.

A temperature probe.

That chicken and barley Scotch broth!

Desserts!

Fried chicken.

Bacon sizzling.

Roast chicken.

My wife! Closely followed by my mother, of course.

Anthony Bourdain.

"Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.”

• The fewer ingredients, generally the better meal. Give flavors a chance to shine.
  


• Buy a temperature probe! Game-changing for cooking meat!
  


• Only put wine in food that you would happily drink. Corked or old wine tastes as bad in food as it does out of a glass.
  


• Always buy the best meat you can afford. If that means eating less of it in the week, than so be it, but you’ll improve your meals and help proper farming in the long run.
  


• Slow roast vegetables rather than boiling in water; you intensify flavor rather than lose it.
  

Well sourced ingredients, cooked simply but carefully, with a lot of pastry!