This time last week, I was preparing the house for the latest cohort of food writers to arrive. They’d come with a yoga mat, walking shoes, enough wine for two dinners, and a head full of ideas for a book.
As we sat outside, bathed in the evening sunshine, they gave each other what they would soon discover was a ‘sip pitch’, a halting, brief, uncertain…
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