Following my recent blog in which I lamented the difficulty of obtaining decent bacon from the shops, I was very touched to receive a brown paper parcel from Marie Willey, the co-proprietor of Old Town in Holt, containing a small package of the best black treacle bacon from Allards in Bull Street. But Marie needn’t fret, because I can now get bacon as well as Merguez sausages every Sunday from Wapping Market, where Jacob’s Ladder, a farm in the Ashdown Forest, have set up a stall normally only to be found at Druid Street:
Francis Bacon, jambon francais
£24 a kilo! Don’t tell our bacon-making butcher in Eynsham, please, Charles.