Rog T Food blog - The anticipation is usually the best bit

 This is a first for me! A blog written at the gym on an exercise bike! What better place to blog about food!

I’m warming up for my session dreaming about the fish and chips I’ll be having later in Harpenden, before we watch Hadley play. There is a lovely chippy there. It got me thinking about how so much of the enjoyment of food is anticipating it. Tonight we will smell the chippy before we even enter the door and by the time it arrives, we’ll doubtless be Hank Marvin! (Starving). 

I think one of the reasons we love fish and chips is the amazing smell of a great chippy. The same is true of a Sunday Roast. You have the best part of an hour to build up your hunger, with delicious aromas. That is why I never have a drink before I sit down to Sunday lunch at home. 

I like to think of a great meal as theatre, at Christmas, the centrepiece is setting the pudding alight. Sadly too many of the meals we eat lack such drama. My advice? Add some fun when you cook for friends and make sure they get a good whiff of the food!

And for the record, the Fish and Chips at Godfrey was delicious!