The knife clinic, held last Thursday, was great fun. Delicious canapes by Daylesford Organic, great demos by Marianne Lumb and Corin Mellor. And I did a bit of Chinese chopping, including spring onion 'fish-eyes', 'flowers' and 'horse ears', 'ox-tongue' slices made from Asian radish, and 'eyebrows' and 'phoenix tails' cut from pig's kidneys.

Illustration on left by Sebastian Wilkinson