Giving a pig’s head a clean shave with one of my husband’s disposable razors is not what I had expected as part of my cooking prep — and yet that is exactly what I find myself doing during the week I try cooking like my granny, a gentleman farmer’s wife.
It’s all thanks to a controversial remark by French trade minister Olivia Grégoire, who advised the French population suffering from the cost of living crisis to save money by ‘cooking