Oliver walston biography

Carla Carlisle writes of her friend Oliver Walston, who was often known for 'thinking the unthinkable and saying the unsayable' in the agricultural world of East Anglia.

The quail were split along the breast bone, flattened with a cleaver, dipped in beaten eggs, shaken in a paper bag with flour, pepper and salt and fried in butter and olive oil until tender.

Oliver Walston recovering from stroke - Farmers Weekly

The little birds were then nestled onto a bed of creamy grits oozing with butter.

This was Sunday-morning breakfast for a million listeners on Radio 4’s On Your Farm, back when Farming Today presenter Oliver Walston interviewed farmers in their kitchens. In our case, breakfast was in the 400-year-old barn we had converted into a vineyard restaurant, inspired by my apocalyptic vision of the future of British farming.

Oliver found out about this wild-eyed endeavour after I wrote a one-off column for Big Farm Weekly.

My copies of The New York Oliver Walston - Graham Greene ZYCOF