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Lunch in a Bower

01/04/2012 By

It was Sunday, and I had woken up with an urge for grilled chicken and fried potatoes. Nothing could dispel it. However hard I tried imagining a healthy bowl of salad or a really decadent sandwich, grilled chicken and potatoes was all I had on my mind. I was on my own, but I detest […]

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Memorable Mealtime Moments, and a classic recipe for Stuffed Cabbage

10/10/2016 By
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  In writing these notes, I realised that all the items I mention are still as popular today as they were 50 or more years ago. As the French say: “Plus ça change…” I was a kid during World War 2 (WWII) and, like everyone else, first endured and then made the best of the […]

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PLENTY TO BEEF ABOUT

22/02/2013 By
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  There’s this poor old nag, who’s worked on a farm in deepest Romania all his life, but can’t work anymore. So he’s shipped off by lorry to a meat factory many hundreds of miles away in the South of France, along with a lot of his mates, where he’s slaughtered and cut into chunks. […]

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Salad Days

10/04/2017 By
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  I don’t know about you, dear reader, but as the days heat up I want to spend less time in the kitchen slaving over a hot stove. So I look to quick and easy recipes that will please me and those around my table. And what could be simpler than the two above? On […]

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THE CYPRUS WE LOVE – by Matthew Stowell Posted 1st October 2012

01/10/2012 By
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Matthew Stowell succeeded me as editor of the Cyprus Gourmet.  If I may say so, he is writing some lovely pieces each week in the Cyprus “Financial Mirror”, whose publisher Masis der Parthogh took over the running of the Cyprus Gourmet (“CG”) operation when I returned to the UK.  Matthew was born in Massachusetts, fifty-something […]

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THE ENDURING TUREEN

03/05/2013 By
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  Mary and I salute a friend of more than 20 years who is returning home on May 6th. to Vouni, the Cyprus hill village where we also had our home for many years. Kari Seilo has come through many weeks of surgery and post-operative therapy and has been judged well enough to go home […]

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