Maltings Musings

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  Older people are expected to grumble about things, so when you do find something to criticise “they” say: ‘There, I told you, he’s a miserable so-and-so’. This is a short preface to one or two less than favourable comments I have this month and to say that most of the time I am a […]

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COURGETTE MASTER CLASS

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  When I was a kid, they called them “Baby Marrows”. They were new fangled things and my mother avoided them, as most people did, preferring the full grown variety, measuring something like 35 – 40 cms in length. They were peeled, cut down the middle, seeds removed, cut in chunks and boiled. Yes, boiled, […]

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Delicious Birthday Celebrations in Limassol

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“Joyeux Anniversaire, French Depot!” The French Depot, first opened its doors almost ten years ago in Lemesos’ Old Town near Ayia Napa Church, owned and directed then by Philippe Heron and his wife, who stocked what was then, for Cyprus, a good selection of both inexpensive and Chateaux Bordeaux, as well as wine from other […]

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CAPITAL! Cyprus’s Longest Serving 5-star Hotel and its long-serving Chef.

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The Cyprus Hilton and I go back quite a long time – to 1968, in fact, when on a flying visit from Beirut I first enjoyed a coffee in its very pleasant lobby lounge, not long after it opened. In the 1970s and 80s we partook of lunch, dinner and an overnight stay now and […]

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Cyprus Food Heroes

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Cyprus Gourmet – Weekly Page No. 5/2014

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For almost 20 years I wrote for newspapers and magazines in Cyprus, as well as publishing two cook books.  In the past five of those years, in conjunction  with publisher Masis der Parthogh I started the “Cyprus Gourmet” organisation, which had a weekly page in the Cyprus Financial Mirror, its own website and a glossy […]

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