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What’s New? NOT Beaujolais Nouveau! Our editors proffer their views.

14/11/2012 By
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  For half a century the practical and business like Beaujolaisians have been dashing into their vineyards in September (regardless of how hot or not the summer has been), picking every Gamay grape in sight, rushing them to the crushers and fermenters in their wineries, tweaking the bubbling brew and when (just about) fermented bottling […]

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Good-for-you Recipe for a Cold Day

09/11/2012 By
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GIGANTES (Butter Beans and Veggies) This is as easy as anything to prepare. It is cheap, jolly tasty and very nourishing, a pleasurable plateful on a cold day. Ingredients for two to four servings, according to the appetites and whether it is the star of the show or supporting cast. 2 tbsps. olive or sunflower […]

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On Opening a New Restaurant during an Apocalypse — Matthew Stowell’s Despatch from Cyprus

09/11/2012 By
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Viva Vadym!   You have to be a man of courage and, some would say, more than a little trella to open a fine dining restaurant of even moderate size in the desolate atmosphere of the current grim economy. Vadym Gruzyn, who has just opened Viva la Vida in Old Limassol (featuring a Mediterranean menu), […]

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MAIN’S RESTAURANT, Yoxford – Review by Patrick Skinner

29/10/2012 By
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You don’t go to Main’s to see and be seen. It’s homely and comfortable rather than smart or trendy. You go to Main’s to eat good honest food, imaginatively conceived, caringly cooked and freshly served. The meals we have had there are the best we have had in Suffolk since we returned to the UK […]

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ALAS, POOR ATHINA — this week’s Mediterranean despatch by Matthew Stowell

29/10/2012 By
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  Athens, like many other urban centres in the world, is a city of contrast. Not, however, as in many Latin American cities (and increasingly in US cities), a contrast that is due to the close juxtaposition of the very rich and the very poor. Certainly, there is more poverty in Athens now than anytime […]

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PASTA LOVELY PASTA — two classics for dinner

22/10/2012 By
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  I like food I can identify when it’s put before me.  It seems to me that Italian cooks are as good as anybody at doing this.  And what a good sight a plate of well sauced pasta is. For the home cook it isn’t a daunting prospect either.  Seeking good classic, easy-to-cook recipes, I […]

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