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Report from the Mediterranean

19/10/2012 By
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  Matthew Stowell takes Ryanair to Greece and finds fish worth the journey We’ve been taking full advantage—while it lasts—of Ryanair’s cheap flights to European countries, most recently to Greece, a land much in need of tourist Euros.  We flew from Paphos to Patras for €24 round trip. (Ryanair flies from UK airports to Patras […]

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Filed Under: Mediterranean Musings

GRAINS OF SENSE ….. Organic Flour from Kelsale ….. by The SuffolkEater

12/10/2012 By
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You can’t always get to a farm shop – for some people the cost in petrol precludes frequent visits and others, of course, don’t necessarily drive or have a car. So the next best thing is to look closely at the produce in your local supermarket for regionally or, better still, locally produced foods. Since […]

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Recipe for cooler evenings – AFELIA

08/10/2012 By
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AFELIA – a stew of pork and potatoes This is a popular dish in Cyprus, the ingredients of which are all widely available in the UK. In the 20 or so years I was putting out recipes in my columns this one occurred every five years or so (show me a cookery writer who doesn’t […]

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Filed Under: Mediterranean Recipes, UK Recipes

From Russia with Wine – by Matthew Stowell, Editor “Cyprus Gourmet”

07/10/2012 By
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  Admittedly, Russia isn’t the first region that springs to mind when we are asked to name our favourite wine countries. Or even the tenth. I’ve always assumed that Russians drank only vodka—morning, noon and night. But as I’ve recently come to learn, there is some excellent wine being produced in Russia that will soon […]

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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 DAY WAR BROKE OUT” September 3rd.

03/09/2012 By
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On this day 73 years ago, rising nine years old, I was standing in the gloomy parlour of a somewhat bleak farmhouse in Devon, with my sixteen year old sister and our mother watching the farmer tune in his radio, a large brown plywood cased affair, powered by an “Accumulator”. It was coming up to […]

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