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MEMORABLE MEALS – The Nubian Desert

13/06/2012 By
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In 1982 my company was hired to plan a Land Rover Safari route through the Nubian Desert, up and across the Nile Valley to Khartoum, to plan an itinerary that would take seven days, starting at Aswan in upper Egypt, across Lake Nasser and then through Sudan. The plan was produced but sadly only a […]

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Filed Under: Mediterranean Musings, Memorable Meals

MEDITERRANEAN DIPS FOR SUMMER

08/06/2012 By
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As I write the rain is spilling down and the wind almost blowing a gale, to the point where I am wondering how much further the neighbour’s silver birch tree can bend over.  But there must be some summer on the way sometime, so I thought I’d pick out some very good party or buffet/starter […]

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Filed Under: Mediterranean Recipes, UK Recipes

A Bite After the Auction

06/06/2012 By
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Good pull up for tired auction attenders at Wickham Market…..   Of a Monday, those with a day off, retirement time in hand or ladies who have a free hour or two often hie themselves to Abbotts Auction rooms at Campsea Ashe, a hamlet a few miles north of Woodbridge. Also present will be a number […]

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Filed Under: Eating Out

152 Restaurant, Aldeburgh

31/05/2012 By
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  By The SuffolkEater 152 Restaurant, has now been around close on ten years. For almost all of that time Chris Selby held sway in the kitchen. He left in the last week of May and his successor rattling the pans is Wayne Tong, whose cooking Eastward Ho! has yet to sample. The review, therefore, […]

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Filed Under: Eating Out, The SuffolkEater

The Plough & Sail, Snape Maltings.

21/05/2012 By
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  When we heard that twin brother chefs Alex  (ex-Regatta, Aldeburgh) and Oliver Burnside (formerly Chef at the Crown & Castle, Orford) are now running things, we were intrigued.  It ought to be good my wife and I thought    We hadn’t been since May 2010, following a snack lunch of considerable poorness.  We said then: […]

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Filed Under: Eating Out

COMMENT – HAVE A NICE BESPOKE DAY – ENJOY !

15/05/2012 By
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  Fashionable Words and Phrases In a good eating place a few nights ago, where the chef knows his stuff – a little on the heavy side, perhaps , but worth the visit – and the young staff efficient and attentive, we were asked “Is your starter alright?”, “How are you Mains?”, “Is the dessert […]

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