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THE REAL TEA LADY

01/05/2012 By
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Looking on-line to buy Ceylon tea, I found a lovely website which turned out to be a fascinating story of the enterprise of some young second generation British Cypriots…. Time for Tea….with Some Good Food A couple of hundred years ago, if you’d been able to take a balloon flight following the River Thames westwards […]

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Small Hotels

29/04/2012 By
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There’s a small hotel, By a Wishing Well, I wish that we were there, together… (from a popular song of 1936) If a hotel is tiny, but comfortable, and if it has good food, then, for me, “small is beautiful”. I suppose I would be talking about 50 rooms or less. Mary and I have […]

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A Meal at the Maltings

25/04/2012 By
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A meal at the upper floor restaurant attached to the concert hall at Snape Maltings, or the self-service eatery on a floor below, is an event to remember for several reasons. Firstly, unless you are invited to or are organising a special reception or event, you can only dine there on evenings when there is […]

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Why People Go to Waitrose

24/04/2012 By
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People we have got to know, or bump into, in our new life in the UK, tell us:  “You ought to go to such-and-such a market”, naming various places in the vicinity where “fresh” fruit, veg and produce are available.  The other day I did. I approached a well stocked stall where the proprietor was standing […]

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Olive Tapenade and Muhumarra

24/04/2012 By
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Two lovely, zingy Mediterranean dips…. superb with hot Pitta or a fresh Baguette, as a snack or with some salad a light meal.  With the three other “dips” of my June 10th Post (Hommous, Moutabal (smoky aubergine dip) and Skordalia (Garlic Sauce), you have a delectable quintet of buffet or party openers. Tapenade of Black […]

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Welcome to the Wonderful World of Lentils

24/04/2012 By
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Would you know what a lentil looked like when it was growing? Although they are grown in France, Italy, Egypt, North Africa, India, Canada and the United States, I confess have never seen one growing. In fact the term “lentil” covers quite a wide variety of plant. A lentil is a bean-like seed; a cousin […]

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