March Issue…… Nigel Slater’s New Book….. One Pan Dinners…… and Stolen Chickens

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  BOOK REVIEW “A Year of Good Eating” Duck with Udon Noodles…Agnello Rapido….Lentils with Cous Cous… Roast Chicken with Lime and Mint…. A menu from a new international restaurant? Some of my dream dishes? No – just a few of 250+ recipes in a just-published volume of gorgeous grub. Read on. The British seem to […]

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Swedish Lunch at “The Bell”

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Jonny Nicolson, The Bell at Sax’s ebullient and enterprising chef-proprietor seems to add and more strings to his culinary bow as the weeks go by. Among a variety of events and occasions he has organised in his tenure is a themed monthly lunch. To date, among others, we have sampled Lebanese, Greek, French and Swiss […]

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My Book gets its First Review…

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E-book published through Amazon – £4.99 From time to time I have featured in these pages what I would term “Notes from Limassol”, contributed by an old friend, whose pen name is Charalambous.  He has just written to me: “I enjoyed your book which I loaded on my kindle. It is quite an amazing saga, […]

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The Year that Went

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The older you get the faster the years fly by…. or so it seems, despite doing everything more slowly than one used to. It is our fourth since we returned to England after our two decades resident in Cyprus. Despite now being formally “retired”, we seemed too busy to make a trip to the Island […]

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Roll up! Roll up! For a slice of RETRO

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  Ably assisted by my daughter Susanna, who is a wiz with Internet publishing and my son Robert who is highly expert with websites, I have launched my first non-food book, a bit of autobiography in fact. It takes the reader back quite a few years – more than 75 – and tells what it […]

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VILLAGE VOICE REMEMBERED

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  An Email from a dear friend of our years in a hill village of Cyprus, talking of a well loved taverna keeper, the venerable mukhtar of many years’ standing and various other local personalities, brought back a flood of memories, some of them demonstrating the speed of change in the island in recent years. […]

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