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MARROWS LARGE, MARROWS SMALL, MARROWS LIKE A CANNON BALL.

29/05/2015 By
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Long ago and far away, newly married, on a glorious summer Sunday day,after attending a conference in the north of England my wife and drove south, homewards.  We had booked lunch in the countryside near Cambridge at a then famous small restaurantrun by a brilliant, but irascible Frenchman. After a simple but truly memorable meal […]

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Filed Under: Diary, Eating In, Mediterranean Recipes, The Cyprus Gourmet

HOT and SWEET

19/05/2015 By
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I see that I am about to complete 20 years on the chain-gang of writing a weekly food-and-drink page in Cyprus newspapers (I anticipate a flood of congratulatory Emails) Before the summer of 1995 I had “cut my teeth” so to speak with several years of monthly writings in newspapers or magazines. My first weekly […]

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CLASSIC!

23/04/2015 By
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“Forming part of the permanent cultural achievement of mankind”. This is one of Webster’s Dictionary’s definitions of the word “Classic”. It is the one I like, because it so perfectly encompasses good food and timeless recipes. When I taste a perfect Moussaka I opine that it is a classic dish of Cyprus. Alas, as with […]

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CLASSIC

20/04/2015 By
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“Forming part of the permanent cultural achievement of mankind”. This is one of Webster’s Dictionary’s definitions of the word “Classic”. It is the one I like, because it so perfectly encompasses good food and timeless recipes. When I taste a perfect Moussaka I opine that it is a classic dish of Cyprus. Alas, as with […]

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Filed Under: Diary, Mediterranean Recipes

GETTING TO KNOW YOUR FELLOW CITIZENS

07/04/2015 By
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Review – “Sax Stories” by Belinda Moore This slim, well presented book offers profiles of forty citizens of Saxmundham, many of them with photographs. They are a good cross-section of the populace and a helpful and enjoyable introduction for the shorter term residents of the town, like myself and my wife (a mere three and […]

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FROM DUBAI TO PHILADELPHIA….CYPRUS FOOD IS “IN”

30/03/2015 By
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  This issue of “Cyprus Gourmet”  was  published on Wednesday April 1st.  No fooling! Many of my readers will remember John Wood from his days as general manager of the Le Meridien Hotel, Limassol. That was when he and I crossed paths quite frequently: wine tastings, the annual Beaujolais Nouveau bash (I thought Le Meridien’s […]

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Filed Under: Diary, Mediterranean Recipes, The Cyprus Gourmet, Weekly Edition Published in Cyprus Tagged With:
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