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THOUGHTS ON EASTER LAMB

10/03/2015 By

  Coincidentally, as the weather warms and hints of Spring appear, we dedicated eaters start to consider the new season’s lamb. Prompted by a current book of food writing, from the London Daily Telegraph’s archives, I searched my own and found a couple of special lamb recipes, created by the Telegraph’s food writer of forty […]

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TO FRANCE AGAIN…..and why not?

11/07/2015 By

  An invitation to a tasting of some good red Burgundies serves to remind me, at least, that as far as food and wine are concerned, no-one beats the French. Thousands upon thousands of us still make the pilgrimage every year to that lovely country to sample its wares. And they are as good as […]

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Travellers’ Tales – hopefully with a Meal included

04/02/2015 By

           Travelling with a camera wasn’t always a case of slipping it into your hand luggage Whenever I go to a new place, in my own country or abroad, my hopes are: firstly, good food; secondly, good wine; thirdly, a comfortable bed. Ideally a conjunction of all three. I have slept in quite a […]

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VILLAGE VOICE REMEMBERED

08/11/2015 By

  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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WHAT’S FOR DES(S)ERT?

05/12/2016 By

  “And wise men came from the East” Strike slightly south-west from Baghdad and after a long camel ride of something like a thousand kilometres you would come to the little town of Bethlehem. As it seems there was little between them apart from desert, the guidance of a star for the wise men would […]

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Wintry notes on meals enjoyed (and otherwise) in the past year or so…. plus getting to know wine with some help from the late, great John Arlott……. and a gaggle of goodly grub to cook at home….. this is my first 2014 offering.

08/01/2014 By

 My last 12 months’ have hardly reached the epicurean heights, but what I can say is that I have had some jolly good home cooked nosh, firstly because I love cooking and secondly because the ingredients have never been better. One meal we enjoyed almost more than any other was a defrosted half-lobster and some […]

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