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GARLIC – LOVE IT, HATE IT, YOU CAN’T IGNORE IT!

07/02/2017 By
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                Plump cloves of garlic from my garden in Vouni village. These had been hanging about in my kitchen for a few months and were, in my opinion, as good as garlic gets. Earlier, we had used other cloves when they were fresh and green, imparting a delicious earthy flavour to soup and dressings. […]

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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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GOOD BOOKS, A CURRENT TART AND A DESERT MEMORY

04/04/2017 By
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  A cook book I was browsing yesterday, purchased from a company specializing in “remaindered” items (i.e. publishers’ unsold stock and therefore at a “bargain” price) jogged my Mid-east memory cells and I thought, “Yes, there’s an idea here for this week’s column”. It was in the 1960s. I was in a car on with […]

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HOMING PIGEONS, MILLION DOLLAR RACE-HORSES, CELLARS and VINES

14/05/2017 By
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  For more than 50 years I have taken a camera with me on trips; short ones and long ones. Far more than a diary (especially if captioned properly) photos bring back people and places that have almost faded from memory. Today, of course, keeping a picture collection is easier than it ever was because […]

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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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If Music be the Food of love…….

30/04/2014 By
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On the last Sunday morning of April, with weak sunshine suggesting we should have a walk, we pottered off to Snape Maltings, where we had been the previous evening for a simply beautiful concert. After a stroll out towards the reed beds and a good listen to some of the instrumental and vocal rehearsals going […]

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