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What’s New? NOT Beaujolais Nouveau! Our editors proffer their views.

14/11/2012 By
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  For half a century the practical and business like Beaujolaisians have been dashing into their vineyards in September (regardless of how hot or not the summer has been), picking every Gamay grape in sight, rushing them to the crushers and fermenters in their wineries, tweaking the bubbling brew and when (just about) fermented bottling […]

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On Opening a New Restaurant during an Apocalypse — Matthew Stowell’s Despatch from Cyprus

09/11/2012 By
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Viva Vadym!   You have to be a man of courage and, some would say, more than a little trella to open a fine dining restaurant of even moderate size in the desolate atmosphere of the current grim economy. Vadym Gruzyn, who has just opened Viva la Vida in Old Limassol (featuring a Mediterranean menu), […]

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Report from the Mediterranean

19/10/2012 By
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  Matthew Stowell takes Ryanair to Greece and finds fish worth the journey We’ve been taking full advantage—while it lasts—of Ryanair’s cheap flights to European countries, most recently to Greece, a land much in need of tourist Euros.  We flew from Paphos to Patras for €24 round trip. (Ryanair flies from UK airports to Patras […]

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Filed Under: Mediterranean Musings

Recipe for cooler evenings – AFELIA

08/10/2012 By
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AFELIA – a stew of pork and potatoes This is a popular dish in Cyprus, the ingredients of which are all widely available in the UK. In the 20 or so years I was putting out recipes in my columns this one occurred every five years or so (show me a cookery writer who doesn’t […]

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Filed Under: Mediterranean Recipes, UK Recipes

THE CYPRUS WE LOVE – by Matthew Stowell Posted 1st October 2012

01/10/2012 By
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Matthew Stowell succeeded me as editor of the Cyprus Gourmet.  If I may say so, he is writing some lovely pieces each week in the Cyprus “Financial Mirror”, whose publisher Masis der Parthogh took over the running of the Cyprus Gourmet (“CG”) operation when I returned to the UK.  Matthew was born in Massachusetts, fifty-something […]

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MEMORABLE MEALS – The Nubian Desert

13/06/2012 By
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In 1982 my company was hired to plan a Land Rover Safari route through the Nubian Desert, up and across the Nile Valley to Khartoum, to plan an itinerary that would take seven days, starting at Aswan in upper Egypt, across Lake Nasser and then through Sudan. The plan was produced but sadly only a […]

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Filed Under: Mediterranean Musings, Memorable Meals
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