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FLAVOUR OF THE MONTH – FOR 12 YEARS Orexi Catering Goes from Strength to Strength

26/01/2015 By
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      Issue dated 28th. January 2015    As published in Financial Mirror, Nicosia  In 2002, Janet Bureau, a food loving friend who is also a cook of some considerable skill, resident near Limassol invited us to an al fresco lunch of Lebanese food cooked by a young friend of hers. This included traditional favourites like Kibbeh, […]

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ON THE RIGHT LINES – Living, steaming, moving history…

15/10/2014 By
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Earlier this month Mary and I spent a happy week touring around Yorkshire, based on the pleasant spa town of Harrogate.   We were wallowing in nostalgia of a special kind: for old fashioned trains pulled by huffing and chuffing steam engines more than 60 years old. We were part of a group of about 40 […]

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Maltings Musings

16/09/2014 By
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  Older people are expected to grumble about things, so when you do find something to criticise “they” say: ‘There, I told you, he’s a miserable so-and-so’. This is a short preface to one or two less than favourable comments I have this month and to say that most of the time I am a […]

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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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NEW BOOKS, OLD BOOKS and WONDERFUL OLD AEROPLANES

10/02/2014 By
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The lights are on. It’s pretty dark outside. Gloom rules. And it’s just after lunch. January 2014 was wet, wet, wet, and for much of the time we remained in our quarters. There’s a limit to TV watching so in this deep mid-winter books have been even more appreciated than usual. When we moved to […]

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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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