Small Hotels

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There’s a small hotel, By a Wishing Well, I wish that we were there, together… (from a popular song of 1936) If a hotel is tiny, but comfortable, and if it has good food, then, for me, “small is beautiful”. I suppose I would be talking about 50 rooms or less. Mary and I have […]

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Why People Go to Waitrose

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People we have got to know, or bump into, in our new life in the UK, tell us:  “You ought to go to such-and-such a market”, naming various places in the vicinity where “fresh” fruit, veg and produce are available.  The other day I did. I approached a well stocked stall where the proprietor was standing […]

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PASTA – how should it be cooked?

At a lunch-time “do” not long ago, I happened to chum up with a visiting Italian food and wine writer. The five-star hotel’s buffet was excellent and we both enjoyed an excellent array of hors d’oeuvres before sizing up the pasta bar, where there was a good selection of sauces to match with four or […]

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Burmese BAR-B-Q – or a Munch in Mynanmar

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Well-travelled and experienced trencherman, Francis Geldart, who is resident in the foothills of the Troodos, Cyprus, from time to time wrote for me about pleasures of the table at local eating places.  But he loves far-eastern food and he is prepared to travel some distance – well beyond Limassol, for instance – to get it. […]

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Among my gastronomic memories a meal we had 13 years ago stands out – I often remember it and smile. This is my report at the time, published in the Cyprus Mail. Around the dinner table this week we got to talking about memorable meals and one of our sons said of such occasions that […]

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The Pullman Car from Worthing

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So often I am asked which have been my most memorable meals. I often disappoint the questioner.   I recall so many, but mostly they were not at banquets or Michelin-starred restaurants. Instead a moment or an incident etched a meal on my mind. One that vividly stands out was taken long ago in 1966 on […]

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