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SOME THOUGHTS FOR SUMMER

01/08/2016 By
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Food has been depicted in one art form or another since man first drew or painted images. Likewise ever since he could write, a major literary topic has always been the foods that sustain us. The Romans, Greeks, Persians, Egyptians, Chinese, Indians and many others of ancient times committed gastronomic thoughts to stone, wood or […]

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“WHERE THE FLYING FISHES PLAY”

26/07/2016 By
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Patrick’s BLOG – week ending 30th July 2016 These days the world’s sea foods and fishes travel the globe in frozen or chilled style every day of the year. It used to be quite rare to fly the stuff about. Yonks ago, 1957 to be exact, I worked on a dreadful British film about two […]

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READY, BREADY, GO…..

04/07/2016 By
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  “All sorrows are less with bread. ” ? Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547 – 1616) “Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all                            foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest                                    of feasts.” ? James Beard 1903 – 1985 (American food author) “Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A […]

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Beef Briefs from Further East

20/06/2016 By
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Regular readers will know that I love my food. I enjoy very many kinds of it. This is not to say I am a glutton. I am fortunate in that my disposition is to eat in moderation. As for preferences, I lean very much eastwards – to the Levant to start with, and then to […]

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JUNE – Books for Cooks, Chicken Recipes and Eating Out in Limassol

05/06/2016 By
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  These two books have been around for some years (both can be found in both new and good used condition on the Internet – but I bought mine from Moufflon Bookshop in Nicosia in the 1990s) They combine recipes, anecdote and commentary to an excellent degree. I love them both, browse them regularly and […]

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MAY TRAVEL FEATURE

23/05/2016 By
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  From my travel files ……. A Tour of IRAN One morning in the early 1970s a slightly scruffy letter arrived in my public relations company in London. It was clearly a duplicated one, sent to a number of companies like ours – from the tourism attaché of the Iranian Embassy. The brief message enquired […]

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