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TO FRANCE AGAIN…..and why not?

11/07/2015 By
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  An invitation to a tasting of some good red Burgundies serves to remind me, at least, that as far as food and wine are concerned, no-one beats the French. Thousands upon thousands of us still make the pilgrimage every year to that lovely country to sample its wares. And they are as good as […]

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Thoughts for Summer Meals

29/06/2015 By
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  As the temperature rises, so does the urge to sit at a shaded café table, overlooking blue, blue sea and contemplating a cool glass of chilled Xynisteri, whilst considering the menu. Or, if you want the wine to wait for the food, a non-alcoholic refresher. I have just the thing. HONEY DEW LEMONADE Ingredients […]

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BUKRA FI MISH MISH

01/06/2015 By
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Memories flooded back as I turned the pages of this food and family orientated book. It is many years since I visited Damascus, and indicative of this is that back then, in the 1960s, I, an Englishman, drove by myself to and through the city several times on return trips from Beirut to Amman, in […]

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MARROWS LARGE, MARROWS SMALL, MARROWS LIKE A CANNON BALL.

29/05/2015 By
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Long ago and far away, newly married, on a glorious summer Sunday day,after attending a conference in the north of England my wife and drove south, homewards.  We had booked lunch in the countryside near Cambridge at a then famous small restaurantrun by a brilliant, but irascible Frenchman. After a simple but truly memorable meal […]

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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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CLASSIC

20/04/2015 By
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“Forming part of the permanent cultural achievement of mankind”. This is one of Webster’s Dictionary’s definitions of the word “Classic”. It is the one I like, because it so perfectly encompasses good food and timeless recipes. When I taste a perfect Moussaka I opine that it is a classic dish of Cyprus. Alas, as with […]

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