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Delicious Birthday Celebrations in Limassol

18/08/2014 By
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“Joyeux Anniversaire, French Depot!” The French Depot, first opened its doors almost ten years ago in Lemesos’ Old Town near Ayia Napa Church, owned and directed then by Philippe Heron and his wife, who stocked what was then, for Cyprus, a good selection of both inexpensive and Chateaux Bordeaux, as well as wine from other […]

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Cyprus Gourmet – Weekly Page No. 5/2014

13/05/2014 By
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For almost 20 years I wrote for newspapers and magazines in Cyprus, as well as publishing two cook books.  In the past five of those years, in conjunction  with publisher Masis der Parthogh I started the “Cyprus Gourmet” organisation, which had a weekly page in the Cyprus Financial Mirror, its own website and a glossy […]

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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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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

In a Proper Pickle – Capers

08/04/2012 By
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It’s a ritual you don’t see as often as you did a few years ago, but it is good to see the people doing it aren’t just old villagers. The ritual of which I write is the annual assault on the spiky wild plant that grows over so many of our hillsides – the Caper. […]

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