THOSE WERE THE DAYS – or were they?

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This month: time was when we fortified ourselves with delicious and ridiculously inexpensive local sherries — and some step-by-step delights for your May table. The Heyday of Cyprus Sherry Memory often romanticises events of the past. As an instance I remember the production of a vast range of spirits and liqueurs by Cyprus companies with […]

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Thoughts for Summer Meals

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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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Tiramisu

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Luigi Afelba, more usually simply called “Gino” heads up the animated battery of chefs who cook your meal in front of you at the ‘La Boca’ Italian restaurant at the Columbia Plaza in St, Andrews Street Limassol. Gino loves nothing better than inventing or cooking a special dish, but masterminds the range of popular anti-pasti, […]

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What’s New? NOT Beaujolais Nouveau! Our editors proffer their views.

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  For half a century the practical and business like Beaujolaisians have been dashing into their vineyards in September (regardless of how hot or not the summer has been), picking every Gamay grape in sight, rushing them to the crushers and fermenters in their wineries, tweaking the bubbling brew and when (just about) fermented bottling […]

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WHEELERS – Reviving a famous name, at the Lifeboat Inn, Thornham

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A few weeks ago, browsing through the RSPB Magazine, as one does, I noticed an appealing looking and sounding inn/restaurant /hotel on the Norfolk coast, literally amid a number of nature reserves offering jolly days and nights away. My wife who is not a Twitcher, but enjoys a bit of bird watching, enthused that a […]

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Yakitori

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Cooking Japanese at home…YAKITORI People do make Sushi at home – especially those who don’t trust restaurants to use the freshest ingredients. It is an absorbing process, and it is very well described in an excellent little volume called “The Book of Sushi”. (See picture) I bought my copy from Moufflon some time ago and […]

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