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SIX OF THE BEST FROM AROUND THE MED.

16/08/2016 By
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  It was a Frenchman who said: “If there’s no food for you to eat…. you should talk about food”, to which I add, “And if there’s no-one to talk to, read about it”. I am never happier than when I am at my stove – and when I am not, the next best thing […]

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Small Hotels

29/04/2012 By
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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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SOME VIEWS OF SPRING

13/03/2017 By
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  Every year I used to remark to my wife on the shortness of the spring and autumn seasons in Cyprus. “Yes”, she would reply, “You said that last year….. and the year before”. True. Nonetheless, the few weeks of spring provide us with a lot of pleasure, especially the flowering of the almond trees, […]

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The Year that Went

04/01/2016 By
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The older you get the faster the years fly by…. or so it seems, despite doing everything more slowly than one used to. It is our fourth since we returned to England after our two decades resident in Cyprus. Despite now being formally “retired”, we seemed too busy to make a trip to the Island […]

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THIS WEEK’S RECIPE – MEATBALLS

20/02/2017 By
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  Ingredients 60g/2oz fine dry breadcrumbs 125ml/4fl.oz light cream 125ml/4fl.oz water 200g/7oz finely minced lean beef 200g/7oz finely minced lean pork 1½ tsp salt ½ tsp ground allspice 1 small to medium onion peeled and very finely chopped 1 egg, beaten 75g/3oz butter A few grindings of black pepper Method 1 In a bowl mix […]

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VILLAGE VOICE REMEMBERED

08/11/2015 By
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  An Email from a dear friend of our years in a hill village of Cyprus, talking of a well loved taverna keeper, the venerable mukhtar of many years’ standing and various other local personalities, brought back a flood of memories, some of them demonstrating the speed of change in the island in recent years. […]

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