Category: Food & Drink

Walking the Streets

  In Paris on Monday it was 15C and the sun was out. We walked from near the Palais Garnier to the base of the Eiffel Tower. May I digress and tell you that sentence has the names of two architects with structures named after them. This is not as usual as you might think.… Continue reading Walking the Streets

Serendipity

I am very fond of foie gras the production of which is illegal in many countries; generally ones that did not produce foie gras.

Classic French Cuisine

Like The Guardian I have poor circulation and get cold feet. Wool slippers with rubber soles are the answer.

Turkish Delight

There has been a tube strike this week, presenting an opportunity to visit neglected local restaurants for lunch.

Eat, Drink, Shop

Arrive in a lofty atrium with a bar and shopping, then totter up a broad staircase to the first floor where another shop melds seamlessly into an Italian restaurant.

Out to Lunch

Some good Italian and French restaurants in London close in August – so like Paris.

Baltic Booze

Cast your mind back to 1608. James I was on the English throne – the first Stuart monarch – the Moores were living at Barmeath and the Bellews at Lisrenny.

Olivier Salad

Look at Wikipedia, actually don’t I have done it for you, and there is a long list of comestibles and drinks named after people. Only a few are familiar today: peach Melba, tournedos Rossini, beef Wellington, oysters Rockefeller, beef Carpaccio, omelette Arnold Bennett, Bellini cocktails and you will know others.

Blueberry Hill

More and more fruit and veg is grown in the UK. I wash foreign fruit because it is widely accepted the pickers piss on it. I don’t wash blueberries from Harry Hall’s farm in Surrey. I put them on yogurt and muesli most mornings.They are just about the only healthy food I eat; low in… Continue reading Blueberry Hill