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Saturday 21 November 2009

Goodbye Gourmet

Goodbye Gourmet

by Tilly Culme-Seymour

My Cheshire aunt has literally hundreds of old copies of Gourmet magazine, which she collected from her days as a young bride, and cooked from for shooting parties, Christmases and the family table. As this revered arbiter of good taste closes down after 68 years, I will treasure my own, far more modest collection, and work my way once more through the recipes I earmarked as I flicked through its beautifully-presented pages.

Categories: America , Food and Drink

Stars and Stripes

Stars and Stripes

Sunday, 1st November 2009

Maine lobster rolls, gumbo from Louisiana, Chicagoan deep-pan pizza, New York lox and cream cheese bagels: the multitude of its global influences has led America to become a gastronomic superpower. At SpectatorScoff! we have decided to take a transatlantic detour in the run up to Thanksgiving, celebrating all that is great about American food.

Categories: America , Food and Drink

Winds of Change Blow Through Welsh Gastronomy

Winds of Change Blow Through Welsh Gastronomy

Wednesday, 28th October 2009

by Frank Armstrong

Wales has struggled to gain the kind of gastronomic recognition beyond cheese on toast (Welsh rarebit) that its more vociferous Celtic cousins, the Irish and Scots, have managed to acquire. Frank Armstrong visits the Gwledd Conwy Feast and finds it to provide an excellent showcase for an emerging Welsh food consciousness

Categories: Food and Drink , Wales

A Walk in the Park

A Walk in the Park

Saturday, 24th October 2009

by Tilly Culme-Seymour

'Drinking pink wine in the park must be one of the great pleasures of life.' Tilly Culme-Seymour finds consolation for her friend's lateness at Inn The Park.

Categories: Restaurant review

The Dock Kitchen

The Dock Kitchen

Thursday, 22nd October 2009

by Tom Fraser

The lingering bitterness from the cider and also from the fact that I had paid £4.50 for it was soon negated by the crisp, smooth sweetness of the champagne as its bubbles carried me shoulder-high to my seat at one of The Dock Kitchen’s family-sized pine tables. 

Tom Fraser celebrates an important birthday at The Dock Kitchen.

Categories: Restaurant review

National Apple Day

National Apple Day

Wednesday, 21st October 2009

by Fiona Bird

Fiona Bird celebrates the quintessential British fruit, with a regional, child-friendly recipe for Orange Scottish Pancakes.

Categories: Children's cooking

Congress Quirinale

Congress Quirinale

Wednesday, 21st October 2009

by Violet Hatfields

Westminster on a Saturday evening? Violet Hatfields recommends upmarket Italian Quirinale.

Categories: Restaurant review

In Praise of Junk Chocolate

In Praise of Junk Chocolate

Friday, 16th October 2009

by Violet Hatfields

From Elvis to Clinton, we have seen there is something horribly compelling about junk food. Violet Hatfields writes in praise of “junk chocolate”. 

Categories: Chocolate

Chocolate's Nemesis

Chocolate's Nemesis

Thursday, 15th October 2009

by Sam Thackeray

Chocolate is the all time wine matching pain in the butt. Sam Thackeray relieves our pain.

Categories: Chocolate , Wine

The Grubber

The Grubber

Wednesday, 14th October 2009

by Tilly Culme-Seymour

The Oxford English Dictionary defines a chocoholic as 'A person who is addicted to or very fond of chocolate'.

Tilly Culme-Seymour finds herself unexpectedly in company with Napoleon III and Roald Dahl.

Categories: Chocolate

Willie's World-Class Cacao

Willie's World-Class Cacao

Tuesday, 13th October 2009

by Willie Harcourt-Cooze

Cacao connoisseur Willie Harcourt-Cooze serves up a recipe for his classic chocolate mousse cake.

Categories: Chocolate

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Bitter Lemons

Bitter Lemons

Thursday, 19th November 2009

'It doesn’t matter if the food is brilliant if it’s served by a waiter with a face like a trout sucking a lemon,' argues Sam Thackeray. Restauranteurs and wait staff, look to America for a model of charm and good service.

Red Velvet

Red Velvet

Monday, 9th November 2009

It was earlier this year, that I first began to hear wild rumours of a most fabulous-sounding delicacy: the ‘red velvet cake’, writes Jessica Fellowes.  It sounded like something the gods themselves would eat. Then I read about someone cooking it, and beetroot being the main ingredient. Yuck, I thought. More like something a misguided hippy would eat.

Sap Rising

Sap Rising

Friday, 6th November 2009

So often, I shrink under the wrinkled lip of the aging swede withering at the bottom of the fridge.

A Riverford Organic lunch initiative lightens the burden of a vegetable box delivery, giving Tilly Culme-Seymour some fresh ideas for a creative kitchen.

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Autumn Wine Club Offer

After decades of success with its Good Ordinary Claret (still by far the company’s bestselling wine), Berry Bros & Rudd decided a couple of years ago to move up a notch and produce an Extra Ordinary Claret.

Berry Bros Rudd

Only 99.00

 
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