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Sunday 27 May 2012

Five Best Malt Whiskies

by Jonathan Ray

I came to malt whisky late and have been making up for lost time ever since.

Christmas Drinks Diary

Saturday, 4th December 2010

by Marcin Miller

A selection of Christmas drinks for the optimum Yuletide experience.

Categories: Christmas drinks

Restaurant reviews. This issue: Eddie likes mayo with his chips, but only if he can have ketchup too. Violet is feeling very austere. Nobody sings for their supper quite like Chris. Will Prefers a napkin in the collar to a napkin on the lap.

Categories: Brunswick House Caf� Lassco , DinTaiFung , Le Caf� Anglais , Quo Vadis

Taste Test: British Cheese

Saturday, 4th December 2010

by Dan Jellinek

In the perfect setting of Paxton & Whitfield, Jermyn Street — a magical, aromatic Aladdin’s cave, Nirvana for mice — our panel sliced, crumbled, sniffed, tasted — and attempted to describe.

Categories: British cheese , British food , Cheese

Titbits and Crumbs

Saturday, 4th December 2010

by Tilly Culme-Seymour

Miscellaneous goodies

Categories: Books , Brindisa , Christmas , Christmas books , Cocoa cream , Filofax , Hazelnut Creams , Morito , Moro , Rapeseed oil , Wine books

Digestif

Saturday, 4th December 2010

by Imogen Lycett Green

Maggi Hambling, OBE and CBE, whose paintings hang in the National Gallery, the Tate and the National Portrait gallery, lives on the Suffolk coast and paints the North Sea.

Categories: Painter , Scallops

Holding Forth on Holding Back

Thursday, 11th November 2010

by Frank Armstrong

Both West and East reveal strictly-regulated and hierarchical modes of consumption which tend to keep in check the potential for humans to descend to the level of ‘growling, yapping and biting’. Frank Armstrong examines how food has been shared through the ages

Categories: Food , History

In Search of the <em>Quinta Essentia</em>

In Search of the Quinta Essentia

Tuesday, 2nd November 2010

by Frank Armstrong

Frank Armstrong goes in search of the fifth element

Categories: Drink , France

The Furtive Flavour

Thursday, 30th September 2010

by Peter Grogan

It’s the fifth flavour after sweet, salt, sour and bitter – so why is umami so hard to describe? Peter Grogan attempts the impossible with the aid of a bottle of Lea & Perrins

Categories: Flavours , Food and Drink , Umami

Food of Champions

Thursday, 30th September 2010

by Dan Jellinek

Gone are the days when athletes could eat and drink what they pleased. So what has changed? And what lessons can we no-hopers learn? Dan Jellinek reports

Categories: Food and Drink , Healthy eating , Sport

Green Giant

Thursday, 30th September 2010

by Tilly Culme-Seymour

Once a delicacy, pesto is a staple of the modern store cupboard. But it’s really not that hard to make fresh, says Tilly Culme-Seymour

Categories: Food and Drink , Pesto

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Queen of Burgundy

Friday, 16th March 2012

Mature consideration

Saturday, 18th February 2012

Days of claret and cricket

Saturday, 3rd March 2012

L is for Locavore

The term ‘locavore’ was coined in 2005 by a California chef, Jessica Prentice, to describe a person with a diet based on local food. Some set themselves the challenge of doing this exclusively, perhaps with the odd exception such as coffee and wine. The 1,000 members of the Fife Diet in Scotland have an 80:20 concept: 80 per cent local and 20 per cent fairtrade to cover such matters as bananas.