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On A Plate: Italy

Friday 26th March 2010

Talking of which (not that I was) here is the latest tip from my irregular cookery series. And that tip is…use passata. Once upon a time I decided to make a pasta Bolognese for tea – I’m a big fan of using cavatappi myself, having bored with spaghetti a while ago – but all of [...]

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Tasting Notes

Wednesday 27th January 2010

I drink too much. Far too much, you could say, and you’d be right. Some, though not me, try to counter this problem by making a New Year’s Resolution to stop drinking, or to at least cut down. But that’s difficult, when you’re dying for a pint after work, or fancy a cool beer on [...]

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MasterChef Is Back

Friday 19th June 2009

We interrupt our weekly Twitter digests with a quick word from MasterChef HQ. Because if it is said that a picture paints a thousand words, how few words can you get away with writing if, rather than carefully scripting a post, you instead chuck up a quick animated video? A few weeks ago I came [...]

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On A Plate: Spain

Tuesday 5th May 2009

It’s Spain this week, and no food speaks more of that fine nation than paella. Except perhaps patatas fritas. Anyway, here is my authentic recipe for paella, gleaned from a tiny piece of card attached to a fridge magnet my parents brought back from Benalmadena some years ago, and you can’t get much more authentic [...]

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On A Plate: India

Tuesday 28th April 2009

What do you do when you find that the opinions of those you ostensibly agree with are as annoying as the views of those whose arguments you oppose? Well, in my case you finally delete your proposed blog post on the G20 protests, feel a weight lifted off your shoulders, a release of endorphins, and [...]

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