“No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at one’s most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.” – Home Cooking. (1988) Laurie Colwin. During the carnage of the...
“Life is too short to drink bad wine”. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We live in a time where more wine is available to more people than ever before in history. It has become an egalitarian product, no longer the preserve of the metropolitan establishment or the landed...
Even Good Wine’s all Boxed-In Nowadays Posted on September 27, 2012 I never thought I’d write this headline or piece, but these last few months I have bought and enjoyed wine in boxes. Never say never, as the expression goes. I have been happily buying and enjoying...
Burgundy Of all the world’s most important wine regions, Burgundy is regarded as the most difficult to comprehend. Burgundy (or Bourgogne to use its French name) runs down the eastern side of France, from Chablis in the north to Lyon in the south, with the renowned...
We live in times where simple ingredients are often ignored. Memory and custom are fragile – traditions can be lost. Even the humblest of seeds such as the chickpea can be overlooked, but as we discovered in Puglia recently, there is still a food tradition that...
