Schmaltz

Schmaltz

With more and more food stores, from hypermarket barns to our neighbourhood delicatessen, most times now stocking Duck or Goose fat and some even stocking Italian Lardo, a third option is missing. It’s where we should go next. Recent medical research has shown that...
YouTube presence at last

YouTube presence at last

Whilst researching an article on the wines of Piemonte, and in particular the rare white grape Timorasso, I was searching for information on one of its leading protagonists – the legendary winemaker Walter Massa. Up popped a memorable evening, preserved on You...

Blue Nun came to haunt me. Eastern Daily Press

Some years ago, around this pre-Christmas period, I was asked to contribute to a Yuletide programme on BBC Radio Norfolk. With unrestrained vanity I agreed long before I had weighed up potential problems. The day arrived and I travelled to the studios in Norwich...