Turning up the heat… – December 2009

Turning up the heat… – December 2009

As I write another dusting of snow is covering my neck of the woods in North Norfolk. Although I am aware of the many inconveniences snow has brought to Norfolk this year, I nevertheless welcome seasonal weather conditions that stand to delineate one quarter of our...
A case for mulled wine? – November 21 2009

A case for mulled wine? – November 21 2009

  One of the more adventurous amongst my present clients is an ex-services association who arrange social events, usually around wine tastings, over the length and breadth of the British Isles. Their excellent work and the serious nature of their provision for...

A trip to Navarra – October 17 2009

Imagine a culinary region, and I do mean region not country, nestling in the heart of Europe with it own source of wind-farmed electricity, mountain ranges topped with snow for more than half the year, easy and direct access to two seas yet the proud possessor of its...
Game time – September 26 2009

Game time – September 26 2009

Please forgive me for stating the obvious but I have spent the last couple of months totally underwhelmed by the drifting aromas of surrounding barbeques, in fact I have barely noticed that Papal puff of white smoke drift over any garden fence as the Alpha male sets...

Keith Floyd RIP – September 19 2009

My proposed article this week, that would now have been filed on matters culinary and read by you today, has been abandoned. The news this week of the death of Keith Floyd has rather overshadowed many of my thoughts and I suspect some of yours. A star that shone...