Notes and recipes from a Wine Merchant’s Kitchen
A tale of 250 of my family’s favourite meals.
Falling in love with exciting food and wine is a swift and easy process, providing it daily, at home for my family, is a lot more demanding. Notes and recipes from a Wine Merchant’s Kitchen looks back on the successes and mishaps of a life spent casting around for culinary discoveries.
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Moussaka [Μουσακάς]
“We do not sit at the table to eat… but to eat together” Plutarch, Greek philosopher. (46 AD - 119 AD) As we are living through an era plagued by travel uncertainty, with the welcome whiff of sea salt, scorching sand beneath the feet, scrubbed white dwellings...
![Borshch [борщ]](http://keithreeves.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/711B21A3-D51C-4389-B3F9-603B7701EDE2_1_105_c-400x250.jpeg)
Borshch [борщ]
I have a few colleagues who when pressed to provide a short list of culinary dislikes, blandly cite beetroot as one of their vegetable aversions (located somewhere between broad beans and parsnips on the unrefined straw polls I occasionally undertake down the pub)....
Fresh Apricot Preserve
“At its best the Apricot has a certain Eastern lusciousness, a touch of the exotic which comes strangely into our homely country. In some Persian palace whose quiet garden hears only the tinkle of a fountain it would seem to find its right setting, fitly waiting on a...
Celeriac Rémoulade
"A good supper is a rare thing today. Gastronomy is like poetry: it has fallen into a complete decadence... The causes of this decadence are well known: thoughtlessness, fatuity, overweening ambition are only small and ordinary sins; the most complete...
Devonshire Honey Cake
“I did it without reading the script, because I said, ‘Who’s in it?’ and they gave me this great big star list: Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Richard Widmark, Jose Ferrer,” Caine said. “I told them ‘I’ll do it.’ One day we were all having a conversation with live...
Greens with Pork Belly
Have you ever stood in your butchers shop or alternatively the butcher's counter at your local supermarket (where staff don straw boaters and striped aprons in order to convince you that they, and they alone, really did make the sausages that morning), and been...
Simple Bread Rolls
Some unusual things turn up when you’re looking for something elsewhere. Advancing shades of Don Quixote I fear. I was searching amongst the horizontal metres of cookbooks - a quantity of invaluable publications that my family frequently find time to pillory - in a...