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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Recipes
Dolmades and Spanakopita
Back in the ‘70’s, as an impecunious art student, a first date found us watching The Blue Max at the Odeon cinema in Leicester Square. Apart from the romantic delight sparked by my potential new partner, I have no idea as to why I picked that particular film. I had no...
Mashed Potato
“What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.” A. A. Milne The Spanish tag surrounding the Conquistadores and their early colonising shenanigans still retains a hint of missionary altruism coupled with shades of...
Pastéis de Nata. Portugese egg tarts.
"No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true today may turn out to be a falsehood tomorrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilising...
![Chicken soup with egg-lemon sauce [Avgolemono]](http://keithreeves.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/IMG_8988-400x250.jpg)
Chicken soup with egg-lemon sauce [Avgolemono]
Back in the seventies, whilst transitioning between impecunious art student and manqué sculptor, I was pleased to accept any and all invitations to attend select private views that generally preceded most art exhibitions. Be it in a national museum, ad hoc pop-up in a...
Lemon Pavlova
As a former wine merchant, often as a guest on lengthy wine tours skipping from one European winery to another via sauna-hot coaches filled with assorted media personal, a morbidly topical alternative to I-Spy became a frequent distraction amongst wine writers. It...
![Potato Straw Cake [Pommes Paillasson]](http://keithreeves.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/IMG_8895-400x250.jpg)
Potato Straw Cake [Pommes Paillasson]
Humour me if you will, and see if you can come up with the author: “…a sort of convergence of all the senses - the awareness through touching, and also through smelling, hearing, seeing and tasting that something is ‘just right’…to know by pinching and judging the...
Spaghetti with Clams
“I’ve been picking it up and putting it down for weeks now. I can’t say I’ve actually cooked anything from it. More, what I’m doing is deciding whether I can live up to its exacting standards” So wrote poet and journalist James Fenton in the Independent newspaper...