by Kerstin Rodgers aka @MsMarmiteLover Snobbery and wine go together like love and marriage. I remember visiting the States a few years ago and getting very snooty about people putting ice cubes in their wine… even red wine! But let’s stop and think a minute. Sometimes, when the weather is pushing up the mercury, it…
Let’s face it. When you’re tired after a long day, the best short-cut dinner is pasta with some kind of sauce. This is the go-to easy meal in our household for filling up tummies. When my daughter was a toddler, she stayed with my parents for a weekend and they reported that she asked for…
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”] Vegan and Vegetarian Christmas What to serve vegans and vegetarians at Christmas is a head scratcher for those used to the simplicities of a giant turkey as a centrepiece. Some people can only imagine meat as an impressive seasonal treat, and they are stumped when it…
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”] Bordeaux is arguably the best-known wine in the world after Champagne, but it has an image problem. Since the 1980s, younger people prefer to drink wine from elsewhere – usually the New World, meaning Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile, Argentina, America. Our consumption of Bordeaux has…
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”] We talk often about wine and food matchings for meat and fish, but what about vegetarian food? What do you drink with a veggie burger? What do you drink with tofu? Or avocado? By listing whether a wine contains animal products, Winetrust caters to vegetarians and vegans. Egg…
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”] I’m doing a BBQ tomorrow, and it will be raining. But that’s not going to stop me. I’m British, you see. Despite our dodgy weather, we are the BBQ kings of Europe, #Brexit or #Bremain. As the season begins, here are my tips for doing it right. The…
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”] There has always been a close relationship between Champagne and the British. We are their biggest export market, buying almost a quarter of their output. The UK expenditure on Champagne is 75% more than the next biggest market, the United States – we buy over 30…
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”] A thick new red book, virtually an encyclopaedia of pizza, has just been published called Where to Eat Pizza (Phaidon), by American author Daniel Young. Pizza is probably the most popular fast food around the world. It’s almost one of the most profitable as the ingredients are…
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”] If you ever go to Seville – and I recommend it as one of the most beautiful cities in the world, with orange scented streets, white horse drawn carriages, and walls covered with blazing pelargoniums – look up Shawn Hennessey who runs tapas tours. She will take you…
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”] I realise the reaction of most people to this title will be a head scratching “What the heck is leftover wine?”. But it can happen, especially after Christmas and New Year’s celebrations, after any entertaining, and of course, as I run a supper club (a home restaurant) I…
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] Getting enough canapés to eat at a party is a battle. It takes skill, tactical know-how and cunning to get enough. Caterers usually do two to four canapes per person if it’s before dinner and eight to 10 canapes if it’s just drinks. Let’s speak frankly: this simply isn’t…
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fblike style=”standard” showfaces=”false” width=”450″ verb=”like” font=”arial”] At the end of October it is Halloween, celebrated in Mexico as the Day of the Dead or Dia de los Muertos. If like me, you are a fan of Mexican food, this is the perfect opportunity to brush up on your Mexican cooking skills, while trying out a…
