Down under, our winter is their summer holidays. Australians are legendary for celebrating Christmas on the beach; South Africa is even further south than Australia, and often Christmas Day dinner will be around a braai, the Afrikaans name for a barbecue. I’m a huge fan of South African wines and have recently discovered Creation wines,…
The great British meal, fish and chips, served around the world as typically English, is not actually British but Jewish Portuguese. According to hallowed food writer Claudia Roden, it was originally brought here by Portuguese Marrano Jewish refugees in the 16th century. Another Jewish immigrant, Joseph Malin, was the first to sell fish and potatoes together, in his fish…
[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…
