The Chinese call 2003 the Year of the Goat. Foodies will be calling it The Year of White Balsamic Vinegar. Every year there’s a new sexy ingredient – remember rocket, the sun-dried tomato, the kiwi fruit? White balsamic is the new black and chefs everywhere are mixing up their own secret potions, combining it with ...
RecipesExpensive? Yes. But what a great starter for that Poulet de Bresse with seared foie gras for that special occasion when you need to Say it with Food. Panna Cotta with wild strawberries would be nice to finish. Dream on Ern. PAN FRIED SCALLOPS IN A CREAM OF CHAMPAGNE AND SCALLOP CORAL SOUP 4 or ...
Recipeshave my own version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s nostrum. It goes: better to arrive than to travel at all. Low spots of the journey: confiscation of my cigar cutter by Aer Rianta’s bully boys; the ludicrous Shannon stopover; airline food, compounded by the cock-up that had me labelled as vegetarian – moi, king of carvivores!; ...
TravelOnce upon a time I owned a café. I bought a going – well, limping – business in a street where swanky Dublin 2 glares at iffy Dublin 1, separated only by the murky Liffey and by differing aspirations. The connecting bridge is named after a religious fanatic who enjoyed the peculiar hobby of hanging ...
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