From time to time you hear a wine scribe making cheerful noises about some example of 1999 vintage Bordeaux. Not often, but you do hear it. If you are in any way perceptive you’ll recognise the sound as the whistling noise you used to make when, as a child, you had to go down a ...
Wine & DrinkMy personal favourite glace and, like all the best things, seasonal. Use only lavender flowers, fresh or dried. The packets sold for keeping the moths away from your best clothes are not suitable, as a friend found out! I like to keep a large Kilner jar ofvanilla sugar at hand – 3 or 4 vanilla ...
RecipesVisitors to Ireland, particularly those who have travelled via the United Kingdom, frequently express favourable opinions of the quality of our wine emporia, praise often coupled with positive remarks about the knowledge of their staff. Maybe the latter is not so surprising. After all, we are an education conscious country – as a friend, a ...
Wine & DrinkSomeday soon – but not yet – I’ll be too old for camping holidays in France. ‘Victoria’, my venerable Land Rover 110 is permanently kitted out with Easy Loader and J-Bars and it only takes a couple of minutes to stow ‘Beeswing’, my sea kayak up aloft. I have a rooted aversion to lazing on ...
TravelMy predecessors in the editorial hot seat established a rule whereby we gave a new restaurant a chance to bed down before we reviewed. I’ve modified this policy somewhat. I don’t see why restaurants should be allowed to rehearse at the diner’s expense – if things aren’t at least 90% perfect from Day One they ...
Restaurant ReviewsJeffrey M. Smith is the author of the international biotech bestseller “Seeds of Deception: Exposing Corporate and Government Lies about the Safety of Genetically Engineered Food.” He presented his documented evidence to Chefs, regulators, and the press, this past Sunday at Ireland’s National Future of Food Forum chaired by Nobel Laureate John Hume at Brook ...
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