Archive for January, 2005

No sects, please – more toleration and an end to "isms".

January 25, 2005 No Comments

Impressionism, cubism, fauvism, expressionism, surrealism. What a lot of ‘isms’ the art world has been through. Many painters have passed from one movement to another; rejecting old notions and, often, old colleagues and friends as they espoused new theories, becoming disagreeably didactic as they embraced the new, the one true visual religion. So too with ...

Tags: , Wine & Drink

Dax Wine Bar

January 25, 2005 No Comments

Sorry if I’m going off on a rant, but I really wanted to eat in a particular restaurant, was pitilessly denied the opportunity and, choking on bile, need to unburden myself. In Dublin’s unfair city, smugness abounds. Hardly surprising in a milieu where pampered luvvies constantly convey the impression to the rest of us that ...

Restaurant Reviews

RESTAURANT REVIEW: Alexis

American business psychologist Warren G. Bennis, described by Forbes magazine as ‘the king of leadership gurus’  is on record...

‘YOU DON’T NEED A POSH CANON” – blogpix for newbies

I’ve been a photo hobbyist since I got given  my first serious camera as a fourteenth birthday present. A...

YOU’LL NEVER BLOG ALONE – the day I discovered I’m a blogger and other stories

There are now over 400 food bloggers in Ireland. Though www.forkncork.com my food and drink website, Ireland’s first, has...

Natural Wine: Dog’s bollocks or the King’s new clothes?

Natural Wine Tasting at Fallon & Byrne, Dublin  by Le Caveau My first encounter with what has come to...

BLOG – variations on a sweet-and-sour theme

I cooked my first sweet and sour dish in 1984. Pork, of course. The recipe came from Ken Hom’s...

BOOK REVIEW Dunne & Crescenzi – The Menu

“We really cook very simply. Remember that the methods and ingredients have been used for generations and in the...

BLOG – 2 good blends tested but why is most coffee in Ireland shit?

  I’ve just been road testing a brace of quality coffees from a small and relatively new Irish supplier,...

That’s Amarone – Masi & Serego Alighieri tasting

Valpolicella is a viticultural zone of the Italian province of Verona, east of Lake Garda, ranking as the second...

BLOG – of store cupboards and other matters

Yesterday I set out to clean out my store cupboard – well, not exactly ‘clean out’ but at least...

RESTAURANT REVIEW – Lee Kee

My first encounter with Chinese food was in Manchester way back in the last century.  I was doing evening...