The recipe below is from remembrance of thigs past – 40 odd years past! The same sequence of informal Sunday lunch parties among fellow students that gave me my standard risotto recipe and some tasty curries also produced this ‘paella’ – I use the inverted commas deliberately because Zé’s aunt was Portuguese (well, he was, ...
RecipesAt the Four Seasons, O’Brien’s had assembled a collection of what many of us will be drinking this festive season and invited the wine scribes to preview same. Overall the quality was outstandingly high and the rise-and-rise of this progressive chain seems set to continue, thanks chiefly to the efforts of the buying team, skilfully ...
Tasting NotesAs tastings go this one was pretty good. Some decent whites, some nice surprises and even the big Burgundy houses didn’t entirely disappoint though they face stiff competition these days. So it was on to the reds and here, in amongst the average ‘it’ll do’ wines and the occasional duffer I did find some really ...
Tasting NotesThe Gilbeys Portfolio press tasting was one of the best organised and most enjoyable tastings of recent memory – hats off to Julia Kennedy, Lynne Coyle and Mary Dowey – despite the worst efforts of the Guinness Storehouse staff who did their best to sabotage the event by mopping the floor of the adjacent restaurant ...
Tasting Notes