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Hidden Hut’s Wine Stock – the best event of the summer?
I’ve read Eat Love Pray and pretended to hate it (but there is nothing not to like about stuffing your face with pizza in Naples); I got addicted to Carol Drinkwater renovating an impossible house in the south of France … Continue reading
Posted in Cornwall
Tagged Caroline Quentin Cornwall, Chateau Civrac, Fifteen Cornwall, Hotel Tresanton, The Hidden Hut
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Sam’s On The Road get the wagons out for some al fresco dining in Cornwall
Summer in the UK is an oxymoron. I’m sorry Caroline Quentin but while the sun always shines on TV it doesn’t always shine in England’s poorest county. A premature burst of rays in May might delude us into flipfloppèd white-legged … Continue reading
Posted in Cornwall, restaurant reviews, Uncategorized
Tagged Caroline Quentin Cornwall, Fergus Henderson, Gordon Ramsay, pop up, The Hidden Hut
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What I didn’t know about meat. And why Philip Warren butchers are so exceptional
I thought I knew a few things about meat. That is until I met Philip and Ian Warren. And I realised I actually knew nothing. Particularly about the fragile moorland ecosystem that without Warrens, may not exist at all. But … Continue reading
Nathan Outlaw: from Cornwall to the capital and back again
With the opening of a fourth restaurant in Looe – Outlaw’s Fish Kitchen – comes the temptation to resort to colonial terminology and speak of an ‘Outlaw Empire’; chatting to Nathan however, perched on the end of the sofa in … Continue reading
Chocolate matters …
Chocolate advertising tells us a lot about chocolate itself and our attitudes towards the brown stuff (proletariat), the dark stuff (posh), the white stuff (chocolate at all?). When Cadbury’s substituted the usual sensual codes associated with chocolate advertising (a woman … Continue reading
Posted in chocolate, Cornwall, Easter, seasonal
Tagged Cadburys creme egg brownies, chocolate beverage, Lindt, Nicky Grant, sophie dahl
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Nigella’s Quadruple Chocolate loaf cake– why wouldn’t you take it to bed?
Nigella has confessed. This particular cake goes to bed with her. Crumbs drop on the sheet and there is something just a little Fifty Shades about it all: just substitute chocolate where E L James would have us read riding … Continue reading
Posted in baking
Tagged E L James, Fifty Shades, Nigella Lawson, Quadruple chocolate loaf cake, the red room
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The Clandestine Cake Club Cookbook by Lynn Hill
Geneen Roth, author of Women Food and God and latest go-to guru of Oprah Winfrey, has six rules for healthy eating, the fifth of which is: 5. Eat (with the intention of being) in full view of others. The clandestine … Continue reading
Posted in baking
Tagged Clandestine Cake Club, Geneen Roth, Lynn Hill, Oprah WInfrey, The Clandestine Cake Club Cookbook
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Horse-free and homemade: The Kernow Sausage Company, Cornwall
It’s time for some foodie confessions. 1) I am a food snob; 2) I have a prejudice against processed meat; 3) pork scratchings still rule. The first (and I say this with some smugness) makes it highly unlikely that meat … Continue reading
Posted in Cornwall, meat products
Tagged horse meat scandal, Kernow Sausage Company, Paul Ainsworth, sausages
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The Friday Review: Dances with Beerwolf Books Falmouth
Ironically, for a literary establishment that serves beer alongside books, Beerwolf Books are people of few words. But more importantly, the venue speaks for itself: fire, beer and books.
Posted in Cornwall
Tagged Beerwolf Books, Falmouth, James Joyce, Notre Dame, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, Ulysses
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The Gurnard’s Head – more than the sum of its parts
“Some people get it and some people don’t. We don’t have TVs in the rooms for example. What people can do however is come downstairs, sit in front of the fire and have a drink.” Manager Andy turns all the … Continue reading
Posted in Cornwall, hotel review
Tagged The Cornish Duck Company, The Gurnard's Head, Zennor
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