As many of you know, in a previous life I was a criminal lawyer. I loved criminal law – I loved its very precise world-view and the way it tested every day your belief in the presumption of innocence – it was just the criminals I had to defend that I didn’t like so much. […]
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Shine on you crazy diamond – November 2012
Click here for a full portionBaked truffled eggs inspired by “White Truffles in Winter”
I set foot in France for the first time when I was 14, stepping off a UTA flight and into the warm air of a Nice evening. My father had finally decided that at 11 years old, my brother would be old enough to appreciate foreign shores and booked tickets for the family to accompany […]
Click here for a full portionCelebrity Reflection – cruise review
When I was 19 years old, my father decided that it was time to take the family on an ocean cruise. Strictly speaking it was not the first cruise I’d been on: when I was about 2 he had attended a medical conference on a cruise ship that sailed around off the coast of Cape […]
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I always feel like somebody’s watching me – Celebrity Reflection, October 2012
Click here for a full portionRotkohl (braised red cabbage with apples)
“The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things; Of shoes and ships and sealing wax; of cabbages and kings…” So wrote Lewis Carroll in The Walrus and the Carpenter, one of the very few poems in which the humble cabbage gets a mention. Can anybody actually think of another notable […]
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