When I was about six years old, my late half-sister Lucille moved to France. After completing her language studies in South Africa, she went to do an Honours course in Aix-en-Provence, fell in love, got married and never moved back to South Africa. At the time, South Africans did not really do that sort […]
Click here for a full portionGreat Taste @ The Cadogan
The Great Taste Awards were started in the mid-1990s by the Guild of Fine Food to recognise excellence in speciality and artisan British producers. Producers submit their products which are then judged by at least three different panels at three different venues. All the tasting by the over 350 judges, who include fine food […]
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Tiles, Conservatoire des Ocres, Rousillon – Jue 2012
Click here for a full portionBlueberry Eton Mess
There are some things that simply should not be messed with. Just ask the Coca-Cola Company. In 1985 they decided to take the formula for Coca-Cola that had made them a fortune since Atlanta drugstore owner John Pemberton develoed it in 1885 and tweak it as a centenary celebration – on other words, they […]
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The first poppy of the summer – May 2012
Click here for a full portionPlate to Page Somerset: 14 women, one man, and a dog, Part I
Plate to Page, Class of Somerset (photo courtesy of Rim Abo-Hegab) Do you remember your first day at a new school? Maybe it was simply a change from junior school to high school; or maybe your parents had moved town and put you in a new school. Either way, I do not think there is […]
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