What will you having on your Christmas cheese platter. This lemony Gorwydd Caerphilly will be on my plate this year.
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What will you having on your Christmas cheese platter. This lemony Gorwydd Caerphilly will be on my plate this year.
Read morePostage stamps are works of art, beautifully designed and crafted. Citrus fruits are often depicted. Get licking!
Read moreGazelle. “That one over there,” says Renato Maunero, “she’s called Gazelle.” He was pointing to a nanny goat struggling to keep up with the rest of the 70 or strong herd and they grazed their way through a glade in the fields just south of the Piemonte hilltop towns of Cherasco and La Morra in […]
Read moreMasterchef winner and chef Julie Friend has opened her garden for up to six guests to enjoy delicious food in beautiful countryside
Read moreSouth African cuisine is diverse, unique, and delicious. Influenced by centuries of migration and colonisation, many of its flavours originate from such places as Malaysia, India, France and The Netherlands but has more recently been diluted by cheap, highly processed, junk food that offers people little in the way of healthier, better eating choices. It’s […]
Read moreHigh above the Mediterranean Sea in Vallebona, an ancient town in the Italian province of Liguria, lies a grove of bitter orange trees. Family run, the La Vecchia Distilleria grove is developing a reputation for high quality orange water known as Acqua di Fiori d’Arancio Amaro and for a limited production of neroli, an essential […]
Read moreWe called him our ‘Renaissance Man’! Need a DJ for a party … call Giovanni. Need a website building … call Giovanni. Need a BBQ firing up … call Giovanni! And so, with the United Kingdom celebrating National BBQ Week, who else was I going to call, but … Giovanni. Also known as Blushu, Giovanni […]
Read moreWe arranged to meet on a deserted street in Bra, empty of people and atmosphere. Bra, a city in northern Italy famous for giving birth to Slow Food, a global activist movement working to give people access to food that is good, clean and fair. But this wasn’t on our minds at the time. No. […]
Read moreSquinting into the screen of my mini-iPad I see friendly, smiley anonymous faces staring back at me in a culinary Zoom session. We’re gathered with a sense of community, to share our time and isolated spaces and take part in an interactive cooking class. I’ve signed up for 90 minutes of expert tuition, connecting with […]
Read moreCool morning air blows down from the Alpine mountains into Ivrea, in Piedmont, northern Italy and mingles with the scent of oranges, stacked in quiet street corners and squares ready for the city’s annual carnival, the Battaglia delle Arancie (Battle of the Oranges). It’s mid-February and time for the carnival, in which locals pelt each […]
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