Spent a morning recently on a hillside in Saddleworth hunting for mushrooms with John Francis, The Wild Mushroom Forager. Here’s what we found…
Wine & Food
Thanks to Chuckles Metcalfe for his personal intro to this video on the Foodies Festivals and the Discover the Origin (DTO) campaign DTO brings together Parma ham, Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, port, Douro table wines and Burgundy wines working together to promote a selection of European Union products that speak of their […]
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Yes, World Nutella Day. Have to say it’s the other members of the family who crave it more than me – I wrote this a while ago for them… Ode to Nutella Some people love scallops, some people love roasties Some people love Stilton and marmalade toasties Some people love […]
Nothing about wine, but since it is World Nutella Day…
Here’s the ever eloquent Charles Metcalfe in action at the Bristol Foodies Festival talking about food & wine matching. You’ll see in several of the shots references to the Discover the Origin campaign, for which Charles, I and a number of other wine luminaries have been doing talks this spring. […]
Charles Metcalfe waxing lyrical on food & wine
…can be found at Three Twins Ice Cream in the Oxbow Public Market in Napa. Anyone tried it? And which of the three exotic ingredients would be the best accompaniment?
The world’s most expensive Ice Cream Sundae…
Cheeses from La Fromagerie, Burgundies from Louis Jadot….so how do they get on together? (Notes on the cheeses are from La Fromagerie – selected cheeses are also available at Sainsbury’s, Norbiton Fine Cheese Co., www.pongcheese.co.uk, Tesco, Waitrose and John Lewis) Louis Jadot Bourgogne Chardonnay 2007 (£11.99 Tesco, Eagle Wines, Wine […]