This is the first of ten posts on possible food pairings for the films nominated for Best Picture at this year’s Oscars. If a sensuous lily white mound, speckled by with dark vanilla seeds and smothered by a tide of darkness doesn’t make you think of Black Swan, maybe the wings of dark chocolate will […]
Archive for February, 2011
There are certain places that so quickly begin to feel like home. The welcome is warm and friendly. There’s somewhere to hang your coat. Wine comes swiftly in squat little glasses. You start to feel at ease.This is what happens to us when we return to St John. The first lunch we had at St […]
Somehow we ended up at Little Chef Popham for breakfast. It wasn’t really planned. Off we went in an unfamiliar rental car in the teeming rain. We were attempting to cross London in peak hour with a malfunctioning GPS. Two hours later we pulled up at a service station for petrol and wine gums with […]
The other night The Hungry One and I had a finance summit. It was scintillating. Really. Thrilling stuff. When we have finance summits we get to do lots of fun things like check the balances on all the credit cards (in the UK and Australia) and analyse where all the money is going. It was […]
This Valentines day, say it with saturated fat.