Puff pastry, brittle as brik, which sheds all over your palms and sleeves like a storm of Autumn leaves. A crisp outside sheltering a bump of pliant filling. Really, what’s not to like? Pastizzi, or Maltese pastry snacks were frequently present in our freezer back in Sydney; an excellent emergency entertaining option. We’d tumble them […]
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People flee to Cornwall, on the south western crag of the UK for many reasons. Rolling green fields. Beaches with proper surf and sand. Friendly folk. Good food. Cream tea. And a little dose of escapism. The thing with escape is, there’s no time to waste. Even if you’re doing nothing, you want it to […]
Just as you can’t go to Brussels and not eat mussels and you probably shouldn’t go to Berlin without stalking the best schnitzel, if you’re heading to Cornwall you owe it to yourself to find a stellar cream tea. The politics of a cream tea in the UK are sticky and rife. Whether you add […]
A few months ago when researching our trip to Dubrovnik I read a survey which included the city’s Restaurant Nautika as the most romantic restaurant in the world. And while the lunch we had there was fine, the view lovely, the food passable, it made me think. I’m not sure it’s making my top 10. […]
Punting. Queen’s College. The Mathematical Bridge. The Bridge of Sighs. And one of the original homes of the famed chelsea bun. There are plenty of reasons to take a jaunt up to Cambridge. (Even without the additional ‘free gift with purchase’ of a family designed scavenger hunt to track down the labs where your grandfather […]