Vegan and Vegetarian Christmas What to serve vegans and vegetarians at Christmas is a head scratcher for those used to the simplicities of a giant turkey as a centrepiece. Some people can only imagine meat […]
Bordeaux is arguably the best-known wine in the world after Champagne, but it has an image problem. Since the 1980s, younger people prefer to drink wine from elsewhere – usually the New World, meaning Australia, New […]
We talk often about wine and food matchings for meat and fish, but what about vegetarian food? What do you drink with a veggie burger? What do you drink with tofu? Or avocado? By listing […]
I’m doing a BBQ tomorrow, and it will be raining. But that’s not going to stop me. I’m British, you see. Despite our dodgy weather, we are the BBQ kings of Europe, #Brexit or #Bremain. As the […]
There has always been a close relationship between Champagne and the British. We are their biggest export market, buying almost a quarter of their output. The UK expenditure on Champagne is 75% more than the […]
A thick new red book, virtually an encyclopaedia of pizza, has just been published called Where to Eat Pizza (Phaidon), by American author Daniel Young. Pizza is probably the most popular fast food around the world. […]
I realise the reaction of most people to this title will be a head scratching “What the heck is leftover wine?”. But it can happen, especially after Christmas and New Year’s celebrations, after any entertaining, and of […]
Christmas and New Year’s Eve is when we pop open the corks on sparkling wines and Champagnes, a time to heap unstinting rewards upon ourselves for having got through yet another year. Is there any moment […]
Getting enough canapés to eat at a party is a battle. It takes skill, tactical know-how and cunning to get enough. Caterers usually do two to four canapes per person if it’s before dinner and […]
At the end of October it is Halloween, celebrated in Mexico as the Day of the Dead or Dia de los Muertos. If like me, you are a fan of Mexican food, this is the perfect opportunity […]
Long ago, bakers discovered that if you bake something twice – bi (two) cuit (cooked) – it becomes crunchy and lasts longer, hence ‘biscuits’. One of the earliest biscuits is the Ship’s Biscuit, or hard […]
German and Austrian wines have a slightly dodgy reputation – sweet white sickly wines like Blue Nun and Liebfraumilch – but this is a dated attitude. I’ve just returned from a visit to Berlin […]
While wine experts know exactly what they are looking for in a wine, checking out the grape variety, the terroir, the country and the year on a wine label, let’s face it, most of […]
I’ve just returned from a week in Athens where I explored Greek cuisine. The classic Athenian dish is pastitsio, a kind of lasagne but with long hollow-tubed macaroni rather than sheets of pasta. Traditionally it […]
Kerstin Rodgers on picking the best glasses from which to drink your wines. WineTrust100 Master of Wine Nick Adams has added his own comments to Kerstin’s text – and added some suggestions for matching […]
