Published on Yahoo Lifestyle UK & Ireland on 24th October 2013:
I’ve been thinking a lot about what I’ve been eating recently – not about the nuances in flavours and the trade-off between deliciousness and calorie count but rather, about what’s really on my plate.
And honestly, for someone who spends so much time writing about food, I couldn’t tell you.
Here’s why.
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Published on Yahoo Lifestyle UK & Ireland on 2nd October 2013:
Foraging has been so popular in restaurant lexicon that if it hadn’t already existed, it would surely have been introduced into the Oxford English Dictionary alongside ‘foodie’. But while foraging is a fad that many would like to get into, few restaurants do it with style.
However, on the island of Jersey, there’s one restaurant where foraging is at the heart of everything they do – Ormer by Shaun Rankin.
Rankin’s Ormer only opened in May this year but it was able to secure its first star in the latest Michelin guide for Great Britain and Ireland, just four months after opening. He had previously been head chef at Bohemia on Jersey where he also attained a star.
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Published on Yahoo Lifestyle UK & Ireland on 27th September 2013:
The city of Antwerp is probably better known for its harbours and diamonds than its food and drink but there are definitely real foodie gems in this Belgian city.
Like other cities in Belgium, it’s an eclectic mix of the traditional and the modern. On the one hand it’s still producing the century-old Elixir d’Avers amidst a quiet residential street, on the other there’s avant garde Belgian cuisine being created at the likes of the Seppe Nobels restaurant at Graanmarkt 13.
So while you might be heading to the city for things other than the comestible, you must make time for these five stops:
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Published on Yahoo Lifestyle UK & Ireland on 17th September 2013:
You may have seen in the news recently that health ministers want to take the alcohol out of our wine by re-categorising the alcoholic beverage.
At present, the minimum strength of still wine is 8.5%ABV (there are some exceptions to this) but their campaign aims to reduce this to 4.5% – closer to that of beer.
The reason? As strange as it might sound, they are concerned about the alcohol consumption of the middle classes.
But lower alcohol wines are not without benefits.
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Published on Yahoo Lifestyle UK & Ireland on 5th September 2013:
The city of Beirut is known for its partying antics. With the nearby political unrest, it’s hard not to live for the moment.
Perhaps that’s why up and down the city are warehouse districts housing rooftop superclubs to entertain the young and restless. Even beach clubs turn into nightclubs when the sun goes down.
But Beirut’s food scene is equally vibrant.
While French and European food is now all the rage, there are still places where you can find traditional Lebanese cuisine.
So if you’ve partied a little too hard in Beirut or just fancy filling your stomach with good food, here are a few places where you can just kick back and relax.
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