Published on Life in Luxury on 4th October 2013:
Category Archives: Publication
Shaun Rankin: Jersey’s Island Chef
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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In Antwerp? Don’t miss these food and drink gems
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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Reduced alcohol wines: The taste low down
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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