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In Beirut? Don’t miss these six food stops

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Published on Yahoo Lifestyle UK & Ireland on 5th September 2013:

Beirut, Lebanon

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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Jude’s ice cream: artisan on a large scale

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Published on Yahoo Lifestyle UK & Ireland on 29th August 2013:

On the outskirts of Winchester in Hampshire is a little factory, home to Jude’s ice cream.

The company started around 10 years ago when its owner, Theo Mezger, took a sharp tangent from a career in banking to try his hand at ice cream making.

The reason? “We already lived on a farm and just decided to make the leap”.

What had started out as a hobby has now become a trusted brand that produces some 500,000 litres of ice cream a year, with room to expand, and the winner of numerous Great Taste Awards. It’s also just begun to be stocked by Waitrose.

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Eat right now: sugar snap peas

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Published on Yahoo Lifestyle UK & Ireland on 26th August 2013:

Sugar snap peas always have that hint of summer about them even when the sun is no longer shining. It’s that juicy snap, heard when you break a pod in half with the littlest of efforts.

The peas inside are tiny, almost non-existent. But then it is all about the outer shells. Thick and lusciously green, they are packed with that flavoursome new season pea taste with just a touch more sweetness than you’d expect.

They’re great raw in salads but I like to blanch them ever so briefly just to bring out their vibrant hue. And here in this recipe, they’re cooked so gently and tossed through a dressing that it’s almost like a salad. Only it’s served warm.

Sugar snap pears are only around from June to about September so quick, snap them up before they’re all gone.

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Festival Sud de France: bringing Setois joie de vivre to London

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Published on Yahoo Lifestyle UK & Ireland on 22nd August 2013:

When we think of the South of France, we immediately picture the shimmering blue of the Côte d’Azur. Its perfect coastline and gastronomic offerings are certainly hard to forget.

But while the French Riviera throws up some tasty treats, don’t forget to look west towards the Étang de Thau. There, protruding on the coast, is the commune of Sète, a place that’s nourished by the Étang (lagoon) on one side and the Mediterranean sea on the other.

What Sète has to offer

In Sète, life is slow. There are plenty of Parisiens who move to the area in search of a certain joie de vivre – sunny days by the beach combined with good food and great wines.

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Is beer best for fine dining?

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Published on Yahoo Lifestyle UK & Ireland on 15th August 2013:

There’s been a movement on the fine dining scene, a new trend if you will, where beer is the new wine.

Well ok, beer and wine are completely different beverages but that’s a story for another time.

It is, however, true that beer has made a quiet invasion onto some of the UK’s most prestigious menus. In fact, Bloomberg has this week reported that microbreweries within the M25 has increased by 13 fold and attributed this to, in part at least, the wave of Michelin-starred restaurants adding beers to their menu.

And the phenomenon isn’t just happening with Asian cuisines where beer has always been king or in gourmet burger joints, but rather, the most wine-centric of fine dining restaurants – the French.

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