The Beer Lover's Table: Pumpkin, Chestnut and Chickpea Pilaf with RedWillow Treacle Treat Dark Ale
If you ask me, there just aren’t enough dark ales – or brown ales, for that matter – being made today. I love a crispy lager or a hazy IPA,...
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The Beer Lover's Table: Pumpkin, Chestnut and Chickpea Pilaf with RedWillow Treacle Treat Dark Ale
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The Beer Lover’s Table: Pad Thai with Crispy Tofu and Duration Brewing Promise Of Spring Norfolk Witbier
People sometimes ask me how I come up with the inspiration for these columns – whether I begin with the beer or with a dish. The answer is: haphazardly, and...
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Wine & Food Killers: Baked Feta with Za’atar Pita Crisps and Harvest Pinot Gris 2019
The thing is, it still isn’t spring. Not for a couple more weeks, and presumably those will be grey and rain-saturated like all the rest of this mild and humid...
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The Beer Lover’s Table: New Zealand-Style Buffalo Chicken Pies and Burnt Mill x Donzoko Dark Second Dark Lager
This column begins with a humblebrag: this pairing was inspired by a beer and a snack that I enjoyed at Hill Farmstead Brewery in Vermont in January. After New Year’s,...
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Wine & Food Killers: Four-Cheese Baked Penne Pasta and Pheasant’s Tears Shavkapito 2018
Baked pasta is the fuzzy pyjamas of food. Baked pasta is staying in all day and night, and finding a warm place on your sofa, and not caring about how...
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Wine & Food Killers: Comté Gougères and Casa Lapostolle Collection Semillon Torontel 2017
There are plenty of traditional nibbles that show up during New Year's celebrations: blinis with caviar, smoked salmon canapés, dips aplenty. This winter, I say keep that festivity going...
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The Beer Lover’s Table: Deep-Fried Mince Pies And St Bernardus Christmas Ale
There’s been a lot of discussion on the food internet lately about what constitutes a mince pie. The controversy kicked off two weeks ago, when US food website The Spruce...
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Wine & Food Killers: Pressure Cooker Short Ribs and Finca Decero The Owl and The Dust Devil
I’m always looking for ways to do the holidays differently. Ham is predictable. Turkey – unless it’s deep-fried – can be dry and disappointing. Roasting beef to everyone’s specifications is...
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The Beer Lover’s Table: Chicken Thigh Biryani and Stigbergets Juleljus NEIPA
“A perfectly executed biryani will make you aghast with joy. You will remember it and you will make sure your friends remember it, for days or months thereafter.” As...
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The Beer Lover’s Table: Cassoulet and Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Urbock
What do you pair with a beer that tastes like kindled wood and toffee malts and smoked meat? If you have all the time in the world, the answer might...
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Iago’s Wine Chinuri Skin Contact 2017 (Georgia)
Recently, I happened upon a Twitter thread decrying those who would label orange wine as a “trend”. As Stephen Satterfield of Whetstone Magazine puts it, the style of wine has...
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The Beer Lover’s Table: Pearl Couscous With Roasted Aubergines & Tomatoes and Donzoko Northern Helles
Like many in the craft beer world, I only discovered the magic of lager in the past few years. For me, first there was Pilsner Urquell straight from the tank,...
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Wine & Food Killers: Roasted Chicken Thighs with Potatoes, Bell Peppers & Balsamic Tomatoes and Jauma Like Raindrops Grenache 2017
There’s a lot you can say about September, and about its obvious superiority to all the other months. August’s blistering heat has been replaced by a subtle crispness in...
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The Beer Lover’s Table: Chinese-Spiced Lamb Burgers and Burning Sky Petite Saison
When I lived in New York, I used to go to a local restaurant chain called Xi’an Famous Foods. And when I went to Xi’an Famous Foods, I always ordered...
