The Beer Lover’s Table: Paneer Kathi Rolls and Drop Project Crush Session NEIPA
I had my first kathi roll many years ago, as a college freshman in New York City, though I may have been too tipsy at the time to properly appreciate...
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The Beer Lover’s Table: Radicchio Salad with Goat Cheese, Raspberries & Roasted Pecans and Pastore Raspberry Wild
Until recently, the idea that anyone could “crave” salad seemed preposterous to me. Too many are inadequately seasoned, under-delicious, falling back on their health halos rather than their actual flavour....
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Wine & Food Killers: Orecchiette with Yoghurty Herb Sauce and Spiced Lamb and Brash Higgins ZBO Zibibbo 2019
If there’s anything an indefinite lockdown scenario proves, it’s the importance of routine. In the absence of outdoor activity, self-imposed structure is the armature on which my weeks are now...
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The Beer Lover’s Table: Chicken Laksa and Braybrooke x Donzoko Vienna Lager
Here are all of the reasons you should make chicken laksa during lockdown: 1. It’s a flexible way to use up pantry staples. Looking to expand beyond beans and rice,...
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Wine & Food Killers: Slow-Roasted Pork Belly and Rhubarb and Herbs with Ruth Lewandowski Feints 2018
The world is short on joy right now. Even basic tasks – going grocery shopping, picking up a bottle of wine, cooking dinner – are freighted with anxiety and uncertainty....
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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...
