Wine & Food Killers: Miso Comté Buns and Domaine de Bon Augure Joncs-Cella
Six years ago, I fell in love with a pastry. It was the early days of the pandemic. If I left the house at all, it was to go on a...
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Wine & Food Killers: Vietnamese-Style Wings and Herby Salad with Koehler-Ruprecht Kallstadter Riesling Kabinett Trocken 2022
Recently, a friend made chicken wings – simple, marinated with Caribbean hot sauce and fresh thyme for a few hours, thrown into the oven, then poured, juices and all, into...
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Wine & Food Killers: Grapefruit and Brown Butter Scallops with Spring Salad and Loxarel Cora Blanco 2023
I can’t recall any other year when spring has arrived so swiftly. After months of near-unrelenting darkness, it feels like someone has turned on all the lights. Suddenly, the world...
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Natural Wine Killers: Heritage-Breed Pork Chops with Apple and Fennel Salad and Nicolas Reau Attention Chenin Méchant 2023
Just like that, the year is teetering over into its dark half. It’s still warm enough that my tomato plants continue to bear golden fruit, but the wind is getting colder,...
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Natural Wine Killers: Miso Herb Courgette Fritters with Labneh Dipping Sauce and Bergkloster Cuvée Weiss 2022
I’ve come around to courgettes. I used to find them watery and insipid, a seasonal vegetable that grew in large gluts that were inversely proportional to its deliciousness, but I’m beginning...
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Natural Wine Killers: Ultimate Spring Salad and Koppitsch Homok 2022
The arrival of spring usually makes me a little loopy. It’s not only the warmer temperatures, the scent of blossoms on the air, the blessedly later sunsets. It’s also the new...
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Natural Wine Killers - Ras El Hanout Spatchcocked Roast Chicken with Chickpea Pulao & Les Cadoles La Cadole à Marcel Mâcon Chardonnay 2021
A Sunday roast is a special thing – or at least it is for a lot of people. Blame my US upbringing, but I never felt that attached to the...
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Wine & Food Killers: Fried Artichokes with Wild Garlic Pesto and Still Life Sauvignon Blanc 2022
Recently, I’ve fallen for artichokes. I enjoy the appeal of their unyielding exteriors and thorn-tipped leaves, the knowledge that they need to be plucked and peeled and sliced, eviscerated of their...
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Wine & Food Killers: Tomato Curry with Roasted Paneer and Johannes Zillinger Revolution White Solera
For many, January is a time of deprivation, of restoring a lost balance thrown off by those prior weeks of feasting and merrymaking. I, too, feel a pull towards asceticism...
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Wine & Food Killers: Spiced Spinach and Wild Garlic Soup with Poached Haddock and Matthias Warnung Whitey Weisswein
“Y’all, I need to tell you about this soup I made last night.” My phone lit up with a message from my friend Jess, quickly followed by a photo of rustic...
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Wine & Food Killers: Mackerel with Herb Salad and Crispy Sumac Potatoes and Constantina Sotelo Rosalía
As I’m writing this, false spring has been and gone. You know the one: That tricksy week in February or March that’s so golden and sun-drenched it swindles us into...
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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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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...
