Wine & Food Killers: Aguachile Two Ways and Quarticello Despina 2023
At its best, summer cooking requires almost no cooking at all. Deep into yet another heatwave, the only things worth eating right now are crisp, fresh, zesty or chilled. But...
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Wine & Food Killers: Aguachile Two Ways and Quarticello Despina 2023
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The Beer Lover's Table: Spring Chicken with Potatoes and Asparagus and Arpus TDH Strata x Nelson x Galaxy IPA
Years ago, when we all still lived in London, a group of friends and I developed a ritual: Every Sunday, we would meet at one of their houses for “family...
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Wine & Food Killers: Oyster Mushroom, Wild Garlic and Chipotle Quesadillas with Kindeli Tinto 2020
If I am guilty of one thing every spring, it is of losing my shit over the annual return of wild garlic. I’m aware that I make a slightly parodic...
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Fundamentals #116 — Sureshot Bring Me The Head of John the Accountant Double IPA
The term “nature is healing” has perhaps been a tad overused during the past couple of years – although the other week, a new brewery opened in Manchester, which after...
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The Beer Lover's Table: Caramelised Shallot and Tomato Pasta with Anchovies and Brick Brewery Dunkel
One of my favourite Instagram accounts belongs to my friend Katie. At @nytfortea, she reviews New York Times Cooking’s vegetarian (or veggie-adjacent) recipes, including star ratings, tweaks and overall impressions. The...
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Fundamentals #115 — Utopian Doppelbock Strong Lager
For the last few years, beer folks like myself – assorted writers, bloggers, podcasters and influencers, not to mention retailers like HB&B – have been trying to make lager happen....
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Wine & Food Killers: Burrata and Mortadella Sandwiches with Pistachio Pesto and Podere Pradarolo Indocilis Rosso 2020
Some of the very best things are simple. Sun on a winter morning after weeks of rain. A well-made cup of coffee, served at exactly the right temperature. Dinner with good friends....
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Fundamentals #114 – Howling Hops System Auto DDH Pale Ale
One of the greatest things about relocating to the northwest of England has been the shift in perspective it’s given me. As a former Londoner of 15 years, my time...
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The Beer Lover's Table: Gorgonzola Risotto with Caramelised Shallots and Radicchio and Elusive Brewing Sunset City American Barley Wine
Compared with the abundance of summer, February's menu can seem mean, lacking. It is the season of hardened root vegetables, unyielding and caked with earth. All those parsnips and swedes rolling...
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Fundamentals #113 – Fierce x New Zealand Beer Collective Hokey Pokey Stout
I’m someone you could describe as being highly Kiwi-adjacent. My partner of the past 13 years is a proud New Zealander, and HB&B supremos Jen and Glenn also hail from there,...
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Wine & Food Killers: Borscht and Tenuta Foresto La Ideale 2019
The first time I ever had borscht, it was at Veselka in New York City, it was 2am, and it was snowing. Veselka is a downtown institution, a Ukrainian restaurant that’s been serving NYU...
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Fundamentals 112 - Alpha Delta Xevza Fresh Hopped Pale
I awoke on New Year’s Day this year with a strange, slightly unfamiliar sensation in the pit of my stomach, one that took me a few moments to put my finger...
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Our February charitable cause - in memory of Andy Pokorski
Andrzej (Andy) Pokorski was a loyal regular and a favourite customer at HB&B, particularly at our Deptford shop, where he was one of the first through the doors when we first...
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Wine & Food Killers: Vietnamese Venison Stew and Idlewild The Bird Flora & Fauna
In her recent book, Cook, Eat, Repeat, Nigella Lawson shares “a defence of brown food”, both a celebration of unlovely-looking but joyous-tasting stews and braises, and a rebuttal against the high-gloss...
