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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Wine & Food Killers: Orecchiette with Merguez Sausage, Broad Beans and Manchego and Les Vins de la Gabare Les Amandiers 2020
Recently, I came across food writer Diana Henry’s paean to “sofa suppers” – those dishes where there’s “everything in a bowl, no extra relishes or anything, and you only need...
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Fundamentals #105 - DEYA x Do Nothing Mud Pale Ale
Beer, as a beverage and as a culture, is forever changing. From the styles of the beers we drink, to the flavours they possess, and the places where we enjoy them;...
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Fundamentals #104 — Brevnovský Benedict 12º Czech Pale Lager
Something I struggle with is when people tell me they don’t like Czech lagers because they taste like diacetyl. For the uninitiated, diacetyl is a substance created by yeast during...
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The Beer Lover's Table: Reverse-Seared Steak and Tomato Salad with Fremont Brewing Lush IPA
Like a lot of people, I’ve been reconsidering my relationship with meat and dairy over the last year or two. This reconsideration has looked like prioritising more vegetable-driven dishes for...
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Fundamentals #103 — Newbarns Haná Helles Lager
I experienced a moment of immense disappointment the other weekend. I was in Leeds, and the day before I had (somewhat trepidatiously, due to the ongoing pandemic) enjoyed my first proper session at a...
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Wine & Food Killers: Cherry Tomato Tarte Tatin and Arndorfer Schlehe Amber Wine 2020
I’m writing to you from the middle of the late summer coda it didn’t look like we would to get this year – September ablaze with sudden sun that has...
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Fundamentals #102 — Duration Cutting Grass Italian Pilsner
What’s with the spate of “Italian” style pilsners being released by British breweries lately? And just what the hell is an Italian pilsner anyway? First released in 1996, Birrificio Italiano...
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The Beer Lover's Table: Birria Tacos and Utopian Brewing Dark Lager
This probably isn’t the first time you’ve come across birria tacos recently. In that strange way that the internet collectively seems to nominate one dish for obsession every few months,...
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Fundamentals #101 — Rivington Brewing Co Never Known Fog Like It NE Pale
Every so often a new pale ale arrives from a British brewery that I feel serves as a marker in terms of flavour, representing both of where we are now, and where...
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Wine & Food Killers: Tiger Prawn and Squid Paella with Oriol Perez de Tudela Escabeces 2019
The other day I read a newsletter pondering whether “the vibes are off” in New York City this summer. This prompted me to wonder: How are London's vibes faring right...
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Fundamentals #100 — Elusive x Rock Leopard Pining For Change West Coast IPA
I am a pub creature at heart. While I always keep plenty of beers that veer from the exceedingly interesting to the sublimely refreshing in my fridge, draught pints are...
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The Beer Lover's Table: Southeast Asian Crab Cakes and Urbanaut Horopito and Kawakawa Gose
There’s a genre of food that I can’t help but categorise as “restaurant cooking”. It’s not because those dishes – the category also includes French onion soup, beef Wellington and...
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Fundamentals #99 - Mountains Walking Tin Sky DDH DIPA
I’ve been an admirer of beer for as long as I’ve been allowed to drink it. But my first trip to the US in July 2010 was what turned me into a...
