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: Baked Sweet Potatoes Stuffed with Spiced Harissa Chickpeas and Goat Cheese with HB&B x The Kernel Tropical Stout
It goes without saying that this is a time – the time – for comfort food. I’ve been finding comfort in the everyday meditations and physicalities of the kitchen: the...
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Natural Wine Killers: Chicken, Rocket and Aioli Sandwiches with Crispy Chicken Skin and Selection Massale Central Otago Pinot Noir
It's not always easy to reflect on what we should be thankful for. The weather is bleak, the news often bleaker... But for this American, that’s what November is for. Even though...
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The Beer Lover's Table: Japanese Minced Pork Rice Bowls and Baron Brewing Walk in the Park Pale Ale
I’m not quite sure how I feel about Borough Market. On the one hand, I rely on South London’s world-famous food market for the specialty produce that eludes me elsewhere. I...
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Natural Wine Killers: Balkan Cevapi with Ajvar and Flatbread and Maurer Oszkar Crazy Lud Red 2022
As soon as I saw that this wine - a star of HB&B's October Natural Wine Killers subscription selection - hails from the Balkans and goes best with grilled foods and...
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Beer Lover's Table: Italian Hoagie Chopped Salad with Anspach & Hobday Ansbacher Festbier
If last winter was my self-proclaimed soup season, then I’ve spent the past few months thoroughly wedged into salad season - the fresh and crunchy, the creamy and the umami. I still have...
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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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The Beer Lover's Table: Sweetcorn, Tomato, Chickpea and Greens Salad with Feta Dressing and DEYA Electric Kool Aid Witbier
This year I’m holding onto summer as long as I can. Right now, my local greengrocer looks more like a jewellery shop, its tables overflowing with heirloom tomatoes in all colours,...
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Natural Wine Killers: Spiced Pan Con Tomate and Vini Rabasco Vino Rosato Cancelli 2023
There’s nothing like summer to remind you of the joy of simplicity. This is the season of the ingredient, of the stripped-back and uncooked. The best-eaten-raw, the garnished-only-with-salt. Of heirloom tomatoes...
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The Beer Lover's Table: Paratha Sesame Prawn Toast with Fell Brewery Helles Lager
Sesame prawn toast is simply a perfect food. In just one small parcel, it combines toastiness and nuttiness, salt and crunch, bouncy prawns and tender bread. It’s only flaw is that it’s...
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Natural Wine Killers: Rotisserie Chicken Caesar/Green Goddess Salad with Burja Estate Roza Pinot Gris 2022
For all of my life, I was totally disinterested in Caesar salad… well, at least until the other week. How can I explain what changed? Maybe it was just the gradual...
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The Beer Lover's Table: Cochinita Pibil and Elusive Brewing Alone in the Dark Black IPA
My visit to Mexico City back in April was, unsurprisingly, a glorious carnival of eating and drinking. A few months later, vivid memories still come floating to the top of my...
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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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