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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PRESS RELEASE: Why Hot Sauce Will Be Even Bigger Business in 2024
Spicing Things Up: Why Hot Sauce Will Be Even Bigger Business in 2024 Leading UK hot sauce retailer Hop Burns & Black reports 94% sales increase in 2023 The global...
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Wine & Food Killers: Merguez Sausage and Pumpkin Tagine with Couscous and Bergkloster Super Lecka 2021
This time of year in England can be hard to love. It’s one of the biggest things I miss about living in the States, where autumn (fall) is treated like a...
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The Beer Lover's Table: Butterscotch Pudding Pots with Pumpkin Spiced Caramel and Yonder Brewing Coconut Florentine Stout
I should confess: I’m not much of a dessert person. Most days, I would rather have a wedge of cheese than a slice of cake at the end of a...
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The Beer Lover's Table: Persian Lamb and Quince Stew with Burning Sky Saison Automne
I know it’s autumn, even without looking out the window or checking the forecast. My body knows, because almost to the day that the calendar ticked over to October 1, it...
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Wine & Food Killers: Chilaquiles with Salsa Roja and La Grange Saint André Le Marmot 2022
There are few better teachers – or creative constraints – than necessity. The best of my cooking over the past year has arisen out of leftovers that urgently needed using:...
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Wine & Food Killers: Sweetcorn Butter Toast Two Ways and Chateau Barouillet Bergecrac Blanc Sec 2022
I’m not on TikTok (after spending much of the past decade donating large parcels of my brain to social media, I’m moved to defend the last stake of my sanity),...
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The Beer Lover's Table: Corn Arepas and Tomato Feta Salad with St Mars of the Desert Smodfest Festbier
If you hear Oktoberfest and think autumn – frothy litres flanked by hearty stews, falling leaves and thick jumpers – you could be forgiven. But the name of beer’s biggest...
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The Beer Lover's Table: Green Papaya Salad and Burlington Beer Company Uncanny Valley New England IPA
The other evening – on an unseasonably cold and rainy August night – I found myself in Lao Café in Covent Garden, hovering over a bowl of sour pork hot...
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Wine & Food Killers: Jackfruit Empanadas and Parajes del Valle Macabeo Maceración 2022
At most weddings, the food is barely worth remembering – but at this one, there were empanadas. Beef empanadas, cheese empanadas, all dressed in a deliriously spicy orange sauce. I remember them,...
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The Beer Lover's Table: Baja ‘Fish’ Tacos with Pineapple Salsa and Basil Avocado Crema with Two Flints x Willibald Clara Mexican Lager
Normally, I don’t cook with beer – I like it more as an accompaniment than an ingredient – but Baja fish tacos are an exception to the rule. There’s nothing...
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Wine & Food Killers: Summer Tomato and Nectarine Confetti Salad and Christina Rosé 2022
I am a creature of habit. When July comes, I know it’s time to eat as many tomatoes and peaches and nectarines as I can. The opposite of a squirrel hoarding...
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The Beer Lover's Table: Guava and Cream Cheese Pastelitos and Makemake New Moon Rising IPA
I never realised what guava could be until I walked into a Brazilian supermarket. Until then, I knew guava mostly as a tasting note that was semi-frequently ascribed to hazy...
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Wine & Food Killers: Beef Carpaccio with Rocket and Fennel Salad and Ovum EZY TGR Red Table Wine 2021
The season of no-cooking cooking has arrived at last. By which I mean: mangoes and stone fruit eating drippingly over the sink, or with granita or sorbet on the side....
