by Rob Pickard
BBQ opportunities on our beloved rain soaked island are few and far between, so if you’re going to do it, make every effort to do it properly! Doing it properly can of course be affected by many factors, from meat, fish and veg selection, salads and accompaniments, pre BBQ beers, and importantly, wine selection. However, what I discovered on a recent trip to Bordeaux …
By Ben Turner
As one who likes to go and try out new food and wine haunts in London Town I was always slightly disappointed that a certain area of area of North London was void of a certain quality of gastropub. As it happens this place is Holloway and it’s where I currently reside. An especially and notably dry area of my beloved N7 is Tufnell …
by Gareth Groves
It has been three months since the last chilli update and the (relatively) good weather the UK has enjoyed since April has been perfect for chilli growing. A few of our contenders have fallen by the wayside but four of our growers have powered on into the final. Their task (having qualified by growing an actual real Wahaca chilli from …
by Andrew Barrow, http://www.spittoon.biz/
Readers of Spittoon will know I have a ’special relationship’ with Prosecco – that trendy, low-ish alcohol, Italian sparkling wine that I, and many of my friends, seem to be addicted to. There was a recent pop-up meal that matched Riccardo Proseccos to various courses (see Wine Passionista for a great atmosphere encompassing video) …
by Gal Zohar, http://myhaidu.wordpress.com
Last night I cracked. After 6 long years of resistance it all fell apart. Or, like the King would put it, “6 years down the drain”. I watched Sideways last night.
These were six difficult years. As a sommelier, pretty much every conversation started or ended with questions about fucking Merlot. At first I didn’t get it, then I learned to nod …
by Gareth Groves
I love food, I love wine and I love cooking so when blogger and cookery teacher Rachel McCormack invited me to come along to one of her Catalan Cooking classes to talk about Catalan wines, I jumped at the chance.
Rachel’s classes – held at the delightful Beas of Bloomsbury – are not an attempt to turn you into the next Ferran Adria, but a …
by Erica Fowler
Wine tasting and food and wine matching is something I take for granted having done it on a daily basis for the best part of ten years it seems second nature. When hosting wine tastings I often have people saying ‘it tastes like wine’ which is totally understandable, as it usually does. I can vaguely remember the first few wine tastings I …
by Gareth Groves
I am no expert when it comes to eating and drinking in Barcelona. In fact, I’ve only spent about five days there. So this is not an exhaustive, all-inclusive guide to one of Europe’s greatest cities. Instead, it is a short list of places I enjoyed eating and drinking at when I was there in June. Please feel free to add your own top …
By Gal Zohar
Krug Rosé
We all have these mornings when nothing seems right. Not sure of our lives, are we really happy and wondering if it’s now time for real change. Early last week I almost experienced one but then I remembered it is Krug lunch today. Couple of hours in the office then skip the routine desk …
By Patrick Carpenter, http://patrickcarpenter.blogspot.com/
The proper package!
It was the 150th birthday of fish and chips the other day and I was in Aldeburgh on the North Sea coast and decided to mark the occasion with the bag of “rock ‘n’ chips” shown above. As an insititution, fish and chips was voted in a recent poll as Britain’s most loved (knocking …
