Food Breaks from April 2010
April 2010 Food Breaks Archive from Foodepedia
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A foodie weekend in Aberdeenshire
Tuesday April 27th, 2010Venison and whisky lord over the menu when Anita Pati takes a foodie trip of Aberdeenshire. And the cock pheasants spar while the Cairngorms twinkle. What else in a land where monarch of the glen, stovies and a warming dram bring a welcome fit for royalty?
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Chocolate heaven found in Flanders
Thursday April 22nd, 2010Oh boy, in a country famed for Beer, TinTin, Magritte, Mussels and Chocolate, we found the finest creator of the latter in fusion chocolatier David Maenhout in Flanders. The creations he turns out here are so utterly fantastic it's almost a crime to eat them. Well, almost because you could claim 'crime of passion'. David lets us into his workshop and talks about how he makes his mini-masterpieces, in between sharing out the goodies.
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The Flanders coast. A foody break with all the trimmings
Thursday April 15th, 2010The Flanders coast has so many Michelin Star restaurants, all vying for the local euro. I was over to visit one in particular, Bartholomeus in Knokke, but on the journey up there from Ostend I was able to take in a lot more of what the Flanders coast has to offer and get a taste of what makes it such a great and unusual foodie weekend break destination.