Douglas Blyde recalls a ‘baijiu’-laden banquet in the cashmere capital of China…

You can use this pan for all kinds of frying, but omelettes are what it does best. For midweek quick snacks it’s perfect and what’s more it washes out in seconds. It’s not cheap, quality never is, but you know it will last you out and be handed down the generations keeping everyone in eggy treats until the last hen stops laying,

In 1986 Anne and Andy Wigmore, along with a £40 a week incentive from the government, began their own cheese making business. Over 25 years later, Anne and Andy are still at it and not much has changed. Lara Cory spoke to the Wigmore’s about their life with cheese.

Alan Kingsbury goes monastic in a 21st century way at a luxurious Spanish abbey where only the best food, drink and service will do. Given his own butler, a masseuse and some very fine wines indeed, he gets a taste of the life that he has always dreamed of.

Sponsors of the annual competition to find the world’s fifty best restaurants, San Pellegrino have launched a new app for the iPhone and iPad.

Olmeca Altos is a relatively new tequila (2009) but it has the gravitas and style of a much older hombre.’Altos’ refers to the highlands of the tequila-producing region  of Jalisco, Mexico, where the best 100% agave tequilas are created and the blue agave used is hand picked. Here too the soil is unique, giving the tequilas made here a’terroir’ tast

The London Bridge hotel is at the foot of the Shard. Paul Ruel looks it up and stays the night

Maison Blanc’s head pâtissier, Alex Gresset  talks and tastes us through the upcoming Halloween and Christmas ranges of Maison Blanc patisserie. David Bullock is very impressed, and now a little fatter.

Despite the geographical improbability of the location, The Siam Winery has been seriously involved in growing vines and making a series of domestic cuvées in Thailand for some time.

The 2012 Nescafe Dolce Gusto Genio has new features and refinements to add to the experience and the flavour. Just as before it’s rather cute and stylish and takes up almost no room on a worktop; the base occupies a space less than a foot square, which is about 30cm if you insist on surrendering to the tyranny of Brussels. And it makes a decent cup of Joe too.