Choosing wines for Christmas usually has him dithering undecidedly over the regional shelves; but this year, Alan’s in the mood to bring some Mediterranean sunshine into the depths of a British December.
Town-Topic – Kansas City
Town-Topic in Kansas’s menu remains dedicated to its burger output, offering single, double and triple hamburgers, alongside a ½ lb for fat bastards who can’t get their carnivorous kicks from a triple.
Paxton and Whitfield potted cheese
Royal cheesemonger Paxton & Whitfield have launched a new line of’retro’ Pots of Cheese that come in two flavours – Cheddar Rarebit and Stilton with Tawny Port.
Cakeadoodledoo Festive Recipe- Gingerbread House
A bit of project cookery for kids, their overgrown counterparts, and anyone who fancies themselves handy with the old DIY. And, if it all goes tits-up, it’s both less dangerous and more delicious to eat your way out of than a more ‘industrial’ undertaking.
Paul A Young’s Christmas chocolate truffle recipes
‘Chocolate naturally lends itself to Christmas’, says Paul A Young. So he’s given us a tempting trio of festive recipes to make at home: a gingerbread-spiced truffle, a warming Aztec-inspired chocolate, and one featuring all the flavours that underpin a Christmas pud, without the belly-busting after-effects.
A very Mexy Christmas
Tequila.the old Mexican mother’s ruin, is now a drink of flavour and palatability. We’ve already looked at Olmeca Altos tequila and now it’s Herradura’s turn to come under the bar spotlight.
The Park Lane Hotel’s Christmas Afternoon Tea
In December, the Palm Court Lounge of Mayfair’s Park Lane Hotel becomes Christmas distilled and triple-filtered. The gentle plink-plonk of live harp music mingles with the pleasant chit-chat of polite conversation. It’s all terribly civilised and, in short, the ideal location for Christmas afternoon tea.
The Big Fat Foodepedia Gift Guide
Gifting is a tricky business. Not least since they christened it with that grammatically dubious title. Linguistics aside, we present to you a snazzy selection of swag to suit allsorts.
The Digested Read- 2012’s Top 10 Cookbook Reviews
Okay, so a flat, rectangular package under the Christmas tree isn’t going to fool anyone. But when all the whizzbang doodads and gallimaufry of geegaws have been cast aside, the book is the one gift that keeps on giving. Just please remember to scrawl a personal missive inside the front cover. It’s the only time you’re allowed- indeed, implored, to deface a book.
Morrisons Wine
Supermarkets vary in their ability to offer genuine regional wines at value prices so I was happy when a pre-Christmas reccy of my local Morrisons led me to the conclusion that, here at least, ‘Seek and ye shall find’.