How daft do we think people are..? There’s been much discussion lately about “de-mystifying” wine: does the traditional wine vocabulary still have any great relevance, or does it merely obfuscate; does it deter people from the specialist shops; did it ever make a ha’porth of sense, anyway? You know the sort of thing. But has … Continue reading
Post Punk Liverpool: Ten Tales of Tea Shop Delirium.
1976. An eccentrically creative theatre director, Ken Campbell, has chanced upon Robert Anton Wilson’s “Illuminatus!,” a brain-tangling trilogy of novels examining colossal conspiracy theory in minute detail. It strikes Campbell as ideal for theatrical adaptation, and it becomes the source text for an imminent production. He puts the idea to a local set designer, Bill … Continue reading
Child Friendly Vegetable Soup
“You can make a meal out of nothing, if you’ve got the stuff.” An ideal way to use up some bits of veg that might not otherwise constitute a full meal, and a quick, vegetable-rich dinner that can be prepared ahead of time and frozen into meal-sized microwaveable portions. The day after your kids have … Continue reading
Winery of the Month – Agricola I Fabbri, Chianti Classico
Where time permits, we all like to find out a little more: about the farm which produced our reassuringly smelly cheese, the microbrewery responsible for that third pint of delicious murk, the saxophonist undaunted by the odd reed squeak or horn honk in the urgent unfolding of his solo. With this in mind, every month, … Continue reading
Staring At Beer
The only way to prove a small point to myself, it seemed, was to spend several weeks staring at a bottle of beer. It was not unbroken staring, you understand; indeed, there may only have been a few sly stares per week, but it was always the same beer. I had a suspicion that it … Continue reading
No Frills Chicken Curry
“One pot and it’s dinnertime, two pots and it’s Christmas!” You will need… Vegetable oil Eight chicken thighs Three medium onions At least half a bulb of garlic One red chilli, finely chopped, with seeds left in. Turmeric (mainly to enrich the colour) One tablespoon and one teaspoon of cumin seeds Half a … Continue reading
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