“My father was standing on the edge of the clearing with the moonlight streaming down all over him and a great bunch of pheasants in each hand. His face was bright, his eyes big and bright and wonderful, and he was staring around him like a child who has just discovered that the whole world [...]
Alex James is an unlikely cheese maker. As Blur’s bass player, James claims to have drunk a million pounds worth of champagne in three years, whilst contributing to some of the most innovative and enduring records of the last twenty years, both of which I suppose are significant achievements, just in very different ways. All [...]
I need to point two important things out before I start: everybody does this differently. This is just my way. Yours may be better. The title of this post is obviously a provocative lie. I’ve no idea what ‘authentic’ is when it comes to this dish. Hot? Mild? Beans? No beans? No idea. This is [...]
With the temperature outside struggling to reach the heady heights of -2C, the heat and warmth of a good Indian curry has never felt more appropriate. Start with 800g to a kilo of cubed lamb or mutton, preferably off the bone, but if you can cope with the fiddliness of a few bones in your [...]
The Drunken Duck has an ace up its’ sleeve. Out the back, they’ve got their own micro-brewery. Barngates Brewery was founded in 1997, as an experiment to supply the Duck’s bar with some of it’s own beer. In 1999, the operation was expanded to a five-barrel plant, and in 2008, with the help of some [...]