DIGEST: UK Press

MobyP · December 4, 2003

Another week, another selection of little delectables...

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This week's selection comes from:

And November's Observer Food Monthly.

Restaurants

Jan Moir at the Waterside Inn

Marina O'Loughlin gets stuck in at The Anchor and Hope.

And also looks at Treats and temptations

Giles Coren at East@West

Jay Rayner gives Shumi a classic kicking.

Astonishingly, we announce the absence of an A A Gill review this week. I know, should he ever find himself extraordinarily, repulsively ill, that we would all wish him a speedy recovery.

Features

The old Hamper in the attic has a makeover.

Food

Rick Stein on buckets of Cream.

Mathew Fort on the joys of Animal Fat.

Mark Hix on Christmas Treats.

Rowley Leigh on the joys of stuffing Veg.

Richard Ehrlich on Luxury Goods.

Susan Low on 1001 things to do with Chestnuts.

And Pies.

Gordon Ramsey on Party Food.

Tamasin Day Lewis on tip top mail-order Foods.

3 from Jill Dupleix.

Nigel Slater on Xmas.

Wine and Spirits

A tale of two clarets.

Malcolm Gluck on desert wines.

Roger Protz on strong lagers, ales, and beers of the world.

Fiona Beckett - single malts.

MobyP · December 10, 2003

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This week's selection comes from:

And the new December Observer Food Monthly.

Restaurants

Terry Durack at - WD-50 in New York.

Richard Johnson at - Taman Gang

3 Pubs

Jan Moir at - Soufflé

Matthew Norman - Wolseley

Jay Rayner at the Ebury.

What happens when - 'Man of the People' A A Gill finds somewhere he loves. (It had to happen eventually.)

Features

No taste like home .

Finding Turkeys in this emerald isle.

Sourcing the Best.

John Carlin on Adria and the tappity tap tapas of Spanish cuisine.

The Dinners of Egon Ronay.

Food

Two from Mark Hix: Cassoulet.

Corn chowder.

Gordon Ramsey - a superb slow-cooked Duck for Christmas?

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on the joys of Offal.

Nigel Slater on alternatives to Christmas lunch.

Rowley Leigh on pheasants, and cooking for a crowd.

Xanthe Clay on Goose and bits.

Wine and Spirits

Cellar notes #10: Trouble-free bubbles.

Top 100 Winter Wines.

Andrew Catchpole on Xmas wines.

Tim Atkin's essential guide to wine.

And his top 36 choices for Christmas.

what really is a single malt?

MobyP · December 19, 2003

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This week's selection comes from:

Restaurants

Marina O'Laughlin grabs a little soul at Harlem.

Rayner crosses the bridge of Khazad-Dhum...

Tracey MacLeod Morgan M

Giles Coren on being fed up with small, blind, snuffling Venezualan creatures.

Matthew Fort 2XS.

Jan Moir at Clarke's.

Fay Maschler on the Cream of the Crop.

Features

Getting your gob around a hunk of gold...

Food

Xanthe Clay on Sea Bass.

Marcus Wareing on The Perfect Christmas Lunch

Rory Ross Little Puds.

Nigel on desert othernesses

Mark Hix on the Case for pastry.

Fed up with Fruit Cakes? So's Ramsey!

3 Xmas things from Jill Dupleix: Red Cabbage.

Salmon and Fennelo caroaccio.

Punch.

Heston Blumenthal on oranges.

Wine and Spirits

Looking forward to some Christmas syrrhosis?

10 wine sins.

Winter wines under £30.

Super plonk.

Bass Ale and Worthington's 1744.

MobyP · December 26, 2003

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This week's selection comes from:

Restaurants

Andrew Anthony at East@West

Terry Durack Jessica's

Matthew Fort - Morgan M

And Morgan M responds on the UK board.

A A Gill - man of the purple - also at East@West.

Features

Hester Lacey on Xmas Food Gifts

Catriona Howatson on the year's best cookery books.

Food

Heston Blumenthal on Mackeral.

Nigel Slater on xmas tidbits

Tom Kime Beyond the Brussels Sprout.

Mark Hix on really odd things to eat at xmas.

Marcus Wareing continues the perfect Christmas Lunch (do Americans know Mince Pies?).

Tamasin Day-Lewis prepares turkey.

Turkey Cooking times.

Gordon Ramsay on Easy Entertaining.

Wine and Spirits

Cellar Notes No. 12.

Anthony Rose.

Winter wines under £30.

Marisol Grandón sparkling wines from all over the world.

Super plonk

MobyP · December 31, 2003

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'Twas the night before the New Year, and a bleak load of rehashed, double-dipped, refried left-overs we have for you.

This week's selection comes from:

Restaurants

Plenty of round-ups this week.

Jan Moir the year's best.

Tracey MacLeod on Restaurants of the year.

AA Gill: Man of the pimple - Round-up.

Giles Coren - Midsummer House.

Jay Rayner - the Wolseley and ubiquitous round-up.

Keith Barker-Main says Papageno is a load of pap. Which is rather uncharitable, especially at this time of year.

Gorgeous pouting Marina O'Loughlin turns it up 'til she knows it got soul.

Features

Matthew Fort - The year in food.

Nigel Slater - What to expect in 2004.

Food

Mark Hix on Leftovers.

Tamasin Day-Lewis - oysters.

Gordon Ramsay's Christmas leftovers.

Wine and Spirits

Anthony Rose - For The Weekend?

The best of British pubs.

MobyP · January 8, 2004

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Another bleak week, I'm afraid....

This week's selection comes from:

Restaurants

Rhodes 24, London.

Tracey MacLeod - picks at Winkles.

Jan Moir - Desperate times, measures - Mycafe.

Giles Coren - does a twofer with The Ebury and Patterson’s.

Fay "I-Hate-Wareing" Maschler opines over Banquette.

Jay Rayner on Miss Damrong's sublime Thai dishes.

Siobhan Murphy, 1492.

Melinda Stevens - Square Pie.

Features

Diana Henry on rethinking your cooking techniques after having a child.

Marina O'Loughlin on how to get the red carpet treatment for 20 quid.

Food

Feeling like an overstuffed armadillo in an evening suit? Mark Hix shows the way.

Gordon Ramsay on post-new years alternatives to taping your mouth shut.

Three more from Jill Dupleix.

Wine and Spirits

Andrew Catchpole on Balinese bubbly and Chinese-style Chablis.

Tim Atkin on abstinence.

Richard Ehrlich on cut-price deals.

Best of British pubs - Adam Edwards visits Glamorgan.

MobyP · January 15, 2004

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This week's selection comes from:

Restaurants

Marina O'Loughlin tucks into the comfort of Le Petit Max.

And then escapes to the best of the Country.

Fay Maschler Salt Whisky Bar and Dining Room.

Matthew Norman travels through Devon and Oxfordshire.

Terry Durack Mehek, London.

Belinda Richardson Blue Kangaroo.

Richard Johnson Le Petit Max.

Giles Coren goes Hogarth on Middle England.

Melinda Stevens on Morgan M.

Features

New Michelin Stars for England! The Fat Duck gets Fatter (from Restaurant magazine).

Christopher Middleton meets Josie Stow a safari chef.

Sybil Kapoor new varieties of potato!

Tamasin Day-Lewis - Sally Clarke.

Nayla Audi - Lebanese road-side food.

Food

Mark Hix - Mediterranean seafood dishes.

'Ere, don't tell the French, but that Gordon Ramsay's got Foreign influences!

Three more from Jill Dupleix.

Wine and Spirits

Super plonk.

Cellar notes #15: Australian Semillon.

Richard Ehrlich More than grapes goes into making wine.

Adam Edwards the best of British pubs. This week: Highgate.

Tim Atkin South Africa has been accused of peppering up its wines.

Andy Lynes · January 21, 2004

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This week's selection comes from:

Restaurants

Siobhan Murphy finds that Essence not so rare.

Fay Maschler tries out chef Andrew Turner's new venture Peridot and Frontline staffed by some ex-Ivy/Le Caprice personnel.

Belinda Richardson travels to The Bell at Skenfrith.

Matthew Fort gives Latium a cautious thumbs up...

...but Terry Durack finds Latium lacking. Meanwhile...

..Tracey Macleod fails to give Patterson's a pat on the back.

Ginny Dougary (in for Giles Coren) at Hibiscus.

AA Gill is doing the Cheyne Walk.

Jay Rayner knows his Alliums.

Features

Terry Durack on the future of The Fat Duck and Matthew Fort has his say as well.

Chris Arnot on rhubarb.

Sybil Kapoor meets NY chef Marcus Samuelsson.

Food

Mark Hix - Rice dishes.

Gordon Ramsay Citrus Suppers.

Jill Dupleix.

Tamasin Day-Lewis - Cassoulet.

Francesco Quirico on Italian home cooking.

Rowley Leigh in The FT.

Wine and Spirits

Super plonk.

Cellar notes #16: Why small is beautiful.

Richard Ehrlich enjoys the winter wine sales.

Andrew Catchpole on half bottles.

Tim Atkin on Chilean reds.

Jancis Robinson rounds up some wine courses.

MobyP · January 29, 2004

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This week's selection comes from:

Restaurants

Harlem, London

Allium, London

Ginny Dougary - Hotel du Vin & Bistro

Matthew Fort - Whatley Manor. Wilts.

Jay Rayner delves into Undershaw's.

AA Gill: man of the pipple: The Goring Hotel.

Luscious Lithe O'Loughlin on Food for Lovers!

then Magnificent Marina examines the bright future of Mehek.

Fay Maschler - Mirto.

Features

The great and Glorious Nicky Perry, of Tea and Sympathy on Greenwich Ave in NYC.

Terry Durack - on the perils of eating for a living (it's called fatbastarditis).

The long and winding road of Women and Food.

The irredeemably 'orrible Michael Winner.

Food

Gordon Ramsay's One-pot wonders.

Mark Hix reveals the boozy secrets of the saucy cook.

3 from Tamasin Day-Lewis.

Feeling like a Winter Picnic, and - well - generally mad? Kate Hawkings!

3 From Jill Dupleix

Nigel Slater on battering his squid.

Wine and Spirits

Cellar notes #17: Vintage value.

Super plonk.

Tim Atkin The Pfalz.

Rioja is finally moving with the times.

Adam Edwards - the best of British pubs: North Yorkshire.

MobyP · February 4, 2004

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This week's selection comes from:

Restaurants

Tracey MacLeod - Anchor & Hope.

Terry Durack the White Swan.

Nicholas Lander definitely gets The Fat Duck.

Jan Moir definitely doesn't get The Fat Duck

Giles Coren - Rhodes Restaurant and Green Roof Inn.

Matthew Fort - Malik's, Cookham, Berkshire.

Jay Rayner Pattersons.

Maschler - Rivington Grill Bar Deli.

Mighty Marina O'Loughlin gives a Fig.

Features

Mark Hix on Fondue.

five intrepid chefs searched the world for desirable delicacies - and brought them home to feast on.

Mangos.

Food

Gordon Ramsey - Flavours of Mauritius.

Tamasin Day-Lewis prepares warming mustard dishes.

Nigel Slater - Light suppers.

Richard Ehrlich - smoked fish.

Wine and Spirits

Richard Ehrlich The screwcap is winning the seal of approval from modern winemakers!

Anthony Rose - the greats of Burgundy.

Cellar notes: The best of Burgundy 2002.

Adam Edwards the best of British.

Tim Atkin - Underarm tactics.

Super plonk.

Roger Protz Fuller's Jack Frost.

MobyP · February 11, 2004

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This week's selection comes from:

Restaurants

Richard Johnson Undershaw Restaurant & Hotel, Surrey

Giles Coren - Plateau Restaurant, Bar & Grill

Jan Moir - Kathy's Bistro.

Matthew Fort - Manicomio, SW3.

Jay Rayner - Paris, Birmingham

Special Marina O'Laughlin Section!

There's no stopping her. This week:

Hartley Bar and Dining Rooms

Seraphin.

and Hamburger Union.

Features

Hester Lacey reveals how little brown critters preserved in butter became Morecambe Bay's caviar.

Michelin honours for widow who kept chef's dream alive.

Mark Palmer - Finding heaven in a half-pounder.

Food

Mark Hix - the hitherto unmentionable joy of pot roasting.

Gordon Ramsay - Dinner a deux.

3 from Jill Dupleix

Nigel Slater on eating his and having it.

Wine and Spirits

Super plonk - "are the bottles in all those enticing mail-order wine advertisements worth it?"

Burgundy is praising its 2002 vintage Burgundy 2002 vintage to the stars. Tim Atkin joins the chorus.

Anthony Rose - Is New Zealand just a one-grape wonder?

Cellar notes #19: From New World to old.

Richard Ehrlich - Pitting your Chilean wines against some of Europe's most desirable bottles!

Andrew Catchpole - Faced with a lengthy and unfamiliar wine list, many of us play it safe.

MobyP · February 18, 2004

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This week's selection comes from:

Restaurants

Marina 'You're gonna get your head kicked in' O'Loughlin, gives the new Novelli a once over. Then she backs up, and does it again!

Giles Coren The Fat Duck

Matthew Fort La Toque, Beeston, Nottingham.

Simon Beckett - Juniper, Cheshire, and a chef who likes to do things a little differently

Terry Durack Le Petit Max.

Tracey MacLeod - Barnsley House.

AA Gill: Man of the Pencil: Lucio

Features

As the Fat Duck wins another award, Jay Rayner goes to have a peep in the mad inventor's shed.

Mark Palmer on Dining cars and the golden age of rail.

Lucy Dawson - the traditional art of smoking.

Iran - The Best Caviar in the World?

The world of Tana Ramsey: the kids, the husband, and the 1/2 Million quid kitchen.

Food

Heston Blumenthal: "Today, I'd like to unveil another technological breakthrough in stock-making: the deep fat fryer. "

Gordon Ramsay's taking the piste.

Francesco Quirico - delving deep into Italian cookery.

Mark Hix on staying home, rumaging through your cupboards, and being in love.

3 from Jill Dupleix.

Wine and Spirits

Tim Atkin Forget the snobbery attached to screw-top bottles.

Ales from the old country.

Super plonk - can you say Boekenhoutskloof?

Cellar notes #20: The Cape crusader.

Anthony Rose - a campaign advertising Burgundy has been banned for associating sex and wine drinking.

MobyP · February 26, 2004

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This week's selection comes from:

Restaurants

Terry Durack the Drunken Monkey.

Matthew Fort goes to the Wolseley, and refuses to leave!

Giles Coren - "The Anchor and Hope is the most exciting new restaurant I have been to since I started writing this column."

Jay Rayner on 1880.

AA Gill: Man of the Poople: Salt Whisky Bar & Dining Room.

Marina O'Loughlin, Number 10

Features

Rick Stein venture could revive the fortunes of Newquay.

Jan Moir the best places for dining alone.

Food

Mark Hix liberates the exotic cauliflower.

Heston Blumenthal - The crunch factor.

Nigel Slater on the love between a man and his pig.

Gordon Ramsay's Pancakes.

Wine and Spirits

Richard Ehrlich on exploding the myths of wine storage.

Anthony Rose "For the first time ever, Australia bundled the French into second place last year as the biggest supplier of take-home wine in this country."

Cellar notes #21: Buy your Rhône.

Adam Edwards visits Oxfordshire - King's Head Inn.

"The secret of buying Italian wine is to be adventurous," says Andrew Catchpole

Tim Atkin New Zealand may be stuck in the 1970s, but its wines are way ahead.

MobyP · March 3, 2004

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This week's selection comes from:

Restaurants

Tracey MacLeod - Destino, London

Jan Moir - Pappagano

Matthew Fort - Le Champignon Sauvage.

Giles Coren - Bonds

Jay Rayner - The Anchor and Hope.

AA Gill: mung of the pipple: Anchor & Hope.

Features

Catriona Howatson rounds up the latest cookery books.

A Provençal cookery school seduces Casilda Grigg

Food

Nigel Slater at the root of it all...

Mark Hix likes it on the bone.

Heston Blumenthal - perfect fennel? the microwave!

Gordon Ramsay's Seventies classics.

Wine and Spirits

A three-day conference devoted to New Zealand Pinot Noir demonstrates how far the wine has come in 20 years.

Anthony Rose The anatomy of a wine scandal.

2003 Bodega Lurton Pinot Gris; 2003 Jackson Estate Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc; 2000 Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe, Châteauneuf- du-Pape.

Tim Atkin remembers the days when Alsace wines were still recognisably dry.

Cellar notes #22: Tasting a modern classic.

Joanna Simon ABC: anything but chardonnay.

Andy Lynes · March 19, 2004

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This week's selection comes from:

Restaurants

Fay Maschler - Aurora

Ed Sullivan - Number 10.

Tracey MacLeod - The Snooty Fox, Lowick.

Terry Durack - Anchor & Hope, London.

Jan Moir - called to The Cabinet

Matthew Fort - The Coach and Horses and The Falcon Inn.

Giles Coren - Harlem, West London.

Jay Rayner - Rhubarb, Edinburgh.

AA Gill: muses on eating one's own penis at 1880.

Features

The new Observer Food Monthly

Food

Nigel Slater onOctopus.

Mark Hix with some tasty looking rhubarb recipes.

Heston Blumenthal - low temperature cooking.

Gordon Ramsay's Mother's Day menu.

Alex Mackay shows you how to plan for good fast food.

Shumi's Lee Purcell prepares carppaccio.

Wine and Spirits

Superplonk

Jonathan Ray travels to New Zealand to meet an organic winemaker.

Anthony Rose on new bottle shapes.

Tim Atkin's home truths.

Cellar notes #24: Tuscan Connection.

Joanna Simon: sauce.

Jane MacQuitty : California drinking.

MobyP · March 24, 2004

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This week's selection comes from:

Restaurants

Terry Durack - Harry Morgan's

Richard Johnson The Greyhound, Buckinghamshire

Marina O'Loughlin - Inc Bar & Restaurant

Jan Moir - Refettorio

Matthew Fort - The Gallery, Leeds

Giles Coren Imperial China

Jay Rayner Refettorio

AA Gill: Homo of the Sapiens: Sardo

Features

This isn't just pâtisserie, this is art.

Mastering the basic techniques of Indian cookery

Learn how a Michelin-starred chef Shaun Hill picks his produce

Leaving children to their own devices in the kitchen is no bad thing, says Kate Hawkings.

Food

Claudia Roden serves up two Turkish delights

Mark Hix why not make room (and a little time) for home-baked cakes

Gordon Ramsay's In praise of the potato

3 from Jill Dupleix

Heston Blumenthal - low temperature cooking

Wine and Spirits

Richard Ehrlich Cognac is enjoying a revival thanks to help from an unlikely source.

Anthony Rose Cellar notes #25: A taste of South Africa

Something For The Weekend?

Would you pay £34,466.88 for a bottle of Spanish wine? Super plonk

Tim Atkin Ernest & Julio have finally made a drinkable wine...

Joanna Simon - on the sauce

Adam Edwards best of British pubs. This week, Rose Cottage Inn

MobyP · April 1, 2004

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This week's selection comes from:

Restaurants

Terry Durack- The Greyhound Inn, Stockbridge,

Tracey MacLeod Refettorio, London,

Matthew Fort 8 over 8

Giles Coren does Southall.

Jay Rayner - Winkles

AA somebody: Man of the something or other. Tate Modern Restaurant. Possibly.

Fay Maschler, Chapter One

Features

Big rewards for little chefs - teaching children about good food.

Terry Durack launches a campaign for a new golden age of fish and chips.

Richard Ehrlich Rwanda's Maraba Bourbon coffee.

Food

Mark Hix puts on a show for an Oscars party.

Tamasin Day-Lewis - Yorkshire pub into a gastro phenomenon.

3 from Jill Dupleix.

These days, Aussie cookery has a cuisine that, like its people, is a heady mix of European and south-east Asian traditions.

Hester Blumenthal A bug in the system.

Claudia Roden A little Italy.

Wine and Spirits

Super plonk

Anthony Rose Roll out the barrel.

Rachel Simhon the Sonoma region.

Joanna Simon: Sauce.

Cellar notes #26: Best in show.

2002 Sainsbury's Reserve Selection Corbières; 2003 Shaw & Smith Sauvignon Blanc; 2001 Paul Cluver Elgin Pinot Noir

Tim Atkin Safeway's takeover opens the floodgates to 'value' wines.

MobyP · April 7, 2004

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This week's selection comes from:

Restaurants

Jay Rayner tucks into Hamburger Union.

Terry Durack Manicomio.

Tracey MacLeod - Inside Out, Walton-le-Dale, Lancs.

Giles Coren - Refettorio.

Jan Moir - Lord's Tavern Bar & Brasserie

AA Gill ex Machina: Taman Gang.

Features

Lorna Thorpe's drinking feeling.

Luxury food deliveries.

Chris Arnot goes in search of perfect pastry.

Casilda Grigg puts this year’s Chocolate Easter eggs to the test.

Food

Tamasin Day-Lewis turns recycled ingredients into a feast

Gordon Ramsay's Easter lamb.

Nigel Slater on Fleeting foods.

Mark Hix on making good stock.

3 from Jill Dupleix.

Wine and Spirits

Tim Atkin on wine pronunciation.

Sauce: Joanna Simon

Andrew Catchpole Sherry's reputation as a sickly tipple for the elderly boozer is depriving British drinkers of a characterful partner for all kinds of food,

Super plonk.

Anthony Rose

Cellar notes #27: Finders keepers.

Something For The Weekend?

MobyP · April 16, 2004

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This week's selection comes from:

Restaurants

Terry Durack - The West House, Biddenden, Kent

Tracey MacLeod - Kanteen, at K West Hotel, London W14

Jan Moir - Al Bustan

Jay Rayner Sticklebackpink.

AA Gill: Mooch of the Pupple: YMing.

More-ish Marina O'Laughlin in Cheap nosh thrill!

Features

How to be a happy pig. Jonathan Ray on Jabugo ham.

Sybil Kapoor - gets in on Raymond Blanc's do.

The Ten Best: Food mixers.

Rick Stein has just added a chippy to his ever-expanding business empire – but success has come at a high personal price.

If you thought Gordon Ramsay had gone soft, think again.

Food

Heston Blumenthal - The bitter end.

Mark Hix - chocolate martinis to be drunk, and home-made truffles to be nibbled.

Alex Mackay - The smart way to shop for fish.

Victoria Moore - Using Marsala.

Francesco Quirico - A little tiff in Italy.

Wine and Spirits

Richard Ehrlich - Supermarkets are criminals out to mug suppliers, small rivals and you.

Anthony Rose - Australia's great white (and red) hope.

Cellar notes #28: Adelaide Hills gold.

Super plonk.

Sauce: Joanna Simon - Pink Champagne

MobyP · April 21, 2004

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This week's selection comes from:

Restaurants

Terry Durack - Levantine, London W2.

Marina O'Loughlin - 2 Wiseass Wozzas.

Richard Johnson - Number 10, London W10.

Giles Coren - Brunello and Mirto.

Matthew Fort - Effings, Totnes, Devon.

Jay Rayner - Anthony's, Leeds.

Features

Andrew Catchpole - The first Welsh whisky for 100 years.

Get your raw ingredients from the same place as the Ivy.

The thrilling cuisine of neighbouring Laos that could well be the next big thing.

Food

Nigel Slater - no cook can manage without a wedge of Parmesan.

Kate Hawkings - The British don't eat Bunny!

Mark Hix - Parmesan: The big cheese.

Gordon Ramsay - Kitchen Heaven

Heston Blumenthal - Monster mash.

Wine and Spirits

Tim Atkin - The best Cape wines are less than a decade old.

Four top-flight wines from the Rainbow Nation.

Richard Ehrlich - "The glug-net though still lags behind in the development of a specialised on-line forum to match www.eGullet.com"

Anthony Rose - A first taste of the class of '03.

Cellar notes #29: Pick of Bordeaux 2003.

2003 Douglas Green Cinsaut Pinotage 2002; Saint Véran Blason de Bourgogne 2003; Villa Maria Clifford Bay Sauvignon Blanc.

Super plonk.

Joanna Simon Chardonnay is out — sauvignon blanc is in.

MobyP · April 28, 2004

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This week's selection comes from:

Restaurants

Jay Rayner - 6 go mad at The Old Passage Inn, Arlingham, Gloucestershire.

Terry Durack - Chapter Two, Blackheath Village, London SE3.

Tracey MacLeod - The West House, Biddenden, Kent.

Jan Moir - One Paston Place.

Giles Coren - Mosaica, N17.

Matthew Fort Mar i Terra, London

India Knight: Yauatcha

Features

How far would you go for a good meal? The rise of the 'gastrotourist'.

It's not just the chef or the maitr d' who makes for a fine fine-dining experience, as more and more restaurants hire very expensive designers to set the tone.

Food

Nigel Slater - posh lunch.

Mark Hix has spring in his sights.

More recipes you granny is glad she forgot from Gordon Ramsey

3 more recipes your great-granny is glad she forgot from Jill Dupleix.

Heston Blumenthal - broccoli.

Kate and Rory Gibson - Viva Mexico!

Wine

Tim Atkin - Technocrat or not, Aussie Brian Croser's wine wisdom has a lot of bottle.

Anthony Rose - A cultural revolution in Chinatown.

Cellar notes #30: Mourvèdre.

Andrew Catchpole - Dukes of Burgundy.

Super plonk.

Sauce: Joanna Simon.

MobyP · May 5, 2004

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This week's selection comes from:

Restaurants

Jan Moir - Cipriani.

Jay Rayner - Inn the Park, St James's Park, London SW1.

Richard Johnson - Yauatcha.

Terry Durack - Yauatcha.

Matthew Fort - Muddy Waters, Essex.

What do you get if you cross a goat with Chemical plant from Minsk? A A Gill: Man of the People: Winkles.

Features

Terry Durack on the sorry state of fish and chips.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is on a mission – to educate consumers that it is their moral responsibility to know under what conditions their food is reared and slaughtered.

Food

Nigel Slater - Bring in the spring.

3 more death defyingly unexciting dishes from Ramsey!

Nayla Audi - the home cooking of Southern Lebanon.

Mark Hix plays with the pig.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has a new book coming, The River Cottage Meat Book. Today - Roasting.

Wine

Anthony Rose From Bordeaux to the New World.

Cellar notes #31: War in cyberspace.

Super plonk - pinot noir.

Tim Atkin - Coming up rosé.

Joanna Simon - South Africa’s pinotage grape is starting to produce some stylish red wines.

MobyP · May 11, 2004

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This week's selection comes from:

Restaurants

Terry Durack The Zetter, London EC1.

Tracey MacLeod - Inn the Park, London SW1

Giles Coren - Inn The Park.

Jan Moir - Le Cercle

Matthew Fort - Manicomio, London EC4.

AA Gill: molé est da peeple: 1492.

Jay Rayner Elena's L'Etoile, 30 Charlotte Street, London W10

Features

Star chef, glitzy restaurateur, Brazil's social darling. But not long ago, Dada was living in poverty.

The River Cottage Meat Book, part two: slow cooking.

Food

Nigel Slater - crushing fresh peppercorns.

Mark Hix - salad days.

Hugh's slow cooking recipes.

3 from Jill Dupleix.

Francesco Quirico - 3 recipes from slow food.

Heston Blumenthal the difference between taste and flavour.

Wine

Super Plonk "The really good, cheap stuff in those days was not, in fact, the cheapest - and, today, it is among the most luxurious wines of all."

Tim Atkin - One hitch to getting married is the bar bill - unless you buy it in France

Jonathan Ray meets the Bob Dylan fanatic who is producing extraordinary wines in a neglected corner of Italy.

Richard Ehrlich - Rosé is the great, mindless gluggable drink.

Anthony Rose - Don't turn your nose up at vins de pays.

Cellar notes#32: And in the red corner.

MobyP · May 18, 2004

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This week's selection comes from:

Restaurants

Terry Durack - Inn the Park, London SW1.

Richard Johnson - Crazy Bear.

Belinda Richardson - Marrakech and Howard's House.

Trencherwoman reviews Margot's.

Giles Coren - Yauatcha.

Matthew Fort - Quartier Vert, Bristol.

Jay Rayner - Morgan M

Features

Anthony Flinn, just 24, has gone from a provincial catering college to Britain's brightest culinary hope in short order, and Michelin stars are sure to follow.

Atul Kochhar's new book don't look like the fare on offer at your local Indian.

"Everyone knows one - the friend who, when they realise a restaurant bill is going to be split among all diners, orders the truffles, followed by the lobster, washed down with a bottle or two of Montrachet."

"Every morning, thousands of Hanoi citizens start the day with a steaming bowl of 'pho' - the street food at the heart of Vietnam's life and culinary renaissance."

Food

From wafer-thin Sardinian carasau to hearty French fougasse, Mark Hix reveals why flatbreads mean more than just pizza.

Frying, stir-frying and grilling recipes.

3 from Jill Dupleix.

Kate Hawking's fishy tales.

Gordon Ramsay's Summer puddings.

Heston Blumenthal - The appliance of science.

Nigel Slater - Dangerous liaisons.

Wine und booze

Anthony Rose "At this time of year, a wine writer's fancy turns to thoughts of ... spring-cleaning."

Cellar notes #33: Bring on the Dom.

Andrew Catchpole looks for the Perfect Pint.

Tim Atkin - Does money grow on vines?

Super Plonk.

Tim Atkin - Paradise aisles.

MobyP · May 27, 2004

Apologies - there will be no digest for the last weekend 22nd/23rd May. Programing will resume next week. :smile:

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