The amazing everlasting chocolate bar
[caption id="attachment_2619" align="aligncenter" width="499"] Mathematics - especially geometry - cannot lie. This chocolate bar lasts forever.[/caption] ...
Category Archives: Treats
Lapostolle and Grand Marnier
My enthusiasm for the wines of Chile continues to grow, a long-smoldering ember fanned into flames by my...
Midnight Train to Gorge-ya
It has been a very long time since I received a toy train for Christmas. This year it...
Quinces
[caption id="attachment_2317" align="alignleft" width="300"] A towering Thomas of Quinces[/caption] Anita Stewart dropped by after Soupstock and gave me...
On the road
[caption id="attachment_2203" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Alongside a quay in Stockholm, this extraordinary piece of art draws attention to the...
Tea fit for Olympians
[caption id="attachment_2194" align="alignleft" width="619" caption="Adam Kreek, gold medal, Beijing, 2008"][/caption] Some time ago I was given a small...
Good Stuff
Time flashes by, doesn’t it? Last weekend I was girding my loins in preparation of emceeing Terroir, the...
Toad in the Hole
One of the things that has given me most pleasure in the last few years is to watch...
Christmas in London
[caption id="attachment_1733" align="alignleft" width="269" caption="Lodovico - bravissimo"][/caption] This is Lodovico, a most self-possessed and well-behaved infant. He and...
Four pre-Christmas treats and one post-
[caption id="attachment_1726" align="alignleft" width="248" caption="Liquored salmon belly at Starfish Oyster Bed: is Patrick McMurray a genius or what?"][/caption]...