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La Paulée de KFC: A Celebration of Four Decades 17 Mar 2011 | 10:49 pm
The Colonel & I Kentucky Fried Chicken was the apotheosis of my childhood culinary diet. I cannot recall the exact date of Southend-on-Sea’s manna from heaven, that is to say, when the first KFC bran...
A Life Through Song 15 Feb 2011 | 10:44 pm
Originally, “A Life Through Wine” was to partner “A Life Through Song”. Alas the former turned into a bit of a magnum opus and so please excuse the delay. These are forty songs that I spent hours and...
A Life Through Wine 11 Feb 2011 | 11:48 pm
February 12th 2011. On this day, I turn 40. It has an age that has always seemed a lifetime away, even when I was 39½. 2011? That was ten years after Kubrick’s Space Odyssey and twelve years after ...
A Message from Neal (Age 39.99) – 11th February 2011 11 Feb 2011 | 10:55 pm
I should write something and apologize for the lack of updates over the last couple of months. It has simply been a case of workload. As I wrote at the end of 2010, last year I published over 10,000 w...
Wine-Journal’s Wines of 2010 22 Dec 2010 | 10:34 pm
Well, another twelve pages of the calendar have passed, during which a tidal wave of fermented grape juice in all its kaleidoscopic manifestations (white, red, rosé and corked) has broken over the bre...
The Atlantic Jewel: Madeira 1795 To Today 20 Dec 2010 | 10:36 pm
“The increasing refusal of the modern world to leave fine wines to age makes it probable, and sad, that our grandchildren will never drink a superb Madeira” – William Golding Outed Maintaining one’s...
Monday 29th November 6 Dec 2010 | 08:10 pm
Intense working all day (as usual) and then in the evening, into London to 28-50 for dinner with David Wainwright and fellow wine-lovers. He is showing an eclectic selection of wines for the upcoming ...
Sunday 28th November 6 Dec 2010 | 08:05 pm
Mum and dad up for Sunday roast. The temperature is now down to one degree Kelvin, so their trip to the playground with Lily and Daisy ends up in Sainsburys. I plough on with the pork, contemplating w...
Saturday 27th November 6 Dec 2010 | 12:24 pm
A monumental day. I am attempting to make puff pastry. Hold the front page! I have avoided pastry up until today, Saturday 27th 2010. It is beyond my comfort zone and my culinary comfort zone is the s...
Thursday 25th November 6 Dec 2010 | 11:57 am
Yours truly with the lovely Dawn. Picture courtesy of Jamie (wineanorak.com) Goode Up to Roberson Wine Merchant to tutor their Pomerol tasting, including gems such as Lafleur 1995 and Petrus 1952. I ...
