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Since we got back from Wonderful Copenhagen (17 days ago), I have cooked a meal only once. ONCE! It was a coq au vin, the kind of thing this African winter weather requires, and as far as I can remember, it was alright – not quite fantastic, but good enough on the night. Not good [...]

To celebrate the beginning of eel-season, they’ve distilled the slippery buggers into a drink. Eel is apparently cooler than we think. ‘Kazunori Hayashi, spokesman for Japan Tobacco Inc, the makers of the drink, said it is “mainly for men who are exhausted by the summer’s heat”.’ (From The Independent, which also reports on Japanese Pepsi [...]

So we made it back in one piece from a ten day jaunt in Wonderful Copenhagen, as it’s known, and which is mostly true in summer when the sun hardly sets and the Danes really do appear to be a happy bunch with few cares in the world. We took to the streets on borrowed [...]

If you plan to drink more than one in the time it takes for a litre of tomato juice to go off, do yourself a favour and pretend you’re a bar. In other words, do a major muddle. Mix 1 l tomato cocktail with: plenty tabasco good glug of Worcestershire sauce 1 good pinch of [...]

So it’s been a week since our return from the US of A (where we finished the trip in grand style with a meal at the establishment closest to our New York hotel in the dubiously named but conveniently close-to-JFK “suburb” of Jamaica: Burger King. I had something called crisp-’n-chickeny or chick’n-crisp or such like, [...]