Just off Streedagh beach looking onto Donegal Bay – the most amazing collection of edible seaweeds: sugar kelp, dulse, sea spaghetti, pepper dulse, carrageenan, sea lettuce, velvet horn, bladderwrack, alaria and a very pretty pink seaweed (erect coralline) which is also pure …
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FreeFrom all’Italiana with Anna del Conte – stocking filler!!
Your Christmas present problems solved...... Any of you who know Anna's wonderful books on Italian food – Gastronomy of Italy, The Classic Food of Northern Italy, Amaretto, Apple Cake and Artichokes and many, many more, will be delighted to hear that she has turned her …
Enjoying the new loo library
Those of you who have visited Lawn Road on occasion may remember the rather snug, but friendly first floor loo – the one with the discreet but very efficient Victorian lock that no one can ever find!! Well, thanks to our new high pressure hot water system, it has undergone a …
The chef’s view….
Last week at the Food and Drink Innovation Network's annual FreeFrom seminar, Chef Dominic Teague explained how he came, last year, to relaunch Indigo, the much-loved restaurant at five star West End hotel, One Aldwych with a totally gluten and dairy free menu. A menu, be it …
Cultural Kirkwall – and bere (pronounced bear) barley
For a very small town (population round 9,000) whose surrounding fields you can see from its centre, Kirkwall has a fine collection of antique buildings. This is what's left of the 16th century bishop's palace (replacing 12th century, 13th century and 14th century palaces) which …