Category: The Beat
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Pink Crab Tagliatelle
Yet another spaghetti you say? Why yes, yes this is because spaghetti, pasta are spring summer foods; easy food and I love it, I love making it, so simple and it makes me feel accomplished when throwing things together AND, they are accompanied by typically easy ingredients that you have knocking about in your pantry;…
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The French 75: 3 ways
I am something of a cocktail connoisseur; I love a good cocktail. I have had the best daiquiri in the world, I was that cliché in Havana going to El Floridita, Hemmingway’s old hangout, the cradle of the daiquiri, to try out the drink and true to form I have not found anything quite like…
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Liquid Gold Spaghetti
I love pasta, spaghetti and generally Italian food duh! I find the culinary exploits of the country a homage to history and a romanticism in its undercurrent. A lot of its culinary expertise come from necessity, the grit of the poor and good God do they love offal. I grew up on offal mostly and…
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Salad for Summer… Groundbreaking
And it really is. One thing about me, I am always going to rebuff a salad unless I absolutely have to and when I go to my sister’s, I have to because they are connoisseurs of good food and salads. I don’t like salads, and you almost have to tie me down and force down…
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The Summer Gin & Tonic Twist
It’s simple, its darling and its the perfect cocktail for the summer. I have never been so enamoured with Gin and Tonic until a friend of mine introduced me to the perfect moment to have it; on a summer evening in Paris having walked the length and breadth of the city, post dinner and before…
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The Summer Cocktail | The Lemon Twist
What do you do when you find yourself awake from an eight-hour night that started at 7pm? Make yourself a lemon martini of course. I am obviously in my lemon era what with all the posts from the Amalfi coast and missing the lemons especially, so I decided one night at 3am to make myself…
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Adolescence
It takes a village to raise a child they say, and Adolescence turns the lens on the village responsible for the child. In the weeks since the release of this series on Netflix we have had the government lauding the subject matter and even the Prime Minister going so far as to suggest the series…
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The Kitchen Table: Broccoli
Broccoli is the only veggie I will eat for free, everything else is under duress. If you see me eating peas know that I am being blackmailed because peas are the worst vegetable ever grown. I’d eat cabbage before peas, and I don’t even like cabbage and don’t you get me on my feelings about…
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IL David di Michelangelo
Masterpiece is a word that gets thrown around too often for it to mean anything these days but in some respects it is a befitting word, maybe even inadequate. La Primavera is, in my opinion, the masterpiece when compared to Venus. The Flat Iron building in Manhattan is an architectural masterpiece. Tutu by Ben Enwonu…