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Archive for November, 2011

As the (last) recession crept up, pubs and restaurants got a lot of airtime. And not for a good reason. Back in 2009, 52 pubs were closing each week and there was just a 20% chance that a restaurant would survive its first two years. Scrimping and saving was having a knock-on effect, and the [...]

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For the past four mounts, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has been vegetarian. Good on him. I often think that I could be vegetarian too – well, until someone puts a steak in front of me…or a pork pie, a roast chicken, a Cornish pasty…you get the point. I was in fact vegetarian when I was about ten [...]

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My first foray into the world of chutney took place purely by accident. One evening in August I asked Tom if he could pick up one of those market-sized bowls of tomatoes on his way to the flat. An hour later, he still wasn’t back. I was starting to worry. Then, with a big flourish [...]

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Wow Nandos. Really. Wow.

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There are over 150 different languages spoken in India. Whether it’s one of the 422 million Hindi speakers or one of the 38,000 Lepcha speakers, it seems like everyone has a different word referring to the same thing. It’s not just the language that changes every time you get off a train, but the food [...]

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Back from Kerala about a stone heavier, covered in mosquito bites and buzzing from an epic adventure. We travelled between Fort Cochin, Ooty and Alleppy on trains, buses, and boat. We infiltrated the Maharaja of Mysore’s summer palace, had an epiphany over the actual meaning of ‘masala’, and Tom narrowly escaped serious injury after throwing [...]

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I had a haircut over the weekend. They lopped off about six inches. The first few minutes of chopping were pretty exciting. But I have a 40 minute attention span—and once that had elapsed it became agony. The snipping of individual hairs. Ten minutes deciding where my parting should go. Spritzing and stroking everything into [...]

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