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Jack’s Dessert Triumph
Normally, restaurant reviews follow a formula: surroundings and ambience, background, perhaps, then a meander through the starter, main course and dessert.
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A Summer Feast
On an early morning jaunt to Stockbridge I decided to browse the bookshelves in the Golden Hare book shop at St Stephen Street. The colourful spine of the cookery book ‘Feasts’, by Sabrina Ghayour, stimulated my taste buds.
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Vegan Afternoon Tea (Or Not)
I love the concept of afternoon tea. Long summer afternoons filled with cucumber sandwiches and the distant thwack of a cricket ball; short autumn afternoons curled up beside a roaring fire.
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Message In A Bottle
MILK!
Tasting the top of the cream from the Wee Isle Dairy milk bottle evoked many childhood memories of my first year milk project at secondary school.
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Venice – Four Seasons of Home Cooking
Browsing the Main Street Trading Company, an independent bookshop in St Boswells, I was drawn to this cookery book for two good reasons.
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Eyes On The Pie
Simple Simon’s Perfect Pies might be a bit of a mouthful, but once discovered, it’s a name you might want to keep on the tip of your tongue.
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