by Lawrence Roullier White | Jan 10, 2017 | Food and Drink, News
January may be the month when we would all like to cocoon ourselves away and drink cocoa under cashmere blankets – but life must go on. Like it or not we will have to cater the occasional event. Coming after a month when at every gathering everything that...
by Lawrence Roullier White | Dec 16, 2016 | Food and Drink, News
Now Here’s the Thing: Slow Coffee. It is a source of somewhat amusement to see Slow Coffee being introduced as a new trend, there is nothing new about steeping coffee slowly through paper filters. Although the apparatus was hard to come by, back in the day there...
by Lawrence Roullier White | Nov 23, 2016 | Features, Food and Drink, News
It is that time of year when we move the party indoors and start to cocoon with family and friends, as the evenings get longer and the fire becomes ever more tempting. Having spent the summer flitting from one social event to another the winter provides a comforting...
by Lawrence Roullier White | Oct 27, 2016 | Food and Drink, News
The worst mistake anyone can make at any domestic drinks party is to try to run a professional cocktail bar. Spirits will be used at different rates making it almost impossible to meet your guests’ requests and you will spend all night mixing and shaking, if not...
by Lawrence Roullier White | Sep 26, 2016 | Food and Drink, News
The 18th century Gin Craze took hold in a big way, the average Londoner drank 14 gallons a year and London had 7000 establishments selling the stuff. In the slums and unsanitary conditions gin was safer to drink than water and people readily got hooked. The widespread...
