Get the haggis right at your Burns supper January 23, 2012 If you’re thinking of hosting your own Burns night, the haggis should be the star of the show. Contrary to the belief of many south of the border, a well cooked haggis is far more than a bag of offal. Quality haggis contains an aromatic blend of spices and oatmeal, with meat as high quality [...]
EXPERT VIEW: WHISKY January 23, 2012 HEAD OF DISTILLING AND WHISKY CREATION AT GLENMORANGIE An exceptional malt whisky is an essential part of Burns Night celebrations to toast the life writings of Scotland’s best-known poet and to pair with traditional Burns Night supper dishes. Whisky is often enjoyed throughout the meal to toast the haggis, the memory of Robert Burns and [...]
More cruise liner than chic January 23, 2012 Kitchen Joël Antunès 29 Old Burlington Street, London, W1S 3AN T: 020 7494 5660 FOOD * SERVICE ** ATMOSPHERE * Cost per person without wine: £65 Legends aren’t what they used to be. Almost anyone can be one. You have to do something pretty heinous to be both famous and dead and not be called [...]
Lobster and burgers, folks… that’s it January 23, 2012 THE vogue for culinary simplicity has been around for a while. The shorter the menu, the better – after all, asks the modern diner, how can caviar, steak, chicken, risotto and a thousand other dishes from one kitchen and one staff be fresh, made with the best of the day’s ingredients? Well, the guys behind [...]
A lesson learned on Canada’s wine January 23, 2012 HEAD SOMMELIER AND MANAGER OF LUTYENS RESTAURANT As is typical in the London restaurant scene, we have a very international team at Lutyens. My assistant Andres is from Canada and, as he went home for Christmas, he brought in some Canadian wine for us to try. There is comparatively little Canadian wine in the UK [...]
Limbering up for a brilliant ski January 23, 2012 LIKE many a busy office worker, I failed to prepare for my recent ski holoday. And I’m paying the price with a stiffness of gait and inelegance of posture that simply can’t be attractive. Don’t make the same mistake. Here are some ways to limber up so that you’re able to walk from slopes to [...]
EPISODE 43 – A FRAZZLED START TO THE DAY January 23, 2012 I WISH I could say the radio alarm had failed. But I can’t. Anyway, with infant twins in the house, neither bugle call nor drum roll is ever required for reveille. Nevertheless, at 6.45am I’m already 45 minutes behind schedule. The Perth flight leaves at 11am and it’s clear I won’t make it into the [...]
HERON’S PEAK SIGNS UP TWO NEW TENANTS January 22, 2012 PROPERTY tycoon Gerald Ronson’s Heron International has leased the first and third floor of its Peak office development in Victoria to Reed Executive, the recruitment firm and David Sainsbury’s Gatsby Charitable Foundation, for £65 per square foot.
When skiing becomes more like snow-flying January 22, 2012 The American satirist PJ O’Rourke had little time for snow sports. As he put it: “Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.” That might not have been so bad for O’Rourke – he is famous [...]
TOP GEAR January 22, 2012 1) Swatch Snowpass Watch Do you find lift passes annoying? Hate having to shuffle around trying to get the right pocket up to the scanner? The Swatch Snowpass is designed to help – it includes a RFID chip rather like the ones in most lift passes. The idea is that when you buy your pass, [...]