Published Food and Wine Articles

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Here you'll find a collection of past articles I've published - mainly for Decanter, but also for magazines such as Sainsbury's Magazine and BBC Homes and Antiques

Recent articles

  How to pair wine with an authentic Indian meal
Oct 14, 2011
Not only is it Chocolate Week but National Curry Week so I thought it might be worth a re-run of this piece I wrote on a tasting with food writer Vicky Bhogal about how to match wine with home-cooked Indian food - one of the most popular articles on the site.
  Chocolate and Fine Wine Matching
Oct 12, 2011
It's Chocolate Week, in case it has escaped your notice, so here's a reminder of a brilliant tasting I attended with winemaker - and chocolatier - Roberto Bava a couple of years ago which gave some fascinating insights into chocolate and wine pairing.
  Flavour matching with Niki Segnit
Jun 3, 2011
Niki Segnit scooped her second major prize at the Guild of Food Writers Awards last night for her brilliantly innovative book The Flavour Thesaurus (it had already picked up an André Simon award for best food book of the year). Here's how she came to write it and how we applied her approach to a food and wine matching session in London.
  Are the world’s top restaurants letting down winelovers?
May 21, 2011

Given Jancis Robinson's article in the FT today (and a longer version on her own website) I thought I'd republish an article I wrote in Decanter three years ago about the difficulties of eating in the world's top restaurants
  Fine Wine and Fast Food
Apr 27, 2011
Yes, you can drink a treasured bottle with your takeaway!
  Daniel Boulud: America's favourite Frenchman sets out to conquer London
Jul 8, 2010
The recently opened Bar Boulud in Knightsbridge - the latest outpost in Daniel Boulud's burgeoning empire - has attracted rave reviews but what is the man behind it really like and how does he think he'll adjust to being in London? Here's what he said when I interviewed him a few months ago for Decanter magazine
  A Tuscan olive oil harvest
Mar 13, 2010
A report on a trip to Tuscany I made last November to report on the olive oil harvest at Fattoria La Vialla.
  Five easy ways to impress your family and friends this New Year's Eve
Dec 30, 2009
A re-run of an article I wrote this time last year for Decanter with some ingenious ideas from The Old Convent in Co. Tipperary which would work well for New Year entertaining.
  Christmas pairings with port, sherry and madeira
Dec 3, 2009
A selection of ideas - some classic, others a little more off-beat.
  How to buy the best chocolate
Oct 14, 2009

What to look for and why more isn't necessarily better when it comes to cocoa solids
 
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