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Fresh crab salad and 17 year old Muscadet (and yes, you did read that right!)
Posted on June 14 2010 at 15:20
Apologies for returning once again to the subject of crab but it is one of my favourite summer foods and this was the outstanding match of last week.
Cheese and Château Bouscassé Vieilles Vignes 2000
Posted on December 7 2009 at 07:46
As those of you who are familiar with this site will know I’ve got issues about drinking red wine with cheese. It may seem an obvious partnership but all too often it seems a warring one.
Magdalen Chapter, Exeter: a night in the operating room
Posted on July 26 2012 at 07:50
So many institutions are being converted into hotels these days that one should feel no great surprise at staying at a former eye hospital. But I must confess to feeling a shade queasy at spending a night in the operating room* at the Magdalen Chapter in Exeter - particularly when I spotted the drain in the floor down which many unspeakable fluids must have been sluiced . . .
