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Review: The Chilli Pickle, Brighton

[singlepic id=95 w=240 h=180 float=right]Oooo… lovely. A cup of steaming hot chai, sweet and spicy and milky and deeply reviving. Exactly as you’d get it from a good chai-wallah in Delhi. In fact it takes me straight back to the spice market in Jodhpur, or the book seller in Udaipur. While I got sick to …

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Apple soufflé with white chocolate parfait

[singlepic id=90 w=320 h=240 float=right]I spend more time reading food blogs now that I have a food blog. Inevitable perhaps, but I’ve certainly learned some new things to do with favourite ingredients and I’ve got some good tips for restaurants to try (and others to steer clear of). It’s a nice way to while away …

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Beetroot and black pudding salad (no bird)

[singlepic id=88 w=320 h=240 float=right]You won’t find any decomposing bird carcasses in this salad recipe. While you recover from that truly horrible thought, perhaps you can help me out. What exactly is the definition of a salad? The dictionary tells me that it is a cold dish that includes green leaves such as lettuce. This …

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Foodie’s day out, Bath-style

[singlepic id=81 w=320 h=240 float=right]Whenever I visit Bath, and I do visit at least three or four times every year, Saturday morning is invariably given over to a jaunt down to Green Park Station for the weekly Farmer’s Market. Of course, it seems that every town in the land can now boast a Farmer’s Market, …

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Review: The Pony and Trap, Somerset

[singlepic id=80 w=320 h=320 float=right]The Pony and Trap came as a bit of a surprise when we bundled in out of the rainy car park this evening. I’m used to Michelin-starred pubs being of a particular style. Still pubs, sure, but very much the kind of public house where the squire and the landlord might …

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