Water of Life Whisky is a shortened form of usquebaugh, which the English borrowed from Gaelic (Irish uisce beatha and Scottish uisge beatha). This compound descends from Old Irish uisce, “water”, and bethad, “of life” and meaning literally “water of life”. I recently received a lovely gift box of award winning Irish Whiskey. Although difficult, [...]
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When the lovely folks over at Abel & Cole sent me a fabulous selection of drinks to review, there was hidden amongst them a bottle of Prospect Sussex Pale Ale. Prospect is a traditional 4.5% Ale brewed by Hepworth& Co. a brewery based in Horsham, West Sussex (who also produce the Blonde Lager I reviewed a [...]
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Orange cordial is something I find very thirst quenching but hardly ever buy. The amount of sugar, colourants and other preservatives most contain scares me somewhat; even the brands marketed as healthy have an ingredients list that surely baffles all but the most food aware and scientific consumers out there. What with Christmas around the [...]
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A couple of weeks back a lovely friend of mine, Kerry Anne, from New Zealand sent me a lovely collection of food magazines, Dish, Cuisine and Australian Vogue Entertaining + Travel. I have to confess that all three are of a much higher standard than the ones gracing our newsagent shelves here in the UK. [...]
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Another drink review for you. This time it is Frascati Superiore ‘Terre Laviche’, Casale Mattia 2006/7 courtesy of Abel & Cole. The Casale Mattia is situated in the volcanic hills south of Rome, in the epicentre of the Frascati production area. Frascati is a wine known throughout the world and is the standard-bearer of the [...]
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‘Dear pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling Your ring?’ Said the Piggy, ‘I will.’ So they took it away, and were married next day By the Turkey who lives on the hill. They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on [...]
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All this dreary wet weather recently has left me longing after sunnier climes, whilst I can’t just hop on a jet plane and head off into the sunset at a moments notice I can get creative in the kitchen and produce food that induces memories of holidays gone by and gives the illusion of warmth [...]
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Abel & Cole have very kindly sent me a box of alcoholic beverages to review. Now it will take me a wee while to work my way through all of them, I know, it’s a tough job but somebody has to do it I know many of you have read about Abel & Cole on [...]
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When I was a young girl if ever I was feeling poorly hot Ribena was the order of the day, it never failed to make me feel better. Now I’m sure the high vitamin C content helped a little but for the most part I dare say it was just that that cup of hot [...]
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