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What to Do With Hotel Soap The following letters are taken from an actual incident between a London hotel and one of its guests. The Hotel ended up submitting the letters to the London Sunday Times! Dear Maid, Please do not leave any more of those little bars of soap in my bathroom since I have brought my own bath-sized Dial. Please remove the six unopened little bars from the shelf under the medicine chest and another three in the shower soap dish. They are ... Read More

Perhaps because I studied classical guitar I have always held an affinity with Spain and in particular that part called Andalusia which is the heart of Flamenco and the birthplace of Andres Segovia. We visited an area where the Tejeda and Almijara mountains tumble down to the Mediterranean, a land where in spring, the lilac blue Jacaranda the vermillion bougainvillea and the pink carpet of cornflowers enhance the olive green and sky blue backdrop with little pools of brilliant colour. Drive inland ... Read More

100 g White chocolate broken into small pieces 150 g Polenta 560 ml Milk grated zest of half Lemon and half Orange half teaspoon grated nutmeg 4 medium eggs 100 ml double cream 5Tblsp caster sugar ¼ teaspoon salt Filling Two Tablespoons Raspberry Puree whipped with 200ml Double Cream Pour the milk into a thick bottomed saucepan add the Polenta, cook over medium heat stirring constantly for about twenty minutes, until the Polenta is very thick. Leave aside off the heat to allow the mixture to loose heat. Then while the mixture is still slightly ... Read More

Ultracomida this fantastic little delicatessen and a tapas bar, was discovered for us, by I think Anthony, my Wife's Brother, some time last year. Ever since then when we travel down to the Welsh coast to spend the odd day or two in the family caravan near Abereron we always try to time our trip so that we can be in Aberystwyth in time for lunch. The name Ultracomida is Spanish in origin, ultramarina meaning delicatessen and comida meaning food. Spanish and ... Read More

When I was a comis chef to many years ago now to think about, it was always our duty to make sure everything was cleaned after service, although in the kitchen, in which I worked we had kitchen porters, there was still a large amount of cleaning involved with the job. I fondly imagined that by the time I had reached the heady heights of head chef or even executive, these boring but very necessary tasks would fall to those lower in ... Read More

Perhaps Gorgon Ramsey is being a little bit hypocritical when he calls for restaurants to be forced to serve home-grown, locally-sourced produce, and fined if out of season ingredients appear on their menus. After all he has built a reputation running restaurants in the middle of London where there is a distinct scarcity of local producers, and at the moment according to one celebrity chef his own restaurants are serving 15 out of season products. The first question must be asked is ... Read More

My new camera arrived this afternoon and although the weather had been a bit overcast for most of the day almost as if by design the sun came out just as I had opened the box, these are a few of the photos of the garden I took just to see how the camera worked, basically point and shoot at this stage I will take it with me on holiday next week with the instruction book and see if I ... Read More

In the catering industry, as you know, we sometimes get weeks when Murphy’s law comes very much to the fore, if anything can go wrong, it will go wrong, and usually at the most inconvenient times. This has been just such a week, our problems ... Read More

It was only after we had begun to demolish the old garage that Isabel remembered the Swallows which always nested in the rafters. What are they going to do this year? just imagine how disappointed they are going to be after flying all those thousands ... Read More

Street cooks are magicians: With little more than a cart and a griddle, mortar, or deep-fryer, they conjure up not just a delicious snack or meal but the very essence of a place.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "World’s Best Street Food", url: "http://waterdine.co.uk/Blog/2008/05/worlds-best-street-food/" }); Read More