Month: August 2020

SALUTE TO THE CARNEGIE DELI

CHEESECAKE 2

Creamy New York style cheesecake with strawberry topping (Photo © Nigel Napier-Andrews)

There’s nothing more sinfully delicious than a New York style cheesecake from the Carnegie Deli, with its most popular topping being a strawberry sauce. And since both the original Carnegie Deli and indeed the whole of America is closed, I’ll have to make it at home.

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THE FARAUD SISTERS AND THEIR GORGEOUS GIGONDAS

The town of Gigondas

More and more women are successfully taking control of wineries around the world. Such is the case at Domaine du Cayron. The difference, as our wine scribe Jim Walker discovered, is that this stellar Gigondas producer of the Southern Rhône is operated by three sisters – Delphine, Cendrine and Roseline Faraud.
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