Simplifood: Amazing food, simply prepared offers exactly what the title promises, with about 250 recipes diligently researched and tested over many years of cooking by the author and presented in his easy-to-follow style that both beginners and experienced cooks will find very straight forward. Most recipes are illustrated with photos by the author.
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Our wine correspondent Jim Walker and his wife Hélène Buisson recently visited Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in southern France to bid a fond adieu to their vinous mentor and a couple of their vintners. You see, they had decided to wind down their participation in the wild, wacky and wonderful world of wine and they wanted to say goodbye to those who had made it all possible.
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Do writers ever shed tears? Of course: when they’re writing, when they’re not writing and when they’re stuck. Which makes this Irish whiskey a dreamer’s dram.
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Having spent probably half my working life travelling, I have eaten in enough hotel dining rooms to last another lifetime. But now that I have settled in the bucolic country town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, I may have to change my habits.
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Gentlemans Portion 