The big question before moving last Fall, was whether to drink all the booze in the Scotch Bucket or pack it and ship it.
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PLANTAIN WRAPS UP THE COMPETITION
The always welcoming island of Saint-Martin, in the French West Indies, is one of my favourite winter destinations, where the recent Culinary Festival invited chefs around the island to show off their stuff and create some new and unique offerings featuring plantain.
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Our wine correspondent Jim Walker is well known for combining fine dining with his wining. “They go together like a horse and carriage, love and marriage and flotsam and jetsam,” Jim explains. Below we see what he means as he and wife Hélène explore the restaurant scene on a recent trip to Nice, France.
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Christmas cards keep arriving, whether delayed by post office inertia, actual mail strikes or our move to a historic lake-side town, it’s hard to say, but they do belatedly remind us of friends in distant places.
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Gentlemans Portion 