If you live in or plan to visit Cambridge UK, you may be interested in reading my review of Six Skyline Bar and Restaurant, published in olive magazine. Its views from the sixth floor of the Varsity Hotel are some of the best in the city. … [Read more...]
A Midsummer Night’s Eve potion
There is something so magical about Midsummer Night’s Eve that it calls for a potion -- something drawn from Shakespeare's green world to induce dreams of love and pagan revelry, safely resolved with all the right embraces after a dalliance with … [Read more...]
Bullet ice cream and other strawberry tales
The most enchanting strawberries I have ever tasted were Norwegian berries, bought from the grower in a gravel-strewn lay-by on a winding road along Sognefjord on Norway’s west coast. They were pale pink and I was suspicious of their anaemic pallor, … [Read more...]