I often find tea to be a fairly uninspiring subject and even though I drink almost as much tea as I do coffee, I drink the coffee because I love it, I suppose I drink the tea because I need it or because it’s quick and easy.
The general public however drink a lot of tea [...]
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Not a new highstreet chain store or a Prince song but an extremely sexy espresso machine with more gadgets than an Apple branded Swiss army knife.
Yes that’s right, it tells you the ambient humidity! - No, I don’t know why…
EDIT: This just in from Alberto Dal Cin at CMA
When you have humidity and it’s raining [...]
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Here ya go you gannets! - Some video to get your teeth into.
Slightly stripped down version because I had to get it under 10 minutes to fit on YouTube but you get the idea…
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Jim over at www.jimseven.com has discovered a very cool website with diagrams that illustrate relationships between many common flavours used in cookery and mixology. I think it could be very handy when matching flavours for drinks.
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This post wont be anywhere near as long as i’d like it to be due to a lack missing out on the majority of the presentations of the day by chatting too much, but anyway - I turned up on the day at about 10.30am after a nightmare trying to find the frickin place!
Due to [...]
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Whilst in Edinburgh we dropped in to The Cocktail Emporium (try the link, website was down earlier) on Broughton Street. It’s a good little shop with a large range of glassware, spirits and liqueurs and they were also doing gin tasting on the range of Seagram’s gins.
The real gem however came in the form of [...]
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