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Sometimes it seems that the industry is drowning in vodka. Every week we see new brands being released, usually with some clever marketing twist, a rare crystal, hand crafted bottle that has probably had more thought thrown at it than the liquid it holds. It never fails to amaze me that the marketing bigwigs have [...]
Six months out of the bars and suddenly i’m a wimp. My feet are killing me after four days of presentations on the Spirit’s & Wine Stage at Gordon Ramsay’s Taste of Christmas, Excel. Long gone are the days when I could do a week of split shifts behind the bar and still have enough energy go out afterwards! I feel like the guy from the film ‘Misery’ who gets his ankles smashed up by that crazy woman.
I think that roasting coffee really well, must be one of the hardest things on earth to do properly. You tell yourself that as long as it’s brown it should taste good, knowing full well that in reality there are about a billion outcomes of this one roast and that in all liklihood, you’ll miss [...]
Following on from my radio stuff recently, I’ve compiled a guide for anyone who fancies staying in over the festive season, with a few tips for how to make some nice cocktails.
Wherever cocktails are involved, preparation is usually required. Don’t think of them as drinks, but little starters. You wouldn’t throw a dish together at [...]
Look slike i’m going to have to enter a different heat for the 2009 UKBC. The South West one falls directly on two days of team meetings at work so I wont even be able to spectate! I’m looking in to competing in the Cardiff heat instead, since it’s the next closest to me.
And no, [...]
I’m current curled up in my travelodge room in central London fighting off the makings of a cold as I prepare for a radio recording session this afternoon.
I’ll be heading over to the Smooth FM studios to do a feature on entertaining at home over Christmas. Fortunately this one isn’t live, I say this one, [...]