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Category Archives: Beer and Food
Soupe au Pistou
One year in the apartment we found a pair of German knickers. Another time there was a French wedding photo album left behind in a wardrobe; not the actual proper album, but one of those printed books of the day, which … Continue reading
Posted in Beer and Food, Travel
Tagged basil, cookery, Cote d'Azur, homemade, mojitos, Provence, soup
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Saturday Boy
At sixteen I quit the paper round. A tip-off from one of my sisters, a Saturday Girl at the butcher’s in the Arndale, told me there was a job going at their factory in Garforth.1 Whilst it wasn’t a huge … Continue reading
Posted in Beer and Food, Childhood, Family History, Work
Tagged Butchers, Crossgates, Garforth, Headingley, Leeds, Pork Pies, Skol, The Smiths, Trophy Bitter
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What Are You Having For Tea?
Last week I met up for beers with some friends from the brewery I used to work for – a get-together to mark a former team-mate’s leaving the business. Well, my excellent good friends MP and DP were there, doing … Continue reading
Posted in Beer and Food, Work
Tagged creativity, dinner, insights, meetings, office, tea
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The Sacrificial Nose Hair of Romantic Destiny
Unwanted hair has been on my mind a lot of late. Thinking on it this morning as I left the house, I was reminded of an experience – and important lesson – that befell me as a younger man. I’d … Continue reading
Magic Rabbits and a Bottle of Beer
In January 1990, I received a neatly-typed, logo-headed reply from the press and publicity office at Brookside Productions Ltd. Brookside, youth, was a Channel 4 TV soap opera, running from 1982 to 2003, set – politically, comically, dramatically and romantically … Continue reading
Posted in Beer and Food, TV
Tagged Brookside, Carling, Coronation Street, Eastenders, Magic Rabbits, Phil Redmond, TV props
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Chilli Sauce Everything
Beer and hot chilli sauces share similar semiotic trajectories, which see them both, as they get stronger, more challenging, or more flavourfully esoteric, converge in a peak of silliness. Generally speaking. And it was a thumping opener. Google any hot … Continue reading
Posted in Beer and Food
Tagged Beer, Chillies, Endorphins, Hot Food, Naga, Nicholson Baker, Pump Clips, Real Ale, Scotch Bonnet, Scoville, Semiotics, The Simpsons
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