The Dabbler's drinks correspondent Henry Jeffreys talks to the philosopher and columnist Roger Scruton about all matters wine-related... For many years Roger Scruton wrote a column for the New Statesman. It was ostensibly about wine but in reality it smuggled subversive views about the family, religion and hunting into a left ... Read More...
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Food and drink
In which Henry uncovers a hoard of very old wine, and does some impromptu blending... About ten years ago a friend of mine inherited a country pile from a misanthropic great uncle. The place was a bit neglected so he planned to sell off some of the accumulated loot in order ... Read More...
Luke Honey writes about food, drink and the finer things in life over at his blog The Greasy Spoon. Today he gets stuck into a literary cocktail created in honour of a man who was fond of a tipple himself... As a long time fan of Graham Greene, I was amused ... Read More...
Frasier and Niles were always guzzling some presumably upmarket tipple in the famous sitcom. But what exactly were they drinking? Henry can reveal the shocking truth... The sherry marketing board should have made more of the Crane brothers’ love of sherry. In every episode of the long-running sitcom Frasier there they ... Read More...
In case you missed it last year, here's Jassy's Easter recipe... There were two high points to my Easter Sundays when I was a child. First, waking up to find that the Easter Bunny had indeed come a-hopping and left me a chocolate egg at the bottom of my bed. The ... Read More...
Luke Honey writes about food, drink and the finer things in life over at his blog The Greasy Spoon. Today we find our intrepid reporter in deepest Kent in search of the perfect seafood restaurant... We've just discovered a little gem of a fish restaurant; a tiny place in Herne Bay. ... Read More...
In which Luke Honey manages to blag some eye-watering coffee - eye-watering, that is, both in its costliness and its method of production... One of the amusing little perks of the food blogger's existence are the numerous unsolicited emails you get from pushy PR companies desperate to flog you their wares. ... Read More...
New Dabbler addition Luke Honey writes about food, drink and the finer things in life over at his blog The Greasy Spoon.Today we take a trip to the revamped Wheeler's, one of London's most established fish restaurants, where Luke is wondering about the decorum of the decor... I had been looking ... Read More...
Henry combines the typical Dabbler's two main passions: reading and drinking... One simply cannot have too many books about booze. I’ll even read those books about supermarket wine with titles like Easyquaff and Fruity! that were all the rage a few years ago. In particular I like ones from secondhand bookshops ... Read More...
Today we're pleased to welcome Luke Honey to the Dabbler. You can find Luke writing about food, drink and the finer things in life over at his blog The Greasy Spoon. We start by revisiting a west london institution redolent of the swinging sixties... Hands up who remembers The Gasworks? Twenty ... Read More...
