From the monthly archives:

January 2010

An unexpected marketing genius

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I’m not sure how many churches there are on New Providence, but I think in terms of sheer variety they surpass even the liquor stores, petrol stations and nail salons. In such a crowded marketplace, one genteel Bahamian lady of a certain age (all Sunday hats, proper pastel suits and sensible heels) has found a [...]

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Three deliciously controversial gelato flavours: toasted sesame and butterscotch; brown bread; beetroot stracciatella ice-creams

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Mr R&R would like it known upfront that he’s morally opposed to this post. It deeply offends his Italian sensibilities, history, culture, in fact everything that he stands for, and is an affront to the metric tonnes of ice-cream he’s consumed so far, and and insult to the hard-working families producing authentic gelati the length [...]

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Nigella’s chocolate cookies, beetroot ice-cream, beetroot brownies and kasutera cake

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I’ve always thought that brownies are a grown-up excuse to eat raw cake mixture – a cursory nod to the oven gives them baked-goods legitimacy, just as a whiff of the martini bottle is the grown-up excuse to down a large bucket of gin. This version with beetroot is, of course, just another such excuse [...]

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Homemade gnocchi with broccoli, and two new gadgets!

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The 8th January? Er, I’m not quite sure how that happened – it’s not as if I’ve spent the first days of the new decade with amnesia induced by wild-partying, hard-drinking or pavement-sleeping. No, my New Years Eve was spent at home, watching the NFL Network (Top 10 Greatest Receiving Tackle Fumblers Coached By Aliens, or [...]

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