A long standing love affair with tea A few years ago I discovered with a fair amount of surprise that for years I had been pronouncing the name of my favourite tea brand wrongly. Indeed, insteading ‘tuinings’, Twinings is pronounced ‘tuainings’. The fact I had been so wrong about it did not deter me from continuing to be a fan of their products, particularly the classic Earl Grey and their patent, beautiful Lady Gray which I am gutted they now…
Pasta mon amour I love pasta, no secret. This blog is entitled to it, and I am from Napoli, where pasta is a staple of pretty much most meals (right, maybe not breakfast). I usually prefer to cook or even make my own pasta, and I feel that is a bit of a waste for me to order pasta in a restaurant because it is such an easy task for me to do at home. There’s so much more to…
Seggiano is the name of the small hilltop village on Monte Amiata in southern Tuscany, where Peri Eagleton and David Harrison have farmed organic olives since 1985. Twenty years ago they started selling their local Olivastra Seggianese extra virgin olive oil and a selection of wonderful artisan foods from small family food producers. Their brand is SEGGIANO, named in honour of the village where the story started. Their product range is pretty extensive with some very good options from savoury…
Chocolate… who can resist? Well I guess I can’t and I am sure there are people somewhere in the world who do not like chocolate… but for me, give me dark chocolate and I am happy. I seldom eat milk chocolate in fact, and never have been a fan; I do like white chocolate but in truth I do not actually consider it chocolate as such and it’s way too sweet and full of calories. So dark, proper, authentic and…
Great dairy, no bull… Since my fitness freak streak which started 3 years ago, I am now a regular consumer of yogurts. Usually and mainly for breakfast, is the low fat / zero fat variety, however, in a effort to up the protein and the good fats, I do treat myself to full fat yogurt more often than not. And if I ‘have to have’ calories, then my pots of choice are the scrumptious, delicious ones from the Collective. They…