Category: Food and drink
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Will mead supersede?
By Guy Venables If gin was last year’s drink, a new trend seems to be mead. I know. Mead?! My mother was a beekeeper and used to make her own mead out of just honey… […]
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Thermal Cooking
It is always a testament to design to see things meant for your boat ending up in your house. This is an astonishingly efficient, fuel-saving ‘eco-friendly thermal cooker’ with an internal pot that, once brought… […]
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Eating seaweed… we’re serious
Food and Foraging by Guy Venables Laver After spending 40 years of my life surfing I’ve discovered, through necessity, many ways to forage at the seashore. We were always broke but never hungry. The most… […]
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Chilgrove Gin: The grape, not the grain
BY GUY VENABLES Not far from where I live the first English gin to use alcohol distilled from grapes, rather than grain, is to be born. And Chilgrove is its… […]
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Over the Yardarm: More About Gin.
By Guy Venables We’ve all been there, late night, sitting on the internet trying to gauge how much to bid on a brand new foreign spouse. The trouble is you simply can’t tell how… […]
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Over the Yardarm: Making a toast
By Guy Venables I’ve often thought that when it comes to drinking toasts there’s invariably something sentimental about them. “Well, obviously,” I hear you say, as they’re usually conceived with an arm around a best… […]
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Over the Yardarm – Cider Brandy from Britain
Is anything better than Calvados? asks Guy Venables. Yes, and it comes from Somerset Whenever I hear that someone’s going to France I ask them two questions. The first is “Can you bring me back… […]
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Cooking under Pressure
By Guy Venables Most people, when they think of pressure cookers wince and tell stories of extra portholes blown through various parts of boats. These were the old aluminium ones that did indeed creak and… […]