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Extraordinary seafood and the magic of a good pairing at The Rocket Store. Boscastle harbour is pictured above. The restaurant sits snuggly on the quayside, just along from the MWM...

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Nicholas Lander on the pleasures of eating well and inexpensively in Argentina

I fell in love with Argentinian food 25 years before visiting this fascinating country. This Damascene conversion took place early...

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Buy a Willi's Wine Bar poster for Windows of Hope

Willi's Wine Bar (13 rue des Petits Champs, Paris 75001, tel 01 42 61 05 09) has long been a...

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Mondavi acquires Ornellaia

As forecast on this site many moons ago (wine news – 11 September 2001), Robert Mondavi has acquired the remaining...

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(Some) consumers prefer natural cork

Well what do you know? An international survey of wine drinkers commissioned by the Portuguese Cork Association (APCOR), showed that...

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Australian consumers won over by screwcaps

One of the subjects most heatedly discussed on the British Circle of Wine Writers' internet forum is stoppers. A colleague...

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Comparing wine prices online – who's best

There's no doubt that one of the great boons of this revolution in information technology is www.jancisrob – sorry, not...

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A great new addition to Borough Market

Anita Le Roy, who founded Monmouth Coffee in Covent Garden and is married to Randolph Hodgson of Neal's Yard Dairy...

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New cookery shop, London W1

Divertimenti, the cookware specialists, have just closed their site in Wigmore Street and opened in far more impressive and spacious...

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Of spicy food and subtle wines

For anyone who has wanted to experiment with what can often be the stunning but unlikely combinations of spicy Asian...

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London's new Chinese cookery school

In a move intended to cement London's position as the city for cosmopolitan cooking, to create stronger ties with the...

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Australia – what happened last week

Here's Tesco Wineman Phil Reedman's latest. He's wasting those reporting talents on buying wine for a British supermarket. M&A Bonanza...

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Australian and New Zealand Riesling Tasting, January 2002

This tasting was organised by Boylen Publishing / Vinpac International and held at the Australian National Wine Centre on 22...

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Edmund Penning-Rowsell the host

Originally published in the Financial Times in December 2000. For a long-term subscriber to Marxism Today, Edmund Penning-Rowsell has always...

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Edmund Penning-Rowsell – a long life in brief notes

Britain's longest-serving wine journalist. Born 16 March 1913 Son of Edmund Penning-Rowsell and Marguerite Marie-Louise Egan Parents divorced, educated Marlborough...