Home Lifestyle Food and Drink 2008 05 16

Food and Drink for 16 May 2008

Showing 1-5 of 5 articles .

Articles...

Endangered foods are worth saving

May 16 2008

It’s not just our wildlife that is endangered, so are many artisan foods. Jane Hall reports on a unique 10 Things to Eat! Before They Die dinner which aims to show why traditional foods are worth saving....

Online and off message

May 16 2008

IT’S a good thing they’ve finally painted the Forth Bridge with a special paint which means that now, for the first time since it was built, they don’t have to start all over again immediately they finish....

Utong Thai Restaurant, Newcastle

May 16 2008

DID you know that lots of people from the Far East are alcohol intolerant? For someone running a licensed restaurant this is like being a landscape gardener with hay fever or a pilot with vertigo....

Message in a bottle on Fairtrade offerings

May 16 2008

JUST like handbags and sunglasses, wine has its designer labels. Malcolm Gluck tells the story of a wine importer from Singapore, who having splashed out £5,000 for a bottle of Chateau Petrus, made sure that it was prominently displayed on his table, but then proceeded to ‘enhance’ his glass with Pepsi. He admitted, Malcolm relates, to not liking the taste of red wine....

Tyne for a pint

May 16 2008

ALE plus arithmetic equals chaos. If our summing-up is as it should be we estimate that over the past two centuries some 400 breweries have hugged the River Tyne....

Showing 1 - 5 of 5