It can settle a stomach after a demanding dinner and temptingly ‘smooth out’ a coffee. In the north of Italy grappa shines out like a star among the rest of the spirits. This means the local vineyards can offer...
There is beauty in simplicity. And whiskey is no exception. It is made in Scotland from pure water, barley and active yeast. The royalty of whiskies are the single malts, whiskies that come from one malt and from one...
Small and unsightly, white and black warty lumps lie under the roots of young oaks, hazels and hornbeams and they are intensely fragrant. Above the roots pigs, goats and dogs dig wildly and gleefully when they catch their scent....
While a thousand years ago people considered whales, porpoises, beavers and black geese to be seafood, nowadays only animals under the sea are put in this category. That means fish, gastropods, bivalve molluscs, cephalopods, crustaceans, jellyfish and echinoderms. We...
