Category Archives: Feasts & Fancies
FEASTS & FANCIES @ CHOCOLATE NOTES: Chocolat Cocktail à la Menthe
After a difficult week, the feeling of grey heaviness in my heart is immediately dispelled by the opening bars of George Gershwin’s overture to Oh, Kay! J. S. Bach reminds me that the world makes sense and Gershwin makes me … Continue reading
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FEASTS & FANCIES @ CHOCOLATE NOTES: A Yoghurt Dip for Storytellers
A group of us meet at Chocolate Notes* every New Moon to tell a story. When the New Moon happens to be on a Sunday (when the CD shop cum café is closed), we meet on the evening before or … Continue reading
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FEASTS & FANCIES @ CHOCOLATE NOTES: Cinnamon Cocoa
It’s always difficult to find a table on a Saturday evening, but this time Chocolate Notes is positively heaving, so much so that you can barely hear the aptly chosen New London Consort recording of Carmina Burana over the hubbub. … Continue reading
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FEASTS & FANCIES: Aubergine & Fava Bean Bake
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FEASTS & FANCIES: Of Chocolate and Chestnuts
My mother didn’t particularly care for food. She seldom expressed any joy towards it and made sure I was trained to show no more than polite enthusiasm when praising a dish. One of my early childhood memories is of being … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, chestnuts, Cooking, dark chocolate, humour, katia gregor, scribe doll, writing
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FEASTS & FANCIES: Reblochon & Asparagus Sandwich
“Bad table manners, my dear Gigi, have broken up more households than infidelity,” says the ageing Belle Époque courtesan to the niece she is training in the MGM musical based on Colette’s novella. When I was six years old, I … Continue reading
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FEASTS & FANCIES: Borsch for Easter
Easter brings back memories of my Armenian grandmother perhaps more than the other Christian Festivals. The large bowl with the dough for the kulich resting on a warm hot water bottle on her bed, wrapped in her grey woollen shawl, … Continue reading
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FEASTS & FANCIES: Sometimes, you just need a subterfuge…
It was always the same pattern. “Dearest, what vegetables would you like?” “I don’t know.” “We need some greens… they’re good for us.” “Okay.” “You never have any greens.” “Yes, I do.” “No, you don’t.” “I do, sometimes!” This … Continue reading
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Tagged Cooking, curly kale, humour, katherine gregor, katia gregor, pea pasta, scribe doll, writing
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FEASTS & FANCIES: Spaghetti with Artichokes – my favourite comfort food.
There is something about pasta that warms the cockles of my heart. I reach out for pasta the way some people reach out for chocolate or a glass of wine. I eat pasta when I’m feeling sad or vulnerable, when … Continue reading
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FEASTS & FANCIES @ CHOCOLATE NOTES: Chocolat à l’Orange
It sounds unmistakeably early Franco-Flemish, but as I am nearer the ignorance end of the musical knowledge gamut, I hesitate to hazard a guess that might land me not only in the wrong country, but the wrong century all together. … Continue reading
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Tagged early music, guillaume dufay, hot chocolate, huelgas ensemble, katherine gregor, katia gregor, scribe doll, writing
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Scribe Doll 