Learn to cook like a pro, then get massaged until you’re done. Turn. Serve. Everything is farmed, cultivated and produced within a square mile, straight from the farm to your fork, being the Daylesford motto. When making a Beef Bourguignon, boiling the red wine intensifies the desirable flavours and removes the alcohol. Did you know…
Rum has been called some nasty things in the past. Some believe it originates from the Devonshire description for a great tumult: rumbullion. However, even this is tame compared to some of rums other names: red-eye, Devils death, rumscullion, Kill-Devil and Nelsons Blood. The latter stemmed from the widespread belief that Nelsons body was brought…
One of our favourite champagne companies, Laurent-Perrier have teamed up with Coutts & Co and the Devonshire Arms Country House Hotel and Spa to offer a Pink Afternoon Tea, in aid of Breast Cancer Haven Charity. It runs throughout July and August. The Hotel and Spa, at Bolton Abbey, will be offering a Pink Afternoon…
She taught me the joy of getting your hands dirty and earning that bucket of fried chicken. Sure, then I struck oil, paid people to get their hands dirty while I had two extra buckets of fried chicken, but I didn’t forget the lesson. Mostly because I pay someone to remember it for me, but…
The von Essen hotel chain has always had something of the Bond villains evil empire about it to me. There’s Cliveden, the undeniably grand but slightly louche front that 007 first encounters. But once inside, he’d pick up some information that led him onto all the other stuff: the helipad in London- for quick getaways,…
If you just happen to be a premiership footballer who has become disgruntled with their current clubs lack of ambition by failing to expend vast sums of money on new talent, then you may want to consider the latest offering from those lovely people at the May Fair Hotel. Showing no such lack of ambition,…
The photos are deceptive, not giving perspective to this opulent monolith that is Grade II listed mansion, Buckland House. The House goes back to the time of William the Conqueror and was given to one of his returning soldiers, Richard de Filleigh. The small village of Buckland Filleigh is so named. When we turn into…
Every August, throughout my childhood, I used to go blackberry picking with my grandparents and our tribe of siblings. We would descend on the Cambridgeshire hedgerows in force, filling our baskets and punnets. The ripe brambles would be taken back to the homestead and transformed into epicurean delights – crumbles, jams and rich fruity wines.…
If you’re a connoisseur of wine – or just simply a wino – chances are you’ve bored someone silly at a party with this factoid. The Tempranillo grape is a derivative of the Spanish word ‘temprano’ – meaning ‘early’. It’s a cheeky young thing, an early riser – coming to fruition a few weeks before the…
As the TGV pulled up to Reims, Champagne, it didn’t look good. The damp and dreary weather reflected my mood, as for me a 5am alarm usually signifies the end of a long bar shift and the promise of a post-work cold one, as opposed to a day trip to France. Reims, located eighty miles…