Sometimes I really feel like this
5 January 2010
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Category: David’s diatribes
Is this really the government’s domain to meddle in?
5 January 2010
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I’m just reading an article on the Daily Telegraph about the new food strategy that is being cooked up by the loony, control-freak government in Blighty. It is pissing …
The year at Elitist Review
2 January 2010
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Normally at this time of year I’d be bragging about how vaguely popular Elitist Review is and indulge in some stat-porn. However, I changed hosting providers in March and …
The curse of New Year’s Eve
31 December 2009
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Last New Year we opened three bottles of Champagne, and they were all buggered. It seems a similar thing is happening a year later. OK, the Dancer wine was …
Yesterday’s wines
28 December 2009
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Yesterday I popped some rather good wines for a lunch party. Bille Cuvee N-F 1996, Donnhof Schlossbockelheimer Kupfergrube Spatlese 2002, Meusault Charmes 2000 from Lafon, Rene Engel Echezeaux 1999, …
Wine with turkey
21 December 2009
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I got an email asking what wine to have with turkey. Bloody hell. I would have the wine that is being served by friends who are cooking goose, duck, …
Hawksmoor (London’s best meat restaurant) again
23 November 2009
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We are off to Hawksmoor (reviews here and here, and some pictures here and here) for the umpty-third time this year. Our first trip was back in February when …
Vacherin Mont d’Or
28 October 2009
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I love Vacherin Mont d’Or. It is one of the great treats of the year to see the first Vacherin Mont d’Or of the season on sale. I always …
I haven’t been drinking
21 October 2009
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But I found this to be very funny:
RIP whatinterests and the Elitist Review photoblog emerges from its ashes
21 October 2009
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My old photoblog at whatinterests.davidstrange.net was all very nice, but sub-optimal in many ways. Also, the webcam software for my phone stopped working after a ROM upgrade… Rising up …