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...Pretty much anything fried, and wine — chips and wine, I could die happy just with those. Do you see yourself as an artist?Absolutely not. I’m very content to be a baker....
...I probably indulge in a glass of wine or a pint of beer more often than I should. Do you see yourself as an artist?No. I see myself as a cook. The artist is expressing something of themselves....
...I recently spent two weeks in Sicily, drinking wine and eating pasta. I smoke, I don’t sleep well. Really, I am a mess. Tell me about an animal you have loved....
...But at some point, inevitably, I will fall into a vat of red wine and cheese for a few weeks and do nothing. Then I’ll get my act together again. I vacillate....
...Clothes and, on occasion, fine wine. As I drink less, I’m drinking better. In what place are you happiest? The great outdoors. What ambitions do you have?...
...Meanwhile the natural-wine-bar sommelier Lauren Friel, who is behind Rebel Rebel in Bow Market, Somerville, has opened Dear Annie, a pescatarian restaurant near Porter Square with the team behind Field &...
...I need nothing else except food and wine. What ambitions do you still have? To always write better, to keep the wine cellar stocked with Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon and to avoid prison....
...Decent wine. In what place are you happiest? In the house where I have lived since June 7 1957. What ambitions do you still have? To continue working well. What drives you on?...
...Its distinctive wine “cathedral” building sits atop a hill that overlooks picturesque Lake Hennessey....
...How much I’d have liked to share a glass of wine and talk endlessly with him! Everything about the writing process is in his letters. How physically fit are you?...
...In the UK, dinner, with wine flowing and good conversation. Which technique did you struggle to perfect? Baking bread is still an area where I could improve. Which flavour always pleases you?...
...Over the past year, little things have made a big difference, like getting nice cheese and wine delivered. That kept me going. In what place are you happiest?On holiday. We have a caravan....
...Cooking in my kitchen for my family and friends with a glass of wine and good music. Or tackling a canvas into submission in my studio into the night. What ambitions do you still have?...
...Back on board, we would cook magnificent joints from The Butchery and The Ginger Pig, feast on Etivaz and Tomme Fleurette de Rougemont from Käseswiss, imbibe natural wines from Ancestrel and Dynamic Vines...
...Not only does a chef prepare a three-course meal in your kitchen, there’s also the option of wine pairings, additional waiting staff and table decoration....
...Each year I have a lot of fun in March and April going through new en primeur wines. In what place are you happiest?...
...The second — my wines, the best produced outside France. If your 20-year-old self could see you now, what would he think? “Frankly speaking, I do not have any right to complain....
...A fried egg — of the most wonderfully sticky consistency and lacey at the edges from the fryer — draped itself fetchingly on top of a slice of fried bread — reminding me, in some bizarre, pork-fuelled flashback...
...It is a social time, it’s about being at the table with children and a glass of wine, discussing the day, laughing. In the morning, we’re in a rush. Which technique did you struggle to perfect?...
...I don’t come from a wine region or a wine family....
...Face-off on the staircase is Bacon’s “Study for Portrait IX”, his caged violent lover Peter Lacey on emerald green ground, versus Modigliani’s brilliant yellow arabesque “La Belle Espagnole”....
...Gao phones his driver to ask him to pick up some, while pouring the first round into wine glasses....
...Red wine, [at least that’s what] my wife Penny tells me. I don’t take stuff too seriously — I’ll have a laugh about anything. What ambitions do you still have?...
...I’m very passionate about wine — discovering wine and the people and regions behind those wines. It’s something cultural for me. In what place are you happiest?...
...Good wine, expensive hotel suites, first-class travel on long haul. In what place are you happiest? My home in Essex — it is my sanctuary. More specifically, in my bedroom....
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