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Zest & the Baron    In the Mood Hong Kong Island: I wound my way down Hennessey Road on an impossibly thin, old, ‘double-decker’ tram, the carriage made of ancient wood, worn down to the...

    Penfolds Day PNG 2024 The Stanley Hotel Port Moresby Penfolds is an iconic Australian winemaker founded in 1844 by Christopher Rawson Penfold, an English physician who emigrated to South Australia with his wife Mary Penfold. It is one...

  The Rangoon Tea House and Me   “Monsieur Thirsty Bedford” In my travels in Indochina, I had been given an identification paper describing me as Louis (sic) Norman, writer, commissioned by Jonathan Cape Limited of Thirty...

Champagne & Dim Sum Billecart Salmon et Zhan Liang On Saturday, the 9th of December 2023, the stars aligned, and harmony filled the universe when local wine company The Warehouse decided to host a...

Basque-ing in Glory The Basque Country, (Basque: Euskal Herria) is the home of the Basque people, it sits in the north of the Iberian Peninsula in the Western Pyrenees, straddling the border between Spain...

The River of Sapphire Cambodia’s celebrated master chef, Luu Meng is looking lean and relaxed as we meet for an early morning chat, I have not seen my good friend for a little while...

  The Art of Camembert   “Muftis and bishops should be like ripe camembert cheeses - a bit on the nose and not for the faint-hearted, but memorable!” Michael Leunig   It was over half a century ago, 1966...

The Cardinal’s Slipper Pantoufle du Cardinal   “Wine is the intellectual part of a meal while meat is the material.” Alexandre Dumas   Dumas The name Alexandre Dumas is writ large across French history through the late 18th and the 19th...