Young riesling, if it's well balanced, is delicious but a few
years bottle age can lift it to a new level. Of all the white
varieties, it really repays the effort of cellaring.
Kushari is an
Egyptian vegetarian dish made of a rice and lentil base and
covered with a spicy tomato sauce. It is commonly found as a
street-stall food, where it is a cheap but nutritious meal or
snack.
This is a dish in which only a few ingredients put together
bring one another alive. The dish is inspired by my life in
Greece and also by chef Simon Hopkinson. Simplicity at its
best.
It's good to see chardonnay is coming back into fashion. I
love a good chardonnay for its mouth-filling citrus or
stonefruit flavours, subtle nutty, buttery or toasty oak, and
its crisp dry finish.
