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While most of the world gobbles down turkey like there’s no tomorrow (or indeed Boxing Day), some prefer not to eat turkey at all – given a choice of festive fowl, I’d never pick turkey. Never. It could sit plumply on the supermarket subs’ bench till kingdom come for all I care, forever in the [...]
The Bloody Mary: probably the best hangover cure known to man. Fact. Also, probably the single best drink you can craft from in-flight trolley ingredients (or, if you’re totally lazy, from Belvedere’s pre-macerated Bloody Mary vodka, right). Fact 2.0. Also, in the wrong hands, potentially the most repulsive, godawful hash of a cocktail on God’s [...]
For round two of our Sri Lankan flavour festival, Amangalla boutique hotel in Galle, Sri Lanka, shares recipes for a tasty beetroot curry and refreshing mint sambol, the perfect accompaniments to Wednesday’s seafood curry.
BEETROOT CURRY INGREDIENTS
1 tbs vegetable oil
1 onion, chopped
5 garlic cloves, cut into thin strips
2 tbs curry powder
1 tsp chilli powder
1 tsp turmeric [...]
On our last scouting trip in search of hotels in Sri Lanka, the Smith team soaked up the local flavours with a cooking class at Amangalla boutique hotel, set in a historic fort in the coastal town of Galle, three hours south of capital Colombo. Here we share a no-brainer seafood curry recipe…
Admittedly, it can be [...]
What do a Smash Hits sticker collection, an obsession with cutlery culture and a knack for knowing how to Give Great Food have in common? Smith hotel-reviewing chef Allegra McEvedy’s tasty new book, Bought Borrowed & Stolen, that’s what.*
York & Albany reviewer Allegra – aka the First Lady of fast food, thanks to having co-founded [...]
Contemporary country house hotel Cowley Manor has more than a few aces up its heather-hued tweed sleeves. Aside from a gorgeous location (near Cheltenham, in the Cotswolds), green and lovely grounds (all 55 acres of them), a pampering spa (C-Side, which uses its own Green & Spring product line) and cool colourful interiors, it also [...]
