Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Canton Geneva presented its new wines to the world Tuesday 4 May and one of the guests was a knowledgeable fan: Chris McSorley, who heads the Geneva Servette Hockey Club, which just lost the Swiss hockey title in a tight best-of-seven battle with Bern. McSorley, who also owns a restaurant, loves […]
Wine pick: Petite Arvine from Valais
Valais has a wonderful collection of wines, far richer in diversity than most wine-growing regions in the world. One of the real jewels among them is Petite Arvine, a wine which has a surprisingly salty finish. A friend who was translating a wine text recently asked me, “That can’t be right, can it? it’s not […]
An asparagus tip: preserving tender stalks
By Ellen Wallace Most of us don’t have the luxury of going out into the garden, picking the asparagus, then cooking it within minutes, which gives a heavenly vegetable. The best alternative, and this is the season for it, is to go to the farmer’s door early in the morning to buy freshly picked stalks, […]
World’s oldest bottled single malt whisky gets corked
It’s $10,000 a bottle if you’re lucky enough to put your hands on one of the 54 bottles of Gordon & MacPhail’s recently released Mortlach 70-year-old whisky, the oldest bottled single malt whisky in the world, the company says. These are the standard 700ml bottles, so if this is out of your price range, don’t […]
Nature’s wild gardens, spring’s best ones
GUEST post by Shirley Curran A hike in the Jura mountains It is very quiet up on the Colomby de Gex during the week but, today, we saw 13 chamois. It is difficult to know what they are eating on the barren cliff side but they are very busy. The green woodpeckers, jays and cuckoos […]