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iON The Table with the Gastrodetective: ‘O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!’
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I was in Al-Shami, Jericho’s Lebanese restaurant, with my Scottish friend JoJo, who was paying me a surprise visit. What I had thought was a bin bag stirred in the darkest recesses of Allam Street and there he was, hirpling along in a kilt (more…)
Apr
1
Inspirational Oxford
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I may be wrong, but I feel like I see a small glint of light through all of this economic darkness - it’s quite possibly a start of a move against the chains. An economic David and Goliath, if you would. We’re braced for an economic storm ahead, and I don’t know about you, but, at the end of it, (more…)
Apr
1
Tea Amid the Natives
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‘Tea is one of the mainstays of civilisation in this country’ George Orwell.
There is nothing more soothing than a pot of freshly made tea - but it can be frustratingly difficult to find one. Order a tea in your average café, and you’ll probably end up fishing (more…)
Jan
1
Churchillian Food
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Miss Honey, our flying correspondent, was recently hospitalised in the acute chest ward of Oxford’s Churchill Hospital with a sudden attack of acute psittacosis, a respiratory condition to which all parrot are prone. The building was new, the medicine undoubtedly good, the staff unfailingly pleasant (more…)
Jan
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iON The Table with the Gastrodetective
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Oxford’s Liaison Chinese restaurant looks like a crumpled Tudor relic beneath the repulsive modern buildings piled above it near the Westgate Centre. Would everyone inside walk in a sloping way, one eye to the ground, I wondered? And in this squashed corner of Oxford lurks a most remarkable young woman whom (more…)
Jan
1
Four years ago, I had no idea about food miles, carbon footprints or ethical food mumbo-jumbo. Thankfully nor did anyone else, but what I was fully aware of was my acute dislike for chain restaurants.
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