Brighton :

F&G Eats? Recipease

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About a year ago Jamie Oliver opened his shop-cum-cafe-cum-cookery-school, Recipease ,  in Brighton.  The shop in the front sells Jme products and ingredients, bakery goods, wines and takeaway meals that you can cook yourself at home.[...]

My Vacation (Part 1)

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Well I just got back from a great vacation. Thanks to the internet I was able to post a few things here and there as well as pre-post a whole bunch of things.  But I didn't simply forget about the whole candy world, no I can't seem to get away[...]

My Vacation (Part 1)

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Well I just got back from a great vacation. Thanks to the internet I was able to post a few things here and there as well as pre-post a whole bunch of things.  But I didn't simply forget about the whole candy world, no I can't seem to get away[...]

Something in the air?

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So, I have just finished my third week of sofa surfing, and it’s not going too badly. I’m getting used to living out of a suitcase and sleeping on unfamiliar beds. I’m even getting used to not having all my many, many pairs of[...]

Hove Champagne Festival

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Champagne is one of my favourite things. So you can imagine my delight that Hove is hosting a celebratory festival in which I can revel and practically bathe in my favourite drink. So, this is just a quick note to draw your attention to the[...]

eat, laugh and be married

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Weddings are the ultimate institution of uniting two people, and is a time of tremendous joy and emotion - the exchange of vows, the reels of beautiful photography and not to mention the hugely stressful hustle and bustle. Yet it is hard to find a[...]

Russian Pirate Coney Island

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Jake & Caroline took me to this amazing Russian pirate ship themed restaurant in Brighton Beach, right at the edge of what's left of Coney Island. Giant beers, smoked fish, fried potatoes with dill. Read the full report on Serious Eats[...]

Just a quickie: champagne tips

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Just a very quick note in follow-up to the Hove Champagne Festival which I fully intended to blog about, but have now run out of that elusive commodity: time. Anyway, I thought it worth passing on that we went to the Waitrose Direct tutored[...]

Monogram pumpkins and a seedy snack

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I love Brighton. Whilst in the rest of the country, Halloween means hiding in darkened rooms from pikey kids “trick or treating”, where the options are money or egging, in Brighton we get the Zombie Walk and White Night .[...]

Buttercream Bakery A Day In Cupcakes

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Yesterday was a fun day at the bakery so I've decided to post the whole days worth of cupcakes at once.   I mentioned last week that I was making samples for a local group of hotels, so I was making those cupcakes, we also[...]