November 22, 2024
Chicago 12, Melborne City, USA
Food & Drink

Make Mine a Manhattan

Todays post is devoted to my favourite cocktail. The Manhattan. The Manhattan appears to have originated in the mid to late 1800’s, like most cocktails there are largely apocryphal stories about it’s origins. There are references to many similar cocktails about this time, but it is claimed that it was popularised at a banquet held

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Cocktails Food & Drink

How to Make Hot Mars Bar Vodka

IT’S SNOWING! Well, it was snowing at the weekend and the newspapers are gleefully reporting weeks of travel chaos and arctic temperatures. When it snows there’s really nothing for it but to hunker down under a blanket with some nice warming booze. I mentioned Hot Mars Bar Vodka over the weekend on Facebook and Twitter

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Food & Drink

An Excuse to Throw a Tea Party for Marie Curie

Marie Curie Cancer Care have very helpfully provided you with an excuse to throw a vintage tea party. Isn’t that nice of them? From this Sunday the 12th June, through till 12th July you can register to hold a tea party on the Blooming Great Tea Party website and it’ll all be in aid of

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Food & Drink

Any Excuse – Vintage Sweets

Yum, yum, yum…. For my birthday I got a packet of my favourite sweets in the world. I don’t have a big sweet tooth, but these are delicious, so today I’m going to tell you all about them, as if you haven’t tried them you really should. Here’s the last one, seconds before I ate

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Food & Drink Recipes

Retro Chick Cooks: Cranberry & Mulled Wine Stew

I promised I was going to try and do some recipe and food posts this year, and here we are, my first try! I’m starting off with a recipe that’s actually my very own. I love stews, chillis and casseroles in winter, they’re comforting, warming, and actually pretty healthy being stuffed with as many vegetables

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Food & Drink

Have a Happy Halloween!

To ease you into the weekend here’s short video I took of the String Quartet at the Norwich Beer Festival yesterday. I only had my iPhone, so it’s not the most amazing, but keep your eyes peeled for a man balancing a balloon on his nose at about a minute in. It also ends with

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Food & Drink Vintage

The Changing Face of the Babycham Deer

I love Babycham glasses and that iconic Babycham Deer. I always buy Babycham glasses whenever I see them. I started picking them up about a year ago and I now have 6, from a variety of decades. I found it quite hard to find pictures of the changing face of the Babycham deer all in

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Food & Drink Travel & Events

Hidden Gems – Bobby Jo's 50s Diner in Southend

I really love it when you unexpectedly find fantastic places, but last time I posted about one of my hidden gems it proved unexpectedly controversial and resulted in me having to close the comments on the post. This time round I discovered Bobby Jo’s 50s Diner on a trip to Southend on Sea. Hopefully it

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Food & Drink

Sponsor Spotlight: The Perfect Afternoon Tea

Afternoon tea. That’s a very British institution. Apparently introduced to England by the seventh Duchess of Bedford, in the year 1840 it involves Tea served in delicate china, cakes, maybe scones with cream and jam and tiny sandwiches arranged on stacked plates. It’s all very important to get right, or it’s just not afternoon tea.

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