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How to Serve your Caviar

Tartines de Caviar à la Crème Aigre

How to Serve Your Caviar Ideally, we recommend that your caviar should be served chilled. Once removed from the fridge the caviar may be transferred to Mother of Pearl dishes or consumed directly from the container. Placing your dish or container on crushed ice not only looks more appealing it will help to prolong the […]

Roe to Perdition – Andy Hayler’s Restaurant Guide

Andy Hayler’s Caviar Tasting

I wanted to learn more about caviar and was lucky enough to spend a couple of hours with Laura King, founder of Kings Caviar, which is the largest UK supplier. They supply restaurants including The Fat Duck and The Ritz and stores such as Harrods and Fortnum & Masons. We did a comparative tasting of […]

Fortnum & Mason Hamperlings

Fortnum & Mason presents The Oscietra Caviar Hamperling. This is the perfect gourmet meal to be enjoyed in transit and I spotted this little gem on a recent trip at Heathrow Airport. Each Oscietra Caviar Hamperling includes our connoisseur caviar – Golden Oscietra Caviar complete with miniature blinis, crème fraiche, shredded eggs and a selection […]

Amedei Toscano Black

Amedei Toscano Black: A twenty-year long search for perfection for an extraordinary dark chocolate experience Amedei celebrates the twentieth anniversary of its iconic range with a limited edition of Toscano Black 70 and the brand new Toscano Black 90 Amedei pays tribute to twenty years of the Toscano Blackline, its first step in the long journey undertaken in the world of top-quality chocolate, […]

Amedei High Cocoa & Prendime range

The bar that got me was this rather tasty three layer gianduja bar. If you don’t know, gianduja is a blend of hazelnut paste and chocolate. It is sometimes the basis of chocolate & nut spreads and sometimes the filling for bonbons, but it can also be made firm enough to produce a bar on […]

Al Fresco Fine Dining Fit for a King

Al Fresco Fine Dining Fit For A King With the continuing rise in the popularity of glamping, it’s only right that the traditional summer picnic should match up to its elegance. With a little preparation and some of the finest ingredients, your outdoor meals need no longer consist of curling sandwiches and stale crisps. For […]

An Explanation of Chocolate by Sara Jayne Stanes

Amedei Tuscany - An Italian Excellence

Sara Jayne Stanes …it’s the chocolate’s fault! It wants us to eat it…! CHOCOLATE IS UNIQUE. It is the only substance that melts in the mouth at body temperature, subtly exploding into an intoxicating rainbow of flavours. This singularly hedonistic and deeply satisfying experience has earned chocolate a role in everything from seduction to the […]