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The 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival is just around the corner and we were fortunate to catch a preview of the ‘World’s Greatest Imaginary Jazz Bar’ at Kansas Smitty's in Broadway Market, just before its month long residency up north throughout August. London’s favourite jazz…
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Recently I was whisked away from the grey skies of London, to subtropical Cuba, tasked with finding out all about Cuban rum at the hands of its masters, Havana Club rum. One of the highlights of the trip was a visit to…
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Summer's here and it's time to dust off those shorts, drag the BBQ out of the shed and get involved in some serious summertime slurpage. For me, nothing goes better with sunshine than a delicious rum cocktail and I learnt how to…
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Havana has been a mecca for all cocktail lovers, not just Ernest Hemingway, since the start of the 20th century, when Prohibition drove tens of thousands of American bartenders to Cuba, – after all it’s only 90 miles below Florida! Difford’s Guide tells us…
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It’s 2016; year of the Monkey, year of the Olympics, the US Presidential Election (the UK's too), the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and, excitingly for those of the bon vivant persuasion, year of the 11th Havana Club Cocktail Grand Prix. …
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My first encounter with an Irish coffee was when I was in my late teens, winging it as a waitress in Brisbane, Australia. I was learning the ropes and trying to decipher the many alien drink orders that were given to me:…
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Have you ever eaten something and mid-chew been floored with memories of far flung time and place? Those fish and chips reminding you of holidays with your grandparents as a kid, retro chocolate bars (for me Freddie Frogs) of messing…
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