Host The Perfect Easter Brunch
This sacred and joyous holiday for Christians throughout the world celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ three days after his death by crucifixion. For many Christians, especially those of Eastern and Orthodox faith, Easter is the most important holiday of the year, even over Christmas.So before I give you the best tips and recipes for [...]
Honey in Singapore
My observation of the status of honey in Singapore:Here in Singapore (where I live – a tiny, modern, prosperous island-city-state in Southeastern Asia, located at the tip of the Malaysian Penninsula), most people know very little about honey and its benefits. Honey is used mostly in marinating barbeque meats and mixing with water to make [...]
Something Old Something New – Wedding Traditions and Beliefs
The Wedding RingA ring has always been part of the wedding ceremony , even if it was only loaned for the day! The ring represented the original ‘pledge’ and was placed on the fourth finger of the bride’s left hand in the presence of a priest and a congregation. The fourth finger of the left [...]
What is Fairtrade food?
This means that Fairtrade goods are often more expensive in the UK than those without the Fairtrade logo. Although people are now arguing that supermarkets are fuelling their excessive profits by adding large mark-ups to these products This premium that the producer charges covers the basic food, housing, health and education needs of the local [...]
Creating the Idyllic Irish Wedding Proposal
How many different ways are there to pop the big question? The question that will very well determine the course of your life until death do you part? In one word: Countless. You could get down on one knee during a romantic dinner, you could dazzle her with the engagement ring after a horseback ride [...]
How to Make Homemade Wine – Getting Started
Beyond making wine from fruit, another option would be to make wine from concentrated juice. Wine juice concentrated can be easily purchased in a home brewing store as well as online. For your first batch of wine you will need a few basic ingredients. These ingredients are necessary whether you are making wine from fruit [...]
Tinto De Verano, The Summer Wine of Spain
Though “rain in Spain is mostly on the plain”, Spanish summers are delightful. And like Nobel Laureate Earnest Hemingway, if you visit the bullfighting fiesta in Pamplona or pub crawl through Montparnasse, the hills of Spain with a bottle of Tinto de Verano, the summer wine of Spain, you may call yourself extremely lucky!Tinto de [...]
How To Make Mulled Wine
Mulled wine has been enjoyed by Europeans for centuries and Americans have barely been introduced to it. Tales of good times had trickle to The States from overseas travelers and after a friendly host shares his mulled wine, the imbiber is a convert to the hot spicy goodness. Here’s a recipe and a little history.First, [...]
I Love French Wine and Food – A 2007 Beaujolais Nouveau
This article treats one of the world’s most successful marketing campaigns – the French red wine that arrives just in time for Thanksgiving, Beaujolais Nouveau. At one minute past midnight on the third Thursday in November, this wine is released for sale. Talk about market share, in the next 24 hours over one million cases [...]
A Wine Lover’s Weekly Guide to $10 Wines – A Low-Alcohol Italian Sweet Wine
Did you ever want to drink a wine with a very low alcohol level? Here’s your chance. Today’s wine is kosher, marketed by the largest kosher wine distributor in the world. It comes from the Asti province of the Piedmont region of northern Italy home to some fabulous wines that, at least usually, aren’t low-alcohol [...]
