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Counting the blessings of sheep

Environment | OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK Jan 31, 2015

Counting the blessings of sheep

by C.W. Nicol

I had been a long time away from my native Wales — in the Arctic, in Ethiopia and in Japan, where my books were beginning to sell and I was even being paid to appear in television adverts drinking whisky (not "whiskey," but Scotch), ...

Hankering for the grills and thrills of Greek cuisine

Food & Drink | A TASTE OF HOME Sep 2, 2014

Hankering for the grills and thrills of Greek cuisine

by Alex Dutson

Few things in this world are more pleasurable than sinking your teeth into heavily herbed, charcoal-grilled paidakia, the fabled lamb chops adored and revered by the Greeks. "The art is in the grilling," says Savvas Mallouri, Cypriot father of a longtime friend and a man ...

Tokyoites needn't be sheepish about New Zealand cuisine

Food & Drink | A TASTE OF HOME Jun 3, 2014

Tokyoites needn't be sheepish about New Zealand cuisine

by Rebecca Milner

New Zealand is famous for its lamb, pasture-fed on the country's rolling green hills. Lamb being hard to come by in Japan, a New Zealand restaurant is a good bet if you're craving lamb chops. There are two big ones in Tokyo: Wakanui (B1F, ...

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