Showing posts with label wine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wine. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Dancing Shoes Should be Worn!

Hello friends, Eddie back with you again after my spell of boat minding. I have to say that although George & Yorkie are very dear friends of mine, on this occasion I don't agree with them. I'm talking about their feeling that Greek dancing should be left to the experts, as reported in their last post.

Well, a few days after George & Yorkie's night on the town, I was out and about on the island of Meganisi and had a meal with our minders and friends at a taverna where there was Greek dancing. Once the owner had finshed waiting on tables, he, and his brother the cook, took to the floor and impressed us all with a very accomplished piece of dancing. They then encouraged us all to join in, and I always say, that if someone is friendly and encouraging to you, then you should be the same back.


I therefore wasted no time in joining in and boy did I have fun. There is certainly a lot of truth in that saying, 'if you can't beat them join them'. My efforts and those of the others who joined in certainly brought a lot of smiles to the faces of the local Greeks. Getting us to dance was also good for their business as we worked up such a thirst by being so energetic that we all put in orders for lots more drinks.

In the meantime, were George & Yorkie converted? When I looked round for them I found them totally absorbed by the local wine.


Mind you I can't say really blame them as it was rather good (and very cheap!)

Lots of love Eddie xxx

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Taste Buds in Action

Chelmer and Rocko returned from their trip to Morrisons with lots of fair trade products. We decided to have a fair trade tasting session to critically evaluate the products and see if we could recommend them to our friends, not only on ethical grounds, but also on grounds of taste.


As you'll see from our picture we put to the test: tea, coffee, hot chocolate, wine and bananas. We all had a taste / sip of each and compared tasting notes. Not surprisingly the wine proved to be the most popular but that probably says more about the audience than the product!

The verdict from us all is, buy fair trade products as they do taste good as well as doing the producers a lot of good.

We do like a win/win situation.

Lots of love, Chef Oakly and the tasting team xxx