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Tuesday, 23 January 2024

Missouri's state capitol punches above its weight, and is just one of a list of reasons to see Jeff City

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Europeans are regularly baffled by the seeming insignificance of American state capitals. They come from a world where capital cities have e...
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Friday, 19 January 2024

Barbecue is the taste, and the culinary star, of my Midwestern roots

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The restaurant scene in and around Jefferson City, Missouri Brits often ask me if I miss anything about the States. My usual answer is “a ca...
Friday, 12 January 2024

My first vegan dinner party was challenging, but not a disaster

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Several months ago I posted a review of two vegan restaurants in London. While I enjoyed both places, I pointed out that vegan options seem...
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Saturday, 6 January 2024

Bovey Castle delivers a New Year’s Eve out of your film fantasies

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New Year’s Eve often underwhelms. A lifetime of film and television suggests it should romantic and monumental, but too often it’s about ove...
Friday, 8 December 2023

Wunderbar! Others copy German Christmas Markets, but Munich leaves imitators far behind

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German Christmas markets are ubiquitous across England these days. It seems that every town has the same collection of wooden sheds, sellin...
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Tuesday, 28 November 2023

Ten stories that give us a better Napoleonic experience than Ridley Scott’s new bomb

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My hopes were high for Ridley Scott’s Napoleon , and they were comprehensively crushed. I can turn a blind eye to tampering with history if ...
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