JAPANESE chef and cookery teacher Teruko Chagrin, one of the regular Japanese and Thai food tutors at White Pepper Cookery School at Lytchett Matravers, shares her recipe for delicious a Japanese-style omelette with Dorset sweet Kombu seaweed. Teruko was inspired to create this and some other recipes using a small piece of local dried seaweed…
by Simone Sekers IT’s raining again, and so I am searching through my collection of tattered recipe books for something to do with the glut of mulberries we are enjoying. These are fruit about which much is written in terms of flavour, but little in terms of what to do with them. Many people don’t…
BATH Theatre Royal ends its summer season in triumphant style with the world premiere of a new musical set in and around the Windmill Theatre in London between 1937 and 1940 Based on the film Mrs Henderson Presents, the show has a new collection of songs by with lyrics by Don Black and music by…
THERE really WAS a storm on the lawn for the final production at Prior Park after 18 seasons – the opening night was rained off! But the 36 young performers were ready to challenge the weather gods on Thursday, giving a powerful performance of Mark Powell and Ben Occhipinti’s new musical, The Teacup Poisoner. Based…
CARYL Churchill is surely one of this country’s leading playwrights, her best known plays probably being Top Girls, about the rise of women to the top of business and politics, written during the Thatcher era, and Serious Money, about stock market traders in the same Thatcher era or monetarism, and premiered in 1987, the year…
SOME of the finest food and drink producers from Dorset and Somerset were at the 2015 Gillingham and Shaftesbury Show, offering sparkling flavours and warm feelings despite the wretched weather. For the first time, this year saw a Dorset Farmers Market marquee with several of the best-known market members selling their wares to crowds who…
A STARTLING modern-dress and high-tech version of Macbeth played to 450 people in late summer sunshine in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s open air venue, The Dell. The two performances by Warminster’s Athenaeum Limelight Players was part of the RSC’s 2015 Open Stages programme and ALP chairman Adela Forestier-Walker said it had been a great challenge…
IF the spirit of Noel Coward hovers around any theatre where his plays are being staged, it must have been very blithe last week, when Dramatic Productions staged his delightful satire on the vogue for seances and spiritualism in the appropriately Art Deco setting of Wimborne’s Tivoli Theatre. Blithe Spirit is usually seen primarily as…
THE New England seaboard is famed for its lobster, so Philippa Davis thought she should learn a little more about this delicious crustacean as well as cooking and eating lobster after lobster for her Boston clients. Theoretically, a lobster can live forever. They have an enzyme called telomerase, which prevents the DNA from becoming damaged…
DURING her working visit to Boston, North Dorset-born chef Philippa Davis cooked as lot of lobster. She also learned to cook the classic brioche for the US East Coast traditional sensation, lobster sandwich. She says it is definitely not one of her quicker recipes but she has become obsessed with making it now that she…