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25th August 2022 CAN’T ‘BEET’ A SUMMER SALAD!
By now you probably all know my eternal love and fascination with the beet – my most favourite of vegetables. What did Tom Robbins say in ‘Jitterbug Perfume’? “A tale that begins with a beet will end with the devil. That is a risk we will have to take.” Great book, great vegetable. What’s that […]
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Food 
19th August 2022 ‘VALENCIA SUMMER FRUIT TART’
How fabulous is Valencia during the summer? The weather is magnificent and the city has a more relaxed vibe. Awakening in the fresh light, the city is alluring, people are in their summer-fun mode and the pace is perfect. Restaurants and bars are opening again and it’s a joy to be strolling around the historic […]
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drinks 
3rd August 2022 Science, common sense and brewing mastery: how to avoid the most common mistakes when pouring a beer
’24/7 VALENCIA’ INTERVIEW A VALENCIAN BREWMASTER A must, it is one of the hits of the summer, a guaranteed success on any terrace, ‘verbena’, gathering with friends and family, esmorzaret or aperitif. Throughout the year, but especially in the summer months, the mind and heart ask for a ‘cool beer’ to soothe the heat and […]
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Food 
25th July 2022 SUMMER FRUITS…FIG JAM!
Figs are the most quintessential of summer fruits and a particular favourite of mine. Once, rather drunk at a house party in Australia in the summer of ’98 in Fremantle, where fig trees grow in backyards like Boganvilleas do in Spain…I spied a laden fig tree in the early crepuscular light! Seizing opportunity and armed […]
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Editorial 
6th August 2017 Summer in Valencia
HOT TOWN – Summer in the city I was sitting at the Escalones de la Lonja a couple of years ago, washing down calamares with beer on a night when the high for the day hit 28 degrees. The Gothic gargoyles of La Lonja loomed overhead, the façade of the Central Market stared me in […]
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Editorial 
15th July 2016 Walking on Sunshine
Sunscreen Valencia, as the editorials of this magazine often remind us, is a sun soaked leisure paradise reflected in the glorious blue waters of the Mediterranean. You can’t really argue with the viewpoint except during the monsoon known as the ‘‘Gota Fria’’ in October, and an increasing number of fair skinned northern Europeans are coming […]
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Editorial 
12th July 2016 Benidorm
Benidorm Summer is here and people from all over Europe and the rest of Spain flock to the Valencia coast. Towns like Cullera, Gandia, Calpe and Dénia increase their populations tenfold in the summer months. Valencia prides itself on its wealth of history, architecture and art but it is sun, sea and sand, a formula […]
