For the definative answer, may I suggest that you purchase, borrow or rent the most excellent "Dubretts Etiquette and Modern Manners updated by the wonderful John Morgan a few years back. He used to write for the UK Times on...

You all need to get a copy of this fab book. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Prawn-tail-Years-Simon-Hopkinson/dp/0333725948 I think Black Forest Gateau is ripe for a comeback. Chocolate, booze soaked cherries, cream – what a combo!

) to find out about the terrorist round up in the UK and the new restrictions on carryon items, realizing that you will have to leave for the airport much earlier than planned. You quickly repack, and then decide to continue...

In the UK quoted prices are including tax – is it not the same in the US? If they are not, then retail prices could be calculated so that the tax brings them to a whole dollar. It just seems bizarre that one can charge a...

fats—¡no tiene nada que ver! Spain is the second biggest consumer of seafood in the world and the foremost consumer of olive oil. They eat twice as many fruits and vegetables as many other European countries (the UK, for...

info on pink wine: http://www.weimax.com/weimax_r.htm And there’s lots more information, albeit aimed at UK drinkers, at Drink Pink: http://www.drink-pink.com/ Anne

I agree that nothing here can hold a candle to Indian restaurants and takeaways in the UK. I still occasionally sigh over a takeout menu from a hole-in-the-wall place in a non-descript town in Scotland where we got a mess of...

longer to cook, typically. Definitely worth experimenting, I’d say. http://www.cooksillustrated.com/recipe.asp?recipeids=3494&bdc=41928 http://judyskitchen.blogspot.com/2007/11/judys-brown-rice-paella.html http://uktv.co.uk

ramen in the UK.

of chopsticks because of the de-forestation of their country. Pretty interesting stuff: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4831734.stm

Oh, duh. I just realized that you are probably in the UK, where McVitie’s ARE in the supermarkets! Lucky!

lol I am so pale that, if that had been me floating there, the US Coast Guard and the NOAA would have scrambled more than a few tracker aircraft assuming that B-15 had somehow migrated to that area of the world....

hear about the confrerie and the specifics about the inclusion or not of goose, pork or mutton. The two examples I tried were not identified by regional style. Link: http://travel.timesonline.co.uk...

Ah yes, found the site. http://www.finefoodworld.co.uk/default.asp?parentID=15&id=30 I see that Cabot Clothbound Cheddar took a Sliver medal in the Mature traditional Cheddar made after 01/09/07 category.

to dress smartly (“proper” shirt and trousers). If, however, the latter, then I can’t really answer. I struggle to think of anywhere in the UK apart from restaurants in a couple of the the stuffier hotels like...