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Inspired cocktail and food pairings with Mount Gay rum
Mention cocktail and food matching and we’re all yours. The way that we see it is spirits come from foodie sources (agave, sugar cane, barley, malt, potatoes, wheat and we won’t even leave there about the botanicals found in gin), so why shouldn’t they oust wine from the table? Not all the day, granted but when you’re looking for something a bit more left-field, a bit more challenging than a Pinot Noir or a glass of Chablis, a cocktail should definitely enter the conversation. It’s a concept that divides many a chef and bartender – some absolutely love the extra mind that goes into taunting out the flavour compounds in spirits and matching them up to mains while others say it’s an absolute no-no.
Rum brands seem to be much more willing than most to embrace the thought. To date we’ve had some spirited foodie adventures with the fabulous folk at Angostura and Zacapa 23 and last week Mount Gay were added to the mix. The team did a fantastic career familiarising us with the five expressions in its portfolio (Eclipse, the go-to house classic; Silver, the white one; Black Barrel, the new sma
Recently, Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy had some unkind things to say about queer families, and a lot of people (present firm included) didn’t care for his comments one bit. That shouldn’t surprise you: I’m a gay dude, I’m married, I’m from the South — raised in a Southern Baptist family — and I’m a chef. So an Atlanta-based fast-food baron talking about how he understands the Bible enough to say that my animation and marriage aren’t legitimate doesn’t sit well with me.
A lot troubles me about this debate, but beyond the cherry-picking of Scripture to reinforce bigotry or the message that hateful rhetoric sends to young LGBT kids, there’s an element of this discussion that cuts away at a something I’ve held dear my whole life: the ability of food to bring people together. It’s a gloomy state when “comfort food” tears communities apart, making so many people undergo attacked and unwanted.
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Here’s perhaps what makes me the most uncomfortable: Mr. Cathy owns more than 1,500 restaurants and serves up far more fried chicken than I perform in my four. But I’ll say this: no matter how big the kitchen or seasoned the chef,
Gay – Odin: Mr Odin, Mrs Male lover and the chocolate factory!
As soon as you enter any of their 9 shops with the characteristic old, mahogany storefronts and exhibit cases, you perceive you’ve stepped advocate in time and at the matching time you realise you’ve entered the most amazing chocolate world! The intoxicating scent of cocoa, the endless variety of chocolates and the Foretsa, their most famous product and pièce de résistance, don’t permit anyone unmoved! Especially the latter, a chocolate creation based in a highest secret recipe and formed into an interestingly folded, woven shape, very similar to a vegetation trunk, is a product famous all over Italy. And what was the best surprise for me, when entering for the first time a Lgbtq+ Odin shop on a hot summer day? “Foresta” comes in gelato too!!! Actually, this is the place for the best chocolate gelato in Naples, providing the matchless balance for chocolate and gelato lovers. The dense, complete bodied flavour of their hand made chocolates, either with nuts, liqueur or fruit, is transformed into delicious, sincere, artisan, top quality gelato. Apart from the Foresta, which of course you won’t find anywhere else, the Sacher Torte is also de