Boxing Day 2011

Note: didn't have any of this, just more seafood!

Breakfast
Sausages
TBD


Main
Confit duck, sautéed pots, pate, olives, sundried toms, etc.

Dessert
TBD
Cheeses

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Foods I don't get on with

Peanuts (allergy)
Bananas give me bad guts (sister has the same)
Kidney beans (whilst there's no evidence that these are allergens I'm convinced they're bad)

Names for brother

Wrongjay
Brother Wrong
The Bear
Brojay
Reginald P. Bear
RPB
Woodcote
Woodley Woodington
Brojolais

Restaurants I have known (2011)

Located in Brighton unless otherwise stated.



3 star
Dinner (Knightsbridge)

2 star
The Medicine Chest
Sam's of Seven Dials
Jamie's (Brighton)
The House

Tipazia

1 star
China Garden
Lion and Lobster

Cheeses I have known (2011)

4 star

Gruyère
Good enough to savour on its own: just slice a piece off and nibble on it.

3 star


Woolsery Goat
Balanced, not too goaty.

P'tit Basque
Nutty, delicious, looks like a pork pie.

Swiss Alp Panorama
Not unlike Gruyère but with a curious herb crust that smells most peculiar but works very well.

Manchego
Rubbery and pourous; a slightly guilty secret.

Brebirousse d'Argental
Creamy with a distinctive orange washed rind.

Cornish Yarg wrapped in wild garlic
I'm a huge fan of wild garlic. And what better than good cheese wrapped in wild garlic?

Vignotte
Pure white with a very slight crumble. An excellent day cheese.


Langres
A distinctive washed-rind cheese; smooth, with a blue note.

Leerdammer Caractère

Very smooth. I'd imagine a good melter.

Raging Bull 

A unusual herb taste that takes a bit of getting used to. But I think it's worth it.

Teleggio
Ossau-Iraty
Saint Albray

2 star

Waitrose brand Tomme do Chevre
Nice price, perhaps a little bitter; may be improved with a pickle.

Cashel Blue
Probably as blue as I'll go. Good for Christmas.

1 star

Raclette
Salty but cheap.

Books I have known (2011)

3 star
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry (lent to RS)

2 star
Eats Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Trus
Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry The Wavewatcher's Companion by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
A Little Book of Language by David Crystal Breakfast With Socrates by Robert Rowland Smith
The Wavewatcher's Companion [Hardcover] by Gavin Pretor-Pinney

ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever [Paperback]
My Booky Wook by Russell Brand


1 star
How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog by Chad Orzel (Didn't get on with this) (lent to RS)

All listed on Amazon.

Books I have known (language)

(Those struck-through I cannot find.)

Chinese

Simplified Character: The Quick and Easy Method to Learn the 100 Most Basic Chinese Characters by Alison Matthews

Arabic

Arabic Phrase Book and CD by Berlitz

Japanese

Read and Write Japanese Scripts: Teach Yourself by Helen Gilhooly

Thai

PDQ Thai (Linguaphone Pdq) - Audio CD (Mar 2002) by Sonthida Keyuravong

Hindi

Teach Yourself Hindi Book/CD Pack (Teach Yourself Complete Courses)

Gujarati

Gujarati (Teach Yourself) by Rachel Dwyer (Visit http://www.soas.ac.uk/southasia/languages/gujarati/ for the audio.)

ડંખ by Vittal Pandya

Universal English-Gujarati Dictionary by Pandurang Ganesh Deshpande (This isn't as universal as I would like.)

Talk Now! Learn Gujarati: Essential Words and Phrases for Absolute Beginners - CD-ROM

Catalan

Diccionari Oxford Pocket Catala: Per a Estudiants D'Angles

Italian

Chambers Italian Grammar

Italian Phrase Book (Eyewitness Travel Guides Phrase Books) by DK

Italian Visual Phrase Book: See it • Say it • Live it (Eyewitness Travel Visual Phrase Book)

Portuguese

Essential Portuguese Grammar (Dover Books on Language)

Spanish

Spanish Short Stories: Cuentos En Espanol (New Penguin Parallel Text Series) by John R King

Spanish Dictionary Plus Grammar

Easy Spanish Crossword Puzzles (Language - Spanish) by Jane Burnett

English

Lancashire English by Fred Holcroft

French

Merde!: The Real French You Were Never Taught at School by Genevi eve

French Word Puzzles (Foreign Language Word Puzzles) by Marcel Danesi

1001 Pitfalls in French by James H. Grew, et al

A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi: The Ideal Guide to Sounding, Acting and Shrugging Like the French by Charles Timoney

Pardon My French: Unleash Your Inner Gaul by Charles Timoney

1001 Most Useful French Words (Beginners' Guides) (Beginners' Guides) by Buxbaum Author

French Grammar (Barron's Grammar Series) by Christopher Kendris

French Short Stories Volume 1 / Nouvelles Francaises Tome 1 (Penguin Parallel Text) by Pamela Lyon

French short stories: Nouvelles Francaises (New Penguin Parallel Text Series): Short Stories in French by Richard Coward

Colloquial French by C.W.E. Kirk-Green

Guide de l'anglais et de l'américain des affaires by G. Baxter, A. Lavignac

Autoportrait d'un autre - reves de l'ile et de la ville d'antan by Cees Nooteboom

Collins Gem - French Dictionary: French - English / English - French

Dictionnaire français-anglais, anglais-français des termes médicaux et biologiques de P. Lépine *

Latin

Amo, Amas, Amat... and All That by Harry Mount

Learn Latin: The Book of 'The Daily Telegraph' QED Series by Peter Jones


* listed on Amazon.