by Russell Brown | Aug 13, 2015 | Russell's Blog |
A lot has changed for me in the last six months and it is pretty exciting! I thoroughly enjoyed owning and running a small restaurant, but Creative about Cuisine is opening up a world of variety. I still get to cook but I am just as likely to have a pen or camera in...
by Russell Brown | Jul 30, 2015 | Russell's Blog |
We are in Modena, Emilia-Romagna, in the north of Italy. Famous for its balsamic vinegar, Ferrari and, of course, Massimo Bottura and his three star restaurant, Osteria Francescana. This was to be a pivotal part of our trip to Italy; not quite the reason for going,...
by Russell Brown | Jun 30, 2015 | Russell's Blog |
Alessandro Bartolini, brickmaker and builder turned wine maker, walks along his rows of vines energetically twisting and pushing tendrils into their correct place on the trellises. The Chardonnay is coming on nicely but the other varieties are later and have only just...
by Russell Brown | Jun 15, 2015 | Russell's Blog |
I am not a born traveller. I suffer from that very English fear of doing the wrong thing, not being understood and have never had any real aptitude for language, so a long trip to Italy was a little daunting! We are however here and have had an exhilarating trip so...
by Russell Brown | May 8, 2015 | Russell's Blog |
So Saturday April 25th was our last service at Sienna and we certainly gave ourselves a challenging night to end on! We decided that it wouldn’t feel right to do a normal service to finish up, so we combined forces with No 35 Coffee House and Kitchen, our next...
by Russell Brown | Apr 16, 2015 | Russell's Blog |
It’s funny sometimes, when you live in a place, how little you actually explore it. Sometimes it takes having visitors or even moving away yourself and returning as a visitor to really get to know an area. I know I have been to many places in Cornwall over the years...