FOOD &. DRINK
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Food news served neat help from Pip Hills. He’s a founder Of
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~ it’s officral. Edinburgh’s trendy Oxygen ‘ Bar & Grill faced an impossible . i... ‘ ' i ' dilemma last week, when asked to ' " 7 choose between those twin forces of good and evil: nicotine and oxygen. " “s, l ‘ .- . ’The fire brigade and Environmental ‘ ‘ i Health said if we wanted to continue . serving oxygen, we’d have to become “ ' a non-smoking bar — and that‘s just ' " ,, v x < i not a viable option' said surprisingly #W‘mwe‘
‘ T . , upbeat manager Will Reynolds. But I ‘5. $113 ' then the absence of this novelty, and - ALL We,“ return flights booked on the Internet! .- 3N”; 1” frankly pricey, gimmick is unlikely to
hurt busmess too much: ’The oxygen was just a sideline anyway, the food has always been more important'. The Glenfiddich Awards for 2000 Wlll be announced on May 10. The annual prizes are for food and drink writing, publishing and television and are often a handy guide when choosing a new Delia Smith nominated for How to cookbook or Wine gurde. Past Winners
Cook of the trophy include Jane Grigson and
Nigel Slater. The shortlists this time
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The King o'Drinks is of c0urse whisky round include inevitable nominations and a new publication under that for Jamie Oliver and Delia Smith. The name aims to teach you how to taste newspaper categories are dominated and ,Iudge the confusing array of styles. by the London broadsheets, but
For those fond of a drop of the hard congratulations to Jonathan Basan of stuff, but a little mystified by the The Sunday Herald for a nomination
mystique that Surrounds malts (too for his food photography.
there's lots happening throughout May 2000
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