WINE & DINE WITH ANGELA LANSBURY

  Introduction To Italian Food Seeing Sicily Italy produces some of the world's best wines and foods. As a child under the age of ten I travelled half price on P & O cruise ships and we landed in Sicily to visit the Roman ruins. Then as a student in the Sixties I went with our car on a small plane to Italy, visiting Rome, and Pisa, enjoying the myriad types of pasta.  Sardinia Later I visited Sardinia. Best Prosecco My first wines were the lower alcohol sweet and/or sparkling wines such as Asti Spumante. Now I am a protagonist for Prosecco.  At the Real Italian Wine & Food show I shall be looking for the prosecco which has been awarded the title of best Prosecco ten years running, from the company Azienda Agricola Biasiotto. Our favourite lunch time meal every Saturday back in the sugar-laden Sixties was at the Italian restaurant Dino's in Edgware station where we had canneloni. We knew nothing about healthy food and had no idea that pasta was fattening as well as...

 If you have ever worked in the Civil Service you may be eligible to join the Civil Service Club, which is between Embankment station and Charing Cross station by Trafalgar Square.  You might go there if you have a friend who is a member, or who belongs to a club which meets there, such as the Central London Wine Society (several Wednesday evenings each year). Walking up to it, or past it, you will notice that it has a front open air courtyard where members and guests can take their food and drink from the down stairs bar and indoor eating area. It is a bit like a pub, with interesting pictures of London. Bar Ground Floor Food from the bar area can be ordered if you are in a meeting upstairs and they will bring it up to your meeting room. The reception hall desk where you sign in has flowers and a picture of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the late queen. Upstairs is the main restaurant which has pillars and more pictures of royalty. For years they have had restaurant service....

You might be looking for a quotation for a dinner party speech or to advertise an event or destination.   If music be the food of love, play on. Shakespeare Cassius has a lean and hungry look. Julius Caesar, in the play of that name by William Shakespeare. Champagne - in victory you deserve it, in defeat you need it. Napoleon Bonaparte. Angela Lansbury is the author of  Quick Quotations Who Said What When Wedding Speeches & Toasts

 It is such a shame to throw away wine bottle corks. I collect corks. I love to be reminded of my favourite wines. I like recycling. Here's a quick summary of uses: 1 Fill a large glass vase with used corks to decorate a table at a dinner party, restaurant cashier desk, wine bottle display, or wine trade show. 2 Frame corks in a picture frame. No glass needed. If you have broken the glass of a frame, you can use the frame. 3 Place card holders For dinner parties and wine tastings. Slice off the cork vertically so it sits flat on the table. Make a diagonal cut to insert the name card. If you don't have the time or resources, or don't know in advance who will attend but want them to sit alternating men and women, or with VIPs beside the host or at a top table, ask business people for their business card and use that as the table card. 4 Xmas trees and Wreaths Description English:  Christmas tree and wreath made out of corks. Crop of  File:Christmas tree and wreath made out ...