WINE & DINE WITH ANGELA LANSBURY

What Is Marsala Wine And What Is It Used For? Marsala wine is a fortified  wine, used for drinking, and cooking chicken marsala and tiramisu. To make zabaglione, you add egg yolks and sugar to Marsala wine, or perhaps I should say, add |Marsala wine to egg yolks and sugar. Sicilian Marsala Fortified Wine Marsala Wine comes from the west coast of the island of Sicily, to the south of Italy. It is used in cooking to flavour the coating or sauce of Marsala chicken. Remember to type in the letter r in the middle, which I kept omitting as I typed this, and had to correct my typing.  Indian Masala Dosai The reason why your brain keeps omitting the r might be because you have often seen the similar word Masala, with the r, on Indian menus. I am very fond of masala dosai, a crisp bread rolled up and filled with spicy potato. Masala means mixed spice. The Wine Education Place and People WSET is the initials of Wine and Spirit Education Trust, which runs courses levels one, two, three a...

  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...