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September 18, 2014 By cheryl

Jelberts (Cornwall, England): The Best Ice-Cream

photo (26)The noodging began the moment I mentioned traveling to Cornwall for work.

“You must go to Jelberts.”

“It’s really the best ice-cream.”

“You have to go.”

All this coming from a man who has given very few foods the slightest compliment in the short time I’ve known him.

I’m not a big cold sweets person myself, but two things swayed me — Dorset Boy simply adores ice-cream. And, he spent chunks of his childhood in Cornwall, a fairly short walk from Jelberts, in fact.

So when I finally set foot in Cornwall, on this southernmost bit of England, I decided I had to see what the fuss was all about. Or, never hear the end of it …

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Filed Under: Beach, British, England, Ice-Cream, So Good It Must Be Bad For You, Tales From the Road Tagged With: Beach, Cadbury, Clotted Cream, Cornwall, England, Financial Times, Flake, Helen Glover, Ice-cream, Jelberts, Jim Glover, Newlyn, Olympics, Penzance, United Kingdom

February 7, 2014 By cheryl

Solyanka: Russian Beef Soup for the Olympic Soul

Tropical girl that I am, the Winter Olympics have never held much fascination for me.

Yes, there’s figure skating — which I adore — but the rest of it usually goes by in a bewildering blur for me once the games start. (Of course, all of this could change should I ever decide to get off my tush and actually go skiing for the first time.)

Olympics-inspired food, however — now that fascinated me. So when our Let’s Lunch crew decided on an Olympic spirit-themed lunch to toast the opening of the Sochi games, I was in.

What to make? A certain Russian sweet and sour beef soup seemed just the thing for snowy conditions …

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Filed Under: Comfort Food, Let's Lunch, Russian, Soup Tagged With: Comfort Food, Olympics, Russian, Sochi, Solyanka, Soup, Spirit

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