To most of us gourmands, kitchen gadgets are a never ending fascination. For cooking professionals it’s a preoccupation and fundamental to the logistics of a working kitchen.

Like everything related to chefs, we all want to know where the pros go to source their equipment, not only out of functionality and arming ourselves with the very best kit, but also price. Invariably there is a kitchen supply wholesaler that sells direct to the public where one can save a considerable amount of money, compared to conventional large, magnetic retailers in shopping malls or small so-called specialist shops.

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Walter Bourke Homage – Pinot Noir Producer of the Year

Must-Have Wines Best of the Lunar Year – 2010 – Year of the Tiger – Best Wine of the Year from the Cellar
Quartz Reef Pinot Noir 2002 and 2003 – Central Otago, New Zealand

New Zealand’s Quiet Achiever: Rudi Bauer, Quartz Reef

www.quartzreef.co.nz

Having long realised the most modest vignerons invariably make the best wines, I have always greatly admired Rudi Bauer, both as a person and his Quartz Reef wines. You will not find a more humble winemaker than Bauer, although he does remind me a lot of Ian Marks at Gembrook Hill, in the Yarra Valley, Australia, both hypercritical of their wines, continually censuring themselves.

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My only English newspaper connection with the outside world last week, on the island of Koh Samui, Thailand, was the International Herald-Tribune, which I have to say is an excellent publication, and one I read regularly whenever wandering…

What caught my attention was this piece on coriander oil, which is not only fascinating but triggered my admiration for what I feel is Singapore’s best restaurant, Coriander Leaf,  www.corianderleaf.com to which I will be writing about soon.

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