The Taste&Flair Easter Sunday edition is now online - 160 pages packed with beautiful photographs, gorgeous things for the home, wonderful food and great ideas to put Spring in your step.
Gin is in. Learn more about all the different kinds of gin and how to make some fabulous gin cocktails with Rodney Pisani, new president of the Maltese Bartenders Guild. April and May is when Malta goes wild for luscious red strawberries, most of them grown around Mġarr, Bidnija, Wardija and Żebbiegħ.
This issue includes Jade Camilleri's first feature for Taste&Flair, she's picked gorgeous berries and come up with wonderful desserts. Michael Diacono, who has read every novel ever written by the Sicilian writer Andrea Camilleri, featuring the fictional detective Montalbano, has come up with an inspired theme this month: food from the Montalbano novels. He has taken anything from a passing reference to a full description and brought these wonderful things to the table.
Thomas Magri - a passionate maker of all things sweet and wonderful - has prepared some wonderful hazelnut desserts. There's still enough time to fit in a few more splendid Sunday roasts before the hot weather sets in and everybody is off to the beach. Adrian Bonello and Kleaven Debattista lead the way with some beautifully prepared beef rib, guinea fowl, leg of lamb and pork loin, all served with wonderful wines. Claire Borg has also been hard at work with this season's broad beans, fresh from the fields.
Design trends. When the days get brighter, we begin to think in terms of sunnier interiors - or exteriors. There are plenty of sunny accents in the shops right now. We've gone wild for orange. Check out our feature on blue & white - this long-standing favourite is back, both in the traditional forms and patterns for china but also with a 21st-century twist. There's a reason why people love it - it works beautifully in almost all interiors, from the traditional to the contemporary, and with all sorts of furniture, from antiques in burnished wood to white-painted cane. Beautiful interiors, lovely furniture and loads of style and colour in Taste&Flair, out on Easter Sunday with The Malta Independent on Sunday. Reserve your copy now.
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