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Summary
What to do with a Michelin-starred restaurant that was due to close down shortly after coronavirus struck? If you’re Roger Jones, you re-purpose it to deliver monkfish and lobster dhal or wild mushroom and truffle risotto free to local residents in need. That, and deliver some proper wines and care to an elderly mum in rural Wales.
To honour our guest, we throw ourselves into the kitchen, rustling up a very seasonal wild garlic and asparagus risotto. Which is really an excuse to find some delicious spring-like wines from the cellar – cue Sauvignon Blanc in abundance, plus a cheeky English Bacchus. And Peter has a confession for Susie…
Running Order
- Introduction: 0 – 5.25
- Interview with Roger Jones of The Harrow at Little Bedwyn: 5.26 – 13.04
- Wines for wild garlic and asparagus risotto: 14.30 – 25.04
- END: 25.48
Starring
Featured Wines
- Mud House Sauvignon Blanc 2019, New Zealand
- Chapel Down Bacchus 2018, England
- Dog Point Section 94 2009, New Zealand
Notes
- In this episode we GIVE THANKS to everyone who continues to support the show. Mainly by tuning in. But also by getting in touch. And particularly the kind people who’ve featured us in the press – like The Daily Telegraph [paywall], The Evening Standard, The Drinks Business and Club Oenologique.
- Roger Jones muses over his ideal quarantine wine. The 1947 or 1954..?!
- Other names for wild garlic? Devil’s garlic, gypsy’s onions and stinking Jenny.
- Please be careful not to confuse wild garlic with Lily of the Valley. The latter is poisonous. The former is only poisonous to vampires.
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Recipe
Wild garlic and asparagus risotto
This bright green risotto is full of the joys of spring. If you can’t find wild garlic it also works with a nice home-made, garlicy basil pesto. Feel free to substitute shelled broad beans for the Edamame and broccoli for the peas – in fact any green vegetable you happen to most like.
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