One of these days I'd like to offer a service to producers of writing and editing scripts because I enjoy this aspect of it so much too, but alas narrated documentaries have fallen from fashion, as have narrators with voices as relatively posh as mine.
Other stuff that I do includes eating, drinking, talking and listening. The closest I have been to any commercial involvement see my ethical policy was my work as wine consultant for British Airways from until I resigned in Since early I have been a member of the Royal Household Wine Committee, choosing wines for HM the Queen to serve her guests — also on the basis of blind tastings. And in I launched my perfect wine glass with stemless version plus two decanters in conjunction with designer Richard Brendon.
In Nick dreamt up Wine Relief, an initiative designed to raise funds for the admirable work done by Comic Relief improving lives in the UK and Africa. Put 'Wine Relief' in the search box to see just how many millions have been raised through wine-related activities. He came up with Menu Relief in Since the early years of this century we have also been proud to play a part, on four continents, in the eye-wateringly successful fundraising efforts of Room to Read , an exceptional charity founded by ex-Microsoft John Wood to spread literacy throughout the developing world.
Wine has played a significant part in generating donations from Room to Read's many generous supporters around the world. I'm a Cumbrian, married to a saintly Mancunian a United fanatic since birth , Nick Lander, who writes about food and restaurants for the Financial Times and is food service consultant. He used to have a restaurant, L'Escargot, in Soho in the s and is the only restaurant critic in the world to have run such a successful restaurant.
In he published The Art of the Restaurateur which was an Economist book of the year. His second book was On the Menu. See his weekly contributions at Nick on restaurants.
We have three exceptional children vintage-dated , and , grandsons born in and and granddaughters born in and Our son, vintage , re-opened The Quality Chop House in Clerkenwell, London as a particularly wine-minded restaurant in November to considerable acclaim. It has sprouted a wine bar and wine shop, Quality Wines.
Portland , another wine-minded restaurant he co-owns, opened in January and was awarded a Michelin star nine months later. A casual version of Portland, Clipstone , followed. His father, needless to say, has not reviewed any of them. We live most of the year in London but spend summers in the Languedoc and, when possible, travel extensively. Unknown Binding , pages. More Details Original Title. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.
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