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There were three items he was particularly keen to fight for,
and number one was Betty’s Tea Room in Harrogate. Rimmer
loves the place - he had his wedding reception in the York
branch of the tea room and says he’d recommend a visit to
anyone. “It’s deliriously overpriced, but the level of service
and quality of food make it worthwhile. You might pay £7 for
a piece of fruitcake, but then if you were sitting opposite the
Place de l’Opera in Paris, you wouldn’t moan about your
nine-euro coffee, you’d just admire the view.
“These aren’t about everyday experiences, I’m not suggesting
going there is something you do on your way to work.”
He wasn’t quite so lucky with ‘eating cold baked beans from
the can’ and ‘eating a doner kebab’ - perhaps the rest of the
panel don’t know what it’s like to be a hungry, drunk student but his choice of fish and chips, a British Institution, made the
grade but featured way down at number 45, behind such
experiences as eating a hotdog at a baseball game.
“It was very tough deciding these things, and the meetings
were fraught with lots of shouting,” says Rimmer. “The thing
is, if we’d been asked to make a list of 500, we could’ve done
it, but I’m very pleased with the 50 things we’ve chosen. I
honestly think it’s a list for everyone.”
The food lovers’ top 50 bucket list
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1. Baking chocolate cake with your kids
29. Homemade mayonnaise
2. Takeaways with posh plonk
30. Woodland glade picnic
3. Afternoon tea at Betty’s (Harrogate)
31. Learning to joint a chicken
4. Eating Beluga caviar
32. Baking your own bread
5. Dining at Chez Panisse (California)
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33. Lunch at The Walnut Tree
(Abergavenny)
6. Eating a hot dog at a baseball game
34. Cooking a perfectly-timed
Sunday roast
7 Coffee and croissants in a Parisian café
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8. Fresh British asparagus
35. Making your own soup
9. Collecting and cooking fresh eggs
36. Early morning breakfast at
Carnegie Deli (New York)
10. Breakfast at The Wolseley (London)
11. Bread and butter pudding
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37 Making your own marmalade
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12. Cornish clotted cream
13. Catching and cooking a mackerel on a beach
38. Making homemade ice cream
14. Marinated BBQ’d lamb
39. Tapas in San Miguel market
(Madrid)
15. Crispy crackling
40. Pork pies
16. Curing raw fish at home
41. Dawn fry-up at Smithfield
Market (London)
17 Cooking a curry from scratch
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42. International wine trail
18. Growing your own vegetables
43. British ale with a Scotch egg
19. Dining at Racine (London)
44. Sushi at Tsukiji fish market
(Tokyo)
20. Chocolate fondant pudding
21. Fresh seafood by the sea
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45. Takeaway fish ‘n’ chips
22. Fresh honeycomb
23. Chocolate eclairs
24. Set lunch menu at Le Gavroche (London)
25. Greengages
46. Guinness at the Stag’s Head,
Dublin
47 Dining at The Seahorse (Devon)
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48. Wild British strawberries
26. Blackberry picking
49. Toasting a haggis with whisky
27 Dining at L’Enclume (Cumbria)
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28. Visiting Jamaa El Fna Square (Marrakesh)
50. Street food in Asia
:: To download the free Food Lovers Bucket List booklet visit: www.kenwoodworld.com/foodloverslist
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