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MENU
DORSET
W
e have a proposal for you. Let’s move
January. Yes, the whole month. We can
swap it with March or April.
Sorry to mess up your calendars and diaries, but
it comes at the wrong time of year. While we fully
acknowledge that we can’t continue Christmas
excess for much longer as our bodies and wallets
won’t hold out, we are also not ready for any kind of
serious health kick right now. It’s the middle of winter.
It’s freezing cold and dark. We want comfort food and
to stay inside. Not power walks and giving things up.
Let’s retreat instead to a good local pub (p.21),
drink nice ales (p.64) and winter cocktails (p.55), and
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eat spicy things and chocolatey treats (p.39). We’ll
be much more amenable to some clean living when
the weather is warmer and we’re not staring down the
barrel of a whole new year.
So are you with us? We’re not sure the intro page
of Menu is influential enough to get this idea off
the ground but we have to try. Show your support
by abandoning all resolutions until then, swerving
the gym and meeting us down the pub. This issue
celebrates some of Dorset’s finest locals. Like Tibet
and mountains, this county has more
Robin Alway
Editorial Director
than its fair share of decent pubs with
good food and proper beer. Let’s have
Contributors
Nick Marshall
Has fallen in love.
With his local.
Actually with your
local too. In fact,
with lots of Dorset’s
finest locals. Why
should a man with
his appetite be limited to just one?
a lock-in until March!
Two Thirsty Gardeners Tom East
With summer
beers now a
distant sunny
memory Rich
Hood and Nick
Moyle share
a nice strong
winter ale or four with us.
Tom has been
formulating
Cole’s Law:
always slice your
cabbage extra
thin. Join him
for a celebration
of brassicas on p.8.
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Alison Smith
Alison finds a
local gem of a pub
and settles in with
a glass of red and
some good food. If
you see her, please
let her know she
can leave now.