I want to have tea with Sir Hugh! Right now!!

• Appar­ently, Greg thought I was in dan­ger of actu­ally get­ting some­thing done today, because he sent me a link to a blog­post guar­an­teed to make me waste time. It’s from FX Cui­sine, the globe-trotting adven­tures of a Swiss cheese-lover named Fran­cois. I was okay with it when he was just going on about hand­crafted cheeses … and then he had to go and have tea in London.

  This is a very good restau­rant, says Sir Hugh with his eyes star­ing in mid air, obvi­ously rel­ish­ing some gas­tro­nomic memory. …

  We are at the Wolse­ley, a spec­tac­u­lar 1920 build­ing that … remained a bank until 2003 when two bright restau­rantuers turned it into one of the most stun­ning archi­tec­tures I’ve eaten in.

  Clot­ted cream is an Eng­lish spe­cialty, orig­i­nally from Corn­wall. You make clot­ted cream by fill­ing a giant pot with cream and gen­tly evap­o­rate the water over a low fire until the cream thick­ens and takes the ivory patina of the Elgin Mar­bles, one of Sir Hugh’s favorite works of art.

  “I hope you like this place,” says Lady Gaynor, then she adds, “We came here last year with Princess Alexandra.”

  I say I love the place, but who is Princess Alexan­dra, won­der­ing if that might be some local pop star.

  “She is one of the Queen’s cousins,” she explains with a cour­te­ous smile.

  Read the rest HERE, if you can stand to hear your­self whim­per. (And by the way, all the pic­tures come from FX Cui­sine. Oh fine, so he’s a good pho­tog­ra­pher too. My jeal­ous heart brims over!)

  

  
  

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• greg­w­brooks 04.26.2011
  

  I think it’s down­right ascetic of you to avoid men­tion­ing the guy’s dis­cus­sion of clot­ted cream.

• Word­mama
  

  Now I’m going to be think­ing about really good tea and scones all day. Blast!

  BTW, love the redesign of the site — nicely done.

• Wendy
  

  Oh dear! CLOTTED CREAM!!!!! You can’t find good clot­ted cream out­side of Great Britain. I want to buy a plane ticket so I can go here! I guess I’ll just have to con­tent myself with going and read­ing some Jane Austen.

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