Monday 9 June 2008

Northern Eco - food and pleasure

Hi,

Welcome to my first blog page. I'm a freelance journalist based in the Northwest of England, specialising in food and drink writing. As such I have loads of ideas and see lots of stuff that gets my mind racing - and frequently my blood boiling. Thus the need for a blog.

First up, drink rather than food. The last five times I have been out for a pint in my home city of Preston the hand pump bitter has been either poor or in the case of one pub 'off' on two seperate occasions. When you go to a pub and are told they are waiting to get a man in to sort the beer out, you have to ask what are the bar staff doing.

I keep reading about pubs losing customers. Does selling crap beer (or having no beer) explain this?

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