SPICE up YOUR LIFE ROSL's Food Revolution
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ISSUE 725 MARCH - MAY 2021 SPICE UP YOUR LIFE ROSL’s food revolution 22607 Steinway ROSL MAR/May21 BlackMP.qxp_Layout 1 19/01/2021 13:21 Page 1 WELCOME BLACK MASTERPIECE LIMITED EDITION The Royal Over-Seas League is dedicated In honour of the 20th anniversary of the Steinway Crown Jewels series we present to championing international friendship and understanding through cultural and education “ Looking ahead at BLACK MASTERPIECE – an edition limited to 20 models worldwide with a sophisticated activities around the Commonwealth and beyond. black look that will delight lovers of clear design. A not-for-profit private members’ organisation, we’ve been bringing like-minded people what will no doubt together since 1910. OVERSEAS EDITORIAL TEAM Editor be a brighter and Mr Mark Brierley: [email protected]; +44 (0)20 7408 0214 Design better springtime” zed creative: www.zedcreative.co.uk ROYAL OVER-SEAS LEAGUE Writing in the time of yet another lockdown, I’m aware of how important Incorporated by Royal Charter keeping up morale is for all of the ROSL community. In part, this is done Patron HM The Queen Vice-Patron HRH Princess Alexandra KG GCVO by keeping in touch, tuning into online events and conversations, but President The Rt Hon The Lord Geidt GCB GCVO OBE QSO PC also through looking ahead at what will no doubt be a brighter and better Chairman The Hon. Alexander Downer AC springtime now that the vaccination programme is being rolled out. Deputy Chairman Anne Wilkinson Hon Treasurer Richard Harbord FCA In particular, the ROSL team, led by Resident Manager Warren Miller, Over-Seas House, Park Place, St James’s Street, is working hard to put in place a new food and beverage offering for London SW1A 1LR; +44 (0)20 7408 0214; Fax +44 (0)20 7499 6738; [email protected]; members upon reopening. After a formal catering beauty parade just www.rosl.org.uk before Christmas, presented to members of Central Council, the Senior CENTRAL COUNCIL Anjola-Oluwa Adeniyi, Paul Arkwright CMG, Leadership Team and I took the collective and unanimous decision to take Ruth Bala, The Hon. Alexander Downer AC, Nabeel Goheer, Richard Harbord FCA, catering back in-house. Already many impressive candidates have applied Alistair Harrison CMG CVO, Anthony Teasdale, for the new Executive Chef and Food & Beverage Manager positions. Susan Walton, Helen Prince, Atholl Swainston-Harrison, Anne Wilkinson Director-General The ROSL team is very excited about the coming months, and looking Dr Annette Prandzioch: +44 (0)20 7408 0214 x201; forward to unveiling and rolling out the new offering to members. [email protected] Chief Finance Officer Not only will we ensure members have the option of their favourite club Alexis Corzberg FCMA: [email protected] Director of Membership, classics, but we also aim to offer international cuisine in tune with our Marketing and Communications mandate of international friendship in the Commonwealth and beyond, Jon Kudlick: +44 (0)20 7408 0214 x204; [email protected] maybe even delivered by the occasional international chef in residence, Director of Education Projects Margaret Adrian-Vallance MBE: together with the new Executive Chef. During the course of this year, we +44 (0)20 7408 0214 x307; [email protected] will also launch a ROSL wine club – we are sure this will prove popular! Artistic Director Geoff Parkin: +44 (0)20 7408 0214 x325; And we will continue to make the most of our wonderful garden and [email protected] Resident Manager terrace, with the introduction of outdoor heating, and exciting pop-ups Warren Miller: +44 (0)20 7408 0214 x203; [email protected] on food and drink. Also, during the course of 2021, we will introduce an Director of HR afternoon tea in the newly and elegantly refurbished drawing room. Sarah Banner: [email protected] Membership And a further item on our catering agenda is to provide pre-concert menus, +44 (0)20 7408 0214 x214; [email protected] and other food and beverage offerings around the splendid music and arts For more contacts visit www.rosl.org.uk/the-team Print Gemini Print Group: +44 (0)127 346 4884 programmes, as well as the public and international events series we have The journal is published by the Royal Over-Seas League, Over-Seas House, Park Place, St James’s Street, just launched. And the entire team is keen to build up to bringing a fine London SW1A 1LR. Any views expressed in editorial and any advertisements included are not necessarily dining option for members to ROSL in the splendid Art Deco dining room. endorsed by the Central Council. ISSN 00307424 BLACK MASTERPIECE grand pianos are issued as model B 211cm and are equipped All in all, we hope you agree there’s a lot to look forward to! with , the most modern technology Steinway currently has to offer. Dr Annette Prandzioch DIRECTOR-GENERAL Steinway Hall London W1U 2DB For more information or to arrange a private appointment at our London showrooms, please call: 0207 487 3391 or email [email protected] WWW.ROSL.ORG.UK 3 From the EDITOR The pandemic has changed many aspects of our lives over the past 12 months, some only temporarily, but some for a lifetime. What we eat and drink has certainly been impacted, with most of us forced to eat at home almost exclusively. This has led some of us to brush up on our cooking skills, some to start growing our own at home, and many more to long for the day when restaurants reopen! In this edition of Overseas, we take a look at how food and drink is changing, not “ When life threw me only in terms of what we are eating, but also how it is 22 produced, how it is cooked, and how it is disposed of. a curveball, I turned On page 22, Natalie Healey looks at how you can get started in your garden, or even on your window to gardening as a ledge, with growing your own vegetables and herbs. No experience needed! distraction. It turned The rise in so-called flexitarianism over the past few years has seen many take a closer look at their out to make me diets and try to reduce the amount of meat they eat as a result. In December 2020, the first lab-grown meat product was approved in Singapore, making its really happy” restaurant debut a few weeks later. On page 26, Abi Millar asks if now the time for cultured meat – billed as an ethical alternative to farmed meat – to start gaining traction? In the UK alone, 4.5 million tonnes of edible food is WELCOME NEWS & EVENTS wasted by families every year, equivalent to £700 per 3 From the D-G favourite dishes from 15 My City: growing their own food. 32 ROSL's new link Council, legacies, household. On page 18, we find out how can we get With a new food and their home country Washington, DC Natalie Healey finds out with Tanzania and more better at buying, storing, using, and reusing our food? drink offering under way, Member Kathleen Mistry how anyone can get started Margaret Adrian-Vallance 41 there's plenty to look 10 Heard it through gives us the highlights explains how our Event highlights We also take a trip around the Commonwealth by 26 Meat the new meat The dust has barely forward to in 2021 the grapevine of her hometown support for marginalised asking ROSL staff about the cuisine and favourite In December, the first settled on last year's 150 years and five communities around the dishes of their home countries, on page 8. lab-grown meat product Annual Music generations has made Commonwealth is more was approved in Singapore. Competition, but we're Of course, no discussion of food and drink would be ROSL PEOPLE the Davy family expert WORLD important than ever in wine merchants. As Is now the time for cultured back again already, complete without talking about ROSL’s own catering. 6 Homemade 18 Going zero waste these difficult times meat, billed as an ethical plus new Evelyn As Annette has already mentioned, the decision was After 16 years using an suppliers to ROSL, In the UK alone, 4.5 alternative to farmed meat, 34 News & views taken at the end of 2020 to bring our catering back external caterer, ROSL Chairman James Davy million tonnes of edible Wrench lectures and to start gaining traction? Another successful in house. With plans progressing at speed, we hear is bringing its food and tells us what it takes to food is wasted by families member-led events Incognito postcard drink back in house. bring the best to every year. How can we from ROSL’s Warren Miller about the exciting exhibition, the winner 42 Events calendar Warren Miller outlines members get better at buying, plans lined up for the clubhouse on page 6. IN THE UK of the ROSL Composition Upcoming events the exciting plans for storing, using and 12 To the Corr 30 Street food city Award, Beethoven's at the club and online, Read all these features and more, plus news from your home from home reusing our food? 2020 AMC winner In London, you are spoilt 250th birthday, progress including the ROSL HQ and upcoming events to look forward to 8 Commonwealth cook out Eleanor Corr tells Mark 22 Raring to grow for choice when it comes in our archives, new continuation of the new over the next few months. I hope you enjoy the issue, With such varied cuisine Brierley what it was like Previously unloved to street food.