Siobhán Norton

inews.co.uk • 8th July 2020

Wine and wilderness help make Tinos the perfect Greek getaway away from the crowds

Travel to Greece: wine and wilderness help make Tinos the perfect Greek getaway Flights to Greece resume in mid-July and it is likely to be popular. Head away from the crowds to Tinos, an island of vines and boulders As I alighted from the ferry in...

inews.co.uk • 3rd September 2019

Cheers Franciacorta, Italy's under-the-radar sparkling wine region

“We treat the wine like a baby,” says Jessica, as she fills a glass with precision. “We take care of everything.” Of course, parents can’t have favourites, but as I take a sip, I find myself immediately charmed by the saten – a silky sparkling wine...

inews.co.uk • 24th May 2019

Ryan Riley: Meet the food therapist treating a loss of taste

Ryan Riley has a contacts book that most culinary professionals would give their eye teeth for. The 25-year-old rubs shoulders with Nigella Lawson, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Jamie Oliver, all of whom are championing his new cookery school. Yet...

inews.co.uk • 2nd May 2019

The man who gets through 200 glasses of wine a day

It’s not long after lunch and the room is busy, filled with people sitting at tables laden with glasses of wine. But there’s no bawdy chat, no laughter or clinking of glasses – almost everyone is silent, tapping away at their tablets after every...

I • 26th July 2018

How to make your food look good enough to Instagram

A decade ago, telling someone that you were a “food stylist” would have been met with a blank stare, if not an eye-roll. And some people might still react like that now – after all, purely worrying about what food looks like in photographs, beyond how...

iNews • 7th September 2017

Do you love or hate Marmite? It might be all down to your genetics

It has divided opinion for more than a century, but now there might be a scientific reason to explain why some people loathe Marmite – and others love it. The makers of the yeast-based spread teamed up with the genetic testing centre DNAFit to...

iNews • 6th September 2017

Could pink-coloured 'ruby' chocolate be the world's next superfood?

Someone’s laughing all the way to the bank: they’ve found a way to make chocolate in millennial pink. The new ‘ruby chocolate’, made from the ruby cocoa bean for a blush-hued treat, is an Instagrammer’s dream, and bound to be coveted by couples on...

iNews • 22nd August 2017

National Burger Day: how the humble hamburger got hip

In the US sitcom How I Met Your Mother, Marshall embarks on a quest to rediscover the best burger in New York. “The bun, like a sesame freckled breast of an angel, resting gently on the ketchup and mustard below, flavours mingling in a seductive pas...

iNews • 22nd July 2017

Chef Chris Denney: 'Michelin stars? I'm just keeping my head down'

The fickle British food scene is always crying out for the hottest new thing – and there was quite a buzz when 108 Garage landed in West London last October. Sticking out like a sore thumb in frou frou Westbourne Grove with its stripped-back decor...

iNews • 11th April 2017

Meet the food blogger that has chefs eating out of his hand

Steve Plotnicki doesn’t seem like your typical food blogger – after all, he isn’t 22, female or snapchatting love-heart inscribed pictures of avocado toast. “I guess I’m a blogger with a capital B,” he says, laughing. Plotnicki, the creator of...

iNews • 4th October 2017

This chef wants you to taste your food with every single sense

It’s bucketing rain in a nondescript estate somewhere in Barnet, north London. I’m hesitating, when a smiling man under a large umbrella approaches. “You’re right on time,” he says, pointing in the direction of an industrial lift. It’s a relief when...