The Connaught Grill welcomed two old friends for a conversation. An old friend and I reunited for dinner. We originally met at Heathrow Airport at four in the morning, travelling out to Egypt, where we were about to have two weeks of filming, from which we have lived off these stories ever since. A proper dinner at one of London’s top hotels is a perfect way to escape the hustle and bustle, let go, enjoy good conversation over a refined dinner. We met as we always tend to do with a quip as I was talking with the charming lady…
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Does Father Time drink whisky? He may as whisky is nearly as old as Father Time himself. The first references to the distillation of fermented grains – the whisky basics – can be found in records dating from around 2000 BC. Between 500 and 1000 AD, knowledge of distillation spread to Europe where Christians used it for medicines and in religious ceremonies. Around 1100 AD, travelling monks from Europe settled in Scotland had discovered how to ferment grain mash, resulting in the first distillations of what we call whisky. By 1494, whisky had become established in Scotland. Mass consumption was…