Try This Laurent Miquel L'Artisan Faugères, France, 2010 (£7.99, or £6.99 when you buy two bottles, Majestic) A consistently good producer whose wines from the Languedoc, such as this succulent, savoury blend of syrah and grenache, are good alternatives to the more fashionable Rhône.
The velvety Ethiopian chicken stew - doro wat - is a savoury blend of meat in an aromatic sauce, and other intriguing choices are the Nigerian shrimp and-bean fritters, akara, the silken barley tabbouleh and several types of meat and tuna tartars.
50ml Vodka 80ml fresh-pressed savoury juice blend (tomato, carrot, beetroot) 10ml lemon juice 'Mortar-and-pestled' spice mix (white pepper, anise, cloves, sea salt) Garnished ornately with aromatic and edible herbs.
Savoury chicken blends far more harmoniously into the background.
Peanuts set the standard for a reason: oily enough to blend perfectly smoothly, and straddling sweet, savoury and rich.
The batter is perfectly seasoned and so rich with that Top Secret spice blend (somehow hot and earthy and savoury and sweet all at the same time) that I wonder whether I'll ever want to eat anything else in my life.
The hint of sugar from the sweet plantain blended perfectly with the fluffier cassava and the savoury, starchier green plantain.
If you prefer a sweeter juice, add more apple; if you like savoury flavours, add celery or a few fresh parsley leaves before blending.
The cashew and rocket dip is blended to a butter-like paste, but is really lovely and savoury.
Under £6 2010 Pasico Old Vine Monastrell Shiraz, Jumilla There's a blackcurranty fragrance to this youthful southern Spanish blend from Jumilla, which is full of opulent black fruitiness with a spicy, savoury aftertaste.
THE best sound in the world to Bill O'Hagan was the slow crescendo of sausages sizzling in a pan; the best smell, the charred skins of the same; the best sight, a glistening heaped plateful of the same, with mash; the best taste, a succulent tongue-teasing blend of minced lean pork, rolled oats, fresh eggs, sea-salt, chervil and winter savoury, generously dosed with real ale.
