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Breakfast
Hot and Cold Lunches
Afternoon Tea
Traditional Cakes & Scones made on the premises
Loose leaf teas - Artisan coffees
Private dining available for celebrations or business
Open 7 days a week
Monday 10 00 am
Tuesday - Sunday 8.30 am
Café Clare
1 Well Lane, Clare, Suffolk, CO10 8NH
Tel: 01787 278148
www.cafe-clare.co.uk
Opening hours:
Mon-Sat 9-5pm Closed Sundays
Fresh Bread for Sale Daily
Cafe open for breakfast, lunch and snacks
Afternoon tea and
home-made Cakes available
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1 High Street, Clare, Suffolk
01787 278932
Focus Summer 2017
Mashed potato may be the perfect food
to serve with coffee, a Cambridge
University scientist has found.
Physicist Sebastian Ahnert’s research
examined unusual food groupings.
He suggested that in Western cuisine,
foodstuffs which go well together typically share the same
aroma molecules, known as olfactory compounds.
This explains why well-known pairings work, as similar flavours
compliment and deepen each other.
“In the early days I saw that coffee and potato shared a lot of
compounds,” Dr Ahnert told an Oxford University food science
conference. “I made mashed potato with milky coffee…and it
was horrible. I felt slightly vindicated years later when I went to
Paris to a Michelin-starred restaurant and had a desert which
was coffee and potato. It was delicious. Execution matters.”
Dr Ahnert suggested a number of other unusual combinations
which could be tried by would-be gastronauts at home.
Roast beef and chocolate, pork and vanilla sauce and mussels
and strawberries all share the same olfactory compounds and
so – according to Dr Ahnert’s theory – could be paired togeth-
er, if prepared well.
However, the theory does not apply to East Asian cuisine,
which is characterised by opposing flavours playing off each
other, such as sweet and sour.
Coffee and Potato! perfect