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Travel | Liverpool

Eat Chorley cake, a distinctive
Lancashire pastry similar to
an Eccles cake. Less sweet
than its more famous cousin –
in a proper version there is no
sugar in the filling – the Chorley
cake is a flat shortcrust pastry
typically filled with currants and
sultanas. It is often eaten with
a bit of butter or a chunk of
Lancashire cheese. The cake
namechecks the town of Chorley
in south Lancashire, located
47km northeast of Liverpool.
Cicipi kue Chorley khas
Lancashire yang mirip dengan
kue Eccles. Tidak semanis
sepupunya yang lebih populer,
kue Chorley adalah sejenis
adonan pai yang diisi dengan
kismis hitam dan kuning.
Chorley biasa dimakan dengan
sedikit mentega atau sepotong
keju Lancashire. Kue ini
dinamakan sama seperti Kota
Chorley di Lancashire selatan,
47 kilometer sebelah timur
laut Liverpool.

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5 Senses – Taste
CHORLEY CAKE

The War Memorial in the foreground;
behind it, the Cunard Building, one of
Liverpool’s Three Graces.
Liverpool has many historic
museums, in fact, more than any other
English city outside London.

the Second World War. Housed in the same
building, the International Slavery Museum is
a genre-bending institution investigating the
history and legacy of the Atlantic slave trade.
It extends its purview to contemporary forms of
slavery. The Walker Art Gallery is a leading art
gallery for northern England, with artwork from
the 13th century up to today on hand. Also fantastic
is the Museum of Liverpool, opened in 2011,
which provides a wide-ranging history of the city.
The Georgian Quarter is a neighbourhood filled to
the brim with gorgeous buildings from that period.
Centred on Huskisson Street, the area is prim and
inviting. Liverpool has more Georgian buildings
than any other city in the UK, barring London.
Liverpool has also witnessed a cultural turn,
a flowering of creative energies indebted in part
to the establishment of the Liverpool Biennial at
the turn of the millennium and the city’s stint as
the European Capital of Culture in 2008. These
interventions have been launching points for the
rediscovery of neglected corners of the city.
For example, the 2012 Biennial repurposed
underutilised buildings as gallery spaces, including
an abandoned mail sorting office and several
rooms in the historic Cunard Building.

Liverpool continues to change with the times.
A clutch of great venues has made the city feel
more dynamic and contemporary. Restaurant and
cocktail den Maray (www.maray.co.uk), which
opened last year, taps into Parisian hipster energies.
It serves a Middle Eastern menu and fantastic
cocktails and mocktails. Not five minutes away
by foot is Santa Chupitos (www.santachupitos.com),
a Mexican bar with an inventive cocktail list.
The folks at Santa Chupitos are true cocktail nerds,
offering up seasonal and creative ingredients like
duck-infused bourbon, bubblegum syrup and
flamed marshmallows in their drinks.
Perhaps most inviting are the less obviously
contemporary venues, retro enough to be
interesting to outsiders on cultural grounds.
A case in point is Peter Kavanagh’s, where log
fires roar and a copper-top bar and two ‘snugs’
complete the old-fashioned picture. What is
a snug, you ask. It’s a private room with access
to the main bar for patrons who do not wish to
be seen having a tipple. Once commonplace,
snugs are now increasingly rare in England.
Liverpool is embracing its cultural turn with
great museums, cool bars and an antiquated
‘snug’ or two. There’s no pretension in sight.
How refreshing this northern city is!