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Being a fan of the try-before-you-buy attitude to food shopping, it really irks me that some shopkeepers get narky when you ask to try a piece of cheese or an olive before you commit yourself. To me it's like expecting you to buy a pair of jeans without trying them on.

So, I'm all for events like Taste East - a free festival in Spitalfields which kicks off tomorrow and is an open invitation to sample away to your heart's content. With over forty food and drink stalls there's quite a spread, so start early as you feast on delectable pastries and cakes from Nutmeg Frog with a sip of something reviving from Teasmith, make your way to the Jewish Deli for a salt beef sandwich, and then nibble on Sardinian cheeses and cured meats from Villanova, washed down with a shot of Vietnamese coffee.

Far from East London, yet equally appetising, are the new olive oil tastings at smart Mayfair Italian restaurant Alloro, which teach you how to tell your delicate Ligurian from your more robust Tuscan - hmmm, brings to mind the time Giorgio Locatelli taught me how to taste olive oil by warming it in the palm of my hand first.

Like any good tasting student, I lapped it up.

Taste East Food Festival - March 7-8
This is part of the ongoing six-day East Festival. For a full programme visit findeast.co.uk

Alloro
19-20 Dover Street, W1S 4LU - 020 7495 4768

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Soho proprietors If Music lay down the beats tonight. The Big Chill House. 8pm-12am. 257 Pentonville Road, N1. Free admission.

Ever-changing, London gets the analysis treatment with Somerset House. 10am-6pm The Strand, WC2. Free.

London Concertante throw a stunning show of their new Gypsy Strings. St. Martin in the Fields, WC2. 7:30pm. £6-20. 020 7839 8362.

Behold! The future of art in the UK. Bloomberg SPACE. 11am-6pm. 50 Finsbury Sq, EC2. Free.

Casper & Skull Juice unleash their Blogger's Delight upon the T Bar. 8pm-1:30am. 56 Shoreditch High St, E1. Free.

Fresh from 'Out There', the infamous Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art has arrived at the Barbican. 9am-8pm. Silk Street, EC2. £8.

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