Misti Traya pays tribute to some of America's finest wits - or alternatively, as Dorothy Parker once said, just 'a bunch of loudmouths showing off'... In 1919, a group of writers lunched at the Algonquin Hotel on West 44th Street in Manhattan. The purpose of their gathering was to roast their friend, ... Read More...
Misti Traya enjoys a conversation with the doyenne of food writers... Clarissa Dickson Wright once likened taking a call from Elizabeth David to “answering the phone to God.” Prue Leith, who won David’s kitchen table at auction, also compared her to the celestial. “I used to take her en primeur vegetables. ... Read More...
When she was a teenager Misti Traya travelled from America to spend three months working in an orphanage in Romania. This is what happened to her... When I was 15, I went on a mission of mercy. My mission was this: Dear God, please let the Ivies have mercy on my ... Read More...
Misti Traya, American expat living in London, falls in love with Paddington and decides to have a go at making marmalade... Just before Christmas, I took my three year-old to the cinema for the first time. We saw Paddington and were equally charmed. It was funny and darling and the calypso band that played throughout ... Read More...
A tasty, trashy treat for you today as American expat Misti Traya goes back to her country roots to show us how to make a lemon ice box pie. Misti's post recently won the 2014 Young British Foodies award for food writing... It’s no secret some of my family can be ... Read More...