Hugh Laurie once wrote of his teenage self: “I somehow contrived to pull off the gruesome trick of being both fat and thin at the same time”. This summer has managed to be similarly perverse, being first disgustingly hot then offensively cold and wet. Why do we British even pretend ... Read More...
Food
Jonathan Meades - once described by Marco Pierre-White as 'the best amateur chef in the world' - is currently raising funds on Unbound for a new cookbook – or perhaps an anti-cookbook. Called The Plagiarist in the Kitchen, it will contain 125 recipes and also be a paean to the importance of avoiding ... Read More...
Jonathan Meades - once described by Marco Pierre-White as 'the best amateur chef in the world' - is currently raising funds on Unbound for a new cookbook – or perhaps an anti-cookbook. Called The Plagiarist in the Kitchen, it will contain 125 recipes and also be a paean to the importance of avoiding ... 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...
This coming Monday is Michaelmas, so you've still got time to get yourself a goose. Just make sure you don't pick any blackberries afterwards. Professor Nick Groom explains.... September 29 is Michaelmas: the Feast of Michael and All Angels. It was also one of the four quarter days of the English business ... 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...
In which Luke Honey of The Greasy Spoon revisits a West London institution redolent of the swinging sixties... Hands up who remembers The Gasworks? Twenty odd years ago, I started my glamorous career in the so-called Art World - as a porter at a well-known auctioneers to be found in the ... Read More...
One of those very divisive bits of folklore gleaned from the wonderful world of Wikipedia for today's Wikiworm - which side are you on? The five-second rule is a widely repeated belief that food dropped on the ground will not be significantly contaminated with bacteria if it is picked up within five seconds of being ... Read More...
For your pleasure, here is Jassy's account of her recent foodie tour of Venice: bridges and sighs, bigoli and cicchetti, echoing mazes and marriage proposals from fishmongers... A city of bridges and sighs, Venice is also home to the note. Taped to walls and windows, and written in underlined, over exclamation ... Read More...
Warning: this recipe contains Father Brown spoilers... One of the best things I watched this year (and it will remain one of the best things I watch all year) was The Daughters of Jerusalem, one of the Father Brown mysteries brought to life in non-specific period glory by the BBC. I’m ... Read More...