Travel tips-Restaurant reviews-Recipes
It’s a first for me to review a book I’ve worked on professionally as an editor. However, copy-editing Lady Glenconner’s Picnic Papers was such a delight, I couldn’t resist sharing it with you – especially as there is, of course, a lot about food in this book. A book about picnics has to include food: […]
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We were running out of chutney. The Green Tomato Chutney I made in September was almost gone. Although I shared Katie Stewart’s advice to wait a month before eating the chutney to allow it to mature, the family barely managed a week. Grandsons Freddie (9) and Ben (6), who’d initially been sceptical that anything made […]
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I’m just back from visiting my daughter for a couple of days. She lives in Worcestershire, about a 20-minute drive from the county’s capital, Worcester. We’ve never been into the city itself much in the years she’s lived there, but now 6-year-old grandson Rufus attends one of the Pauline Quirke Academies for a drama class […]
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It had been a long time. I could hardly believe when I checked the date of my first visit to The Palomar on the blog that it had been in December 2014. I went a second time a couple of years later with friends and have always meant to go back. But it didn’t seem […]
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It’s not been a great summer here in London and already, although autumn doesn’t officially begin until the 22nd, autumnal weather has arrived; conkers fall to the ground from the huge horse chestnut trees on Twickenham Green, and the days are closing in. There’s been a lot of rain and cool temperatures all through ‘summer’. […]
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I love to take the two eldest grandsons, Freddie (9) and Ben (6), out for a treat in the holidays – they’re such good company and it’s so much fun to spend time with them. Today we headed into London in the morning for some art again (see last trip) and then lunch. It’s slightly […]
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This dish always reminds me of Rome. I first had it in Rome in 2000 when I spent a month at a language school there and stayed in a flat owned by some friends. I had a favourite restaurant near the flat and the first time I had this dish, the fish was rombo – […]
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Finally, I made it. Getting to eat at Trullo has literally been years in the making due to a couple of abortive attempts before. But when my lovely Italian friend Lucia and I were deciding where to meet up, she travelling from north London, me from south-west, Trullo seemed like a perfect option. So, a […]
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I had a bit of a gap between jobs – my publishing work – so I decided to take advantage of having some free time to head into London and go to an art gallery. One of my favourite things to do! There are a few things on at the moment I’d like to see, […]
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Grub Street Publishing kindly offered to send me another of their newly published cookery books to review and when I was told it was a reprint of a classic book about Middle Eastern cookery I was delighted and didn’t hesitate to say, Yes please! I’ve always loved the food of the Middle East region, which […]
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