The Film: The Dish: The Reason: A buckle is a sweet taste of the south, which is what you’ll need after joining Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejioforn) in his twelve years in hell. Here you’ll find blackberries, with their tricklings of juice contributing both a twinkling acidity- and potentially a source of ink to send […]
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The Film: The Dish: The Reason: Don’t let go- either of your partner, when you’re drifting untethered in the boundless expanses of space – or this dessert. One has deadly consequences, the other will be just disappointing. These orbs of poached meringue (ile flottante in French- or floating islands) seemingly defy gravity, suspended upon a […]
Even the best of intentions can end up busted. First- thank you to so many of you who wrote such lovely emails to me after last week’s sleep deprived brushes with the outer perimeter of sanity. In this month of madness we’ve absently poured wine into our empty pasta bowl instead of glasses, […]
This is about taking things to the limit. It’s something I’m familiar with. I’m not just talking about The Eagles’ song, which is perhaps, the world’s best tune to belt out while driving through country roads on your own. It’s about getting to the edge and realising with a pricklish snap that you probably need […]
There’s such sweetness in the spectre of a proper British summer. And it’s one that I’m very sorry to have missed. These double decker buses and Beefeaters are about as close as I’m getting to London right now. When it comes to the warmer months I have been blousily spoiled by scorching specimens of my […]