Category: Food & Drink

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    Life lessons from William Gilchrist

    Meet William Gilchrist. If you are not currently familiar with him and his body of work, I suggest becoming familiar as quickly as possible. I am a people person. Other people interest me; I like finding out about them, what they do, what they like, where they’ve been. But every now and then I find…

  • This summer you need Vermouth Hour

    The sun is out and pretty soon lots of people will be heading for a couple of drinks in the sun with friends. But I have a tip for you this year: put down the beer and rose, there is something new on the horizon. I have written about the fact that vermouth is the…

  • How to do airport breakfast

    In the Robert Rodriguez film Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Johnny Depp’s unhinged CIA agent kills a cook at a Mexican restaurant because his cochinita pibil is “too good”. According to Depp’s character, Sheldon Sands, he eats the same thing at every restaurant he goes to. His rationale for killing the cook, it turns…

  • Vegan slutty brownies

    I have been a fan of Slutty Brownies for a long time. For the uninitiated, these are simply the best brownies ever created in the history of the world. They are a joy which I first discovered courtesy of the wonderful Rosie and her blog The Londoner. If you haven’t checked her out before I…

  • Country Living don’t do weekends, but if they did…

    Spring is trying to, well, spring. The snow, which plunged us into a deep freeze last week, shifted as the weekend hit and that meant that S and I could indulge in a countryside day out we have been planning for a while. We woke up surrounded by fields, with cool sunshine overhead and barely…

  • Harry Potter has given us a style icon

    I think I’ve stumbled across a new style icon without really realising it. The silver screen has offered us a fair few sartorial leaders over the years. Names that spring to mind include Steve McQueen in The Thomas Crown Affair – and everything else, Anne Hathaway’s Andy Sachs in The Devil Wears Prada, Audrey Hepburn…

  • Groom it like Beckham

    “For me, grooming is not about how you look, but how you feel.” This is how David Beckham has introduced his new skincare range. After many years atop the style lists, Beckham has decided to put his face at the forefront of his own skincare and grooming brand – House 99. Celebrities on skincare and…

  • Happy anniversary Davidoff

    A note crossed my desk today which rather caught my eye. Davidoff Cigars is turning 50 this year. I recently sat down with the folks at Davidoff to talk about what is new – for the most part it was their superb Winston Churchill range. Inspired by the great man himself and the early hours…

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    End of year awards

    As 2017 nears its end it is time to pick out a few folks who have set an example we can follow for the year ahead. So here are the 2017 iCons of the Year. React like the producers of All The Money In the World Weeks before the release of All The Money In…

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    Coming to the stage…just!

    I am, as I think I’ve mentioned, quite comfortable on stage. I’ve blogged in the past about doing amateur theatre in my spare time and “shrinking violet” is not an epithet which has ever been attached to me. But this was a bit different. Every year the great and the good of the travel retail…