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On the air: white wobbly stuff

By On Tuesday, 4 October 2016

I was thrilled to have been asked down to the Gold 905 studio to talk bilingual cookbooks (yes, you guessed it, mine!) as well as chat about my top five places to makan… Read More

Brit Stuff

British Idyll: The Wild Rabbit, Kingham

By On Saturday, 18 July 2015

Daylesford Organic has become an institution, first starting life as a farm shop in the sleepy Costwold village of Kingham before expanding well beyond the confines of London – to as far a… Read More

Food & Drink

Going local in Niseko

By On Thursday, 30 April 2015

We have just got back from a trip to Japan with some friends, one of whom is Japanese. It was a massive treat to see the country with someone who was born there and… Read More

Food & Drink

Far East Plaza…for sushi worth queuing for

By On Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Doesn’t sound very likely does it? My Japanese friend NH got me on to this and he’s not usually wrong about sushi joints. In fact, it was him that booked me into… Read More

Art

Food for Thought

By On Wednesday, 3 December 2014

I love this little café; this independent that bravely stands its ground, surrounded by an ever increasing sea of shiny, glass high-rises and coffee shop chains. I also love the building but… Read More

Art

Dim sum and then some

By On Saturday, 29 November 2014

This week has passed in a blur of food and fashion. Not that I am complaining. It is, sadly though, worth noting that if you eat to much food, the fashion bit… Read More

Day Trips

My Bali Black Book

By On Sunday, 23 November 2014

There are so many shops here in ever-expanding Seminyak that it’s slightly mind boggling.  Most sell over priced beach dresses; best accessorised by a compulsory tan and bed-head bleached blonde tresses (I can… Read More