Review: Affogato Bar
Fenwicks have a sneaky and rather brilliant tactic to keep you shopping. Between rails of clothes, islands of products and shelves of pretty things, there are discreet but...
All the buzz
One in three mouthfuls of the food we eat is dependent on pollination at a time when a crisis is threatening the world’s honeybees.’ This frightening statement from the...
The best Rosé
When I first started writing for The Lady, I promised I wouldn’t do an ‘It’s May, it must be time for rosé’ column. Well I’m afraid that I’m going to have to break my...
Review: Ametsa
Walking into Ametsa With Arzak Instruction, the first thing I noticed was that the floor is slightly off-kilter. Having yet to be handed my champagne aperitif, I was...
Sweet & easy
Jam – prosaically, a mixture of fruit and sugar boiled together, poured into jars and sealed – is a relatively modern invention. Although the ancient world knew all about...
How to be AN ETHICUREAN
The Ethicurean restaurant operates from an original glasshouse built in 1901 as part of the Somerset estate in the Mendip Hills belonging to Henry Herbert Mills of the...
inspired by childhood
Food writer and chef Valentina Harris can trace her family back to the 15th century, so a collection of their stories, intimately connected to food, makes for a fascinating...
Ready, steady, bake!
This weekend, it’s World Baking Day. But when, over the last couple of years, hasn’t it been baking day, you might legitimately ask. It’s like the jokers who thought up...
drinking with my father
Much to my father’s disappointment, I have never shared his interests. He was a schoolboy prodigy at sport, whereas I was puny, lazy and hopelessly uncoordinated. To this...
Champagne
Nobody does the hospitality thing as well as the Champenois. They took a sour, unpredictable wine from Northern France and conquered the world not only by creating a...
Wines from Morrisons
It was on a recent visit to a supermarket in Los Angeles that I got some idea of how most customers feel when confronted with a wall of wine. Almost everything was from...
Picnic Perfect
In celebration of National Picnic Week (17-23 June) creator of Higgidy Camilla Stevens has created these great recipes which are picnic perfect!for more recipes check out...
Tea not out
There are few things more quintessentially British than afternoon tea. Dainty sandwiches, delicious cakes and scones still warm from the oven typify a British summer. And...
Review: Kimchee To Go
Kimchee, the hugely popular Korean eatery in Holborn, is extending its influence with two new take-out establishments. One is on New Oxford Street, and the other sits...
World changing dishes
'Nothing more beautifully conveys our interdependence than the food we eat,' writes Meryl Streep in her foreword for new book Share: The Women for Women Cookbook. 'Food...
An Italian job
Rigatoni Carbonara Serves 4 Ingredients 30g Butter 120g diced Pancetta 350g Rigatoni 3 eggs beaten 50g Grana Padano 50g Pecorino cheese Salt & Pepper Method 1. Melt...
End of the dining table?
The dining table could become a relic of the past as nearly a third of Brits now confess to eating there only a few times a year. Research commissioned by shopping site...
Review: Gillray's
Gillray’s claims to be home to London’s best steak. With the likes of Hawksmoor, Goodman’s and Gaucho catering to the masses just over the river, this is a bold statement....
Review: Gaucho
A vegetarian walks into an Argentine steakhouse on the day of Baroness Thatcher’s funeral. There has to be a joke in it. I am the vegetarian, and the steakhouse is the...
DO TRY THIS AT HOME
Brothers James and Thom Elliot decided to give up their 'proper' jobs to follow a dream. Excited by the burgeoning street food movement in London, they travelled 4,000km...
Daily tip from the lady archive
“HEAVEN forbid that we should go back to the days when beauty was under suspicion and plain girls were assumed to have angelic natures.”
The Lady. With Prejudice. 28th April 1938
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