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Over the weekend ,Belle had a friend to sleep over. The excitement levels had been at 11 out of ten for weeks and that was nothing compared to the Big Day. Because it had been a while in the making, every tiny detail had been planned. We made slime (...

Bruno Rocca puts it this way, “Paradoxically, our goal is not to ‘make wine’ but to guide its evolution to help it best express itself. Our land, not the producer, is inscribed on the wine.” Documents show that the Rocca family were in the town of Ba...

What are your cravings telling you? I’m writing this from the sofa again ... Gotta love mobile phones for making it possible to type horizontally. Ironically I’m recovering from a week of launching Beat the Couch and all the admin involved with gett...

During a recent meeting with the special events co-ordinator of one of our fine-art galleries, I commented that she, like myself, has devoted her time to understanding unnecessary things. In her case, I refer to various coloured liquids applied to ...

Camera in hand, Meredith Andrews started on what was for her a first — a television credit. It could be argued that Moveable Feast with Fine Cooking, the show she worked on this summer, would not have been made without her. The Boston film crew was i...

Jessica Meredith popped the olive into her mouth and her mind reeled. Lisbon’s Belcanto wasn’t her first two-star Michelin experience, but it’s one she will always remember. “The olives were injected with martini juice,” she enthused. “I wasn’t expe...

Carménère is one of the oldest noble grape varieties and it used to be widely planted in Bordeaux, where it produced dark, red wines. When the root-louse phylloxera wiped out many European vineyards in the mid-1800s, carménère was not replanted and w...

I’ve been reading Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari lately, and it’s got me in a spin. Before I studied nutrition, I did a bachelor’s degree in anthropology. I loved it and use lots of the concepts to explain addictions and behaviour within the clinic an...

I’m writing this from a sofa in London; feet up, Ellen on TV, about to go exploring, then shop, then drinks and dinner. It’s pretty far from ordinary life — there’s zero routine — and it’s seriously relaxing. I have the background buzz of work in my ...

In 1975, I started working for J.E. Lightbourn and a priest by the name of Frank Henriques wrote The Signet Encyclopaedia of Wine. It was possibly the very first wine book that I purchased, and as he often quoted the Bible, it certainly prepared me...

It’s not always easy being the child of a trained chef, even if you love cooking. Liz Tee’s father Joe is always grumbling about her knife skills. “If he sees me chopping he’ll say: ‘Liz, get those fingers out of the way!’” she said. “I never cut my...

Remember how last week I mentioned that this summer will go down in history as the Summer of Slime? Well, oh my God, did I speak too soon. Let’s replace “slime” with “glitter” and we have a more accurate picture. Sounds pretty I know, but I just … no...