Category: Food & Drink

What Ho, Haggis

This is the first edition of the first book by Clarissa Dickson Wright, published in 1996 when she was thirty-nine.

Change of Address

Fasten your seat belts, we are going on a trip – to Portland, Oregon.

Breakfast

My breakfast diet has changed often over the years – from mother’s milk to muesli and so on.

Poison Ivy

The Ivy, like Langan’s Brasserie, was so hip no real people were admitted – like Mustique.

Goodbye to Berlin

Crowded bars, warm white wine, poor sight lines and uncomfy seats sum up an expensive visit to a West End theatre in the past. I used to game the system by ordering dry cider and ice for the interval.

A Place in the Rain

”Baroness Caterina de Renzis and her late husband, Baron Alessandro de Renzis Sonnino, first saw Castello Sonnino … in 1988. The estate with its 16th century villa had just been left to Alessandro by a childless uncle; in its 500 years of existence, it had been variously inhabited by Frescobaldis, Machiavellis and Strozzis, as well… Continue reading A Place in the Rain