Just heard that Theo Randall at InterContinental by IHG London is doing a four course regional Italian menu for £70 a head INCL 3 WINE PAIRINGS which is great value for this quality- Theo is one of the best chefs in London.

So proud of all our students on today’s “French Country Baking” masterclass 👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️ #tartetatin #🇫🇷 cake-boy.com

We're celebrating International Women's Day a little late this year. Our very special guest is @Asma_KhanLDN who will share her intimate connections with food in conversation with Julia Platt Leonard. The link for FREE tickets is bit.ly/41pMnH - see details below

Dear friends, I’ve been asked by 15 restrnts catering for Eurovision in Liverpool to come up with an iconic 🇺🇦pudding that they can make. I was thinking syrnyk - Ukrainian cheesecake. Here is my mum’s version with caramelised apples. What do you think? Suggestions welcome!RT pls

Incredibly excited to be inconveratio with the wonderful @Asma_KhanLDN .

⭐️Desert Island Dishes ⭐️ Unmissable chance to hear the remarkable ⁦@Asma_KhanLDN⁩ in conversation with ⁦⁦Julia Platt Leonard⁩ on Tues 14th March, 5pm. Free online event brought to you by ⁦Les Dames London⁩ . Info and booking below 👇 eventbrite.co.uk/e/desert-islan…

What are you doing at 5pm tomorrow? How about joining our webinar with the ever-inspiring @Asma_KhanLDN talking to Julia Platt Leonard about her favourite dishes? Sign up for the live-streaming event and you can send her a question 🤔 Register by 16:30- bit.ly/41fpMnH

Morning you lovely lot. Are you free FRI 31 MARCH? Here’s the menu for my first supper club in yonks. Do come! It’s at a gorgeous cafe - Rise and Flour - in Milton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire. Info and booking here: tinyurl.com/2vzucv3v

a little something we baked last weekend ❤️….. #CakeBoyldn Cameron Lamb

Best friend in life arriving for a few days tomorrow, so I went a bit wild in the market... If you want to see what I'll do with some of it, I'll write about it in my (free) newsletter tomorrow. Would 💛 if you wanted to subscribe. deborarobertson.substack.com

In my newsletter today, what I'm serving for Easter - you might like it too - Marmite lamb and Durham salad. Today's newsletter's free and I'd love it if you signed up. Recipes and stories (mostly) from the South of France and all that. deborarobertson.substack.com/p/what-im-serv…

I spoke to Jenny Linford about eating, cooking with and generally loving French cheese - along with some other lovely people. 🇨🇵🧀🇨🇵🧀🇨🇵

In celebration of the great news that Gertrude Jekyll's home and garden have been purchased by the National Trust, here is a post written this time last year about Ellen Willmott's relationship with Munstead Wood. misswillmottsghosts.com/2022/07/01/mun…

Polymath, funny, acerbic. Food writer, food experimenter, novelist, playwright, painter, relisher of life’s oddities. Saw the world through his own eyes. THE HERETIC’S FEAST:a history of vegetarianism, hasn’t been bettered. RIP Colin Spencer.

After more than 800 years the final days of SMITHFIELD MARKET are upon us and ORLANDO GILI has made this magnificent series of portraits of the last generation of butchers to work there. spitalfieldslife.com/2023/07/23/the…

Egg and chillis, Marlena Spieler once wrote (in her ground-breaking 1985 book HOT AND SPICY), were 'the only perfect flavour combination I know'. But her recipes also celebrated the joys of countless other ingredients, including artichokes, as this early photograph shows.

Ottolenghi has observed that when he moved to the UK in the 1990s, making hummus was seen as "exoticism”. But Marlena Spieler was already publishing recipes for hummus, zhoug, shakshuka and more in the 80s & 90s. theguardian.com/books/2023/aug…

Excellent obituary by Bee Wilson Captured her perfectly. Hot & Spicy was my favourite book of hers. I still have my very thumbed and tatty copy. Marlena Spieler obituary theguardian.com/books/2023/aug…

A young 18 year old woman, Rianna, in a jail cell was forced to give birth alone screaming for help that never came. She bit through her own umbilical cord and the baby died. In England. And it isn’t every single headline. And we aren’t in the streets. amp.theguardian.com/society/2023/a…

It was such an honour & joy to write the foreword to the new edition of THE RICE BOOK by Sri Owen. If you are scared of cooking rice, this book will set you free. If you love cooking rice, it will give you even more ways to love it. Not just recipes, also culture, lore, history.