The film: The dish: The reason: Def: Zero Dark Thirty: Military terminology referring to 30 minutes past 12, or a time when it’s just darn dark outside. One might think these falafels are the perfect match for Kathryn Bigelow’s mysteriously titled filmic hunt for Osama because it takes exactly twelve and a half minutes to […]
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The film: The dish: The reason: Despite their advancing years George and Anne Laurent still have a fantasy Parisian apartment, a shared flirtatious twinkle and a love of Schubert. Their final movement begins over an egg at breakfast. A shell is broken and soon so is the smooth veneer of their marriage, as Anne slips […]
What follows is a recipe that is both high achieving and remarkably low maintenance. The high achieving bit? Well, it might be about the multiple ways the life affirming spritz of lemon finds its way into this ever-so-simple bowl of carbs. For one, the whole fist-sized fruit (minus half its zest) takes a bath in […]
There are times when yellow lentils and split peas beckon from the cupboard. ‘Remember me?’ they whisper from somewhere below a top shelf heaving with herbal teas. Remember thrift? Now is that time. In between the roast ducks, payment for postage to the other side of the world, ornaments, cocktails and frocks, there are […]
There are some things afoot in our new home in the cheaper part of the ‘hood. London is a chequerboard. Step one block south, east, or west and it can very quickly become a different city. The trees loom taller, the shadows are longer. And the highjinks can be much more pronounced. At 10.24 pm […]