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Shepherd’s Pie
A family recipe in a time of grief. Continue Reading Shepherd’s Pie
The Herrera-Harfuch Art Collection
On the synaesthesia of aroma and art in the Herrera-Harfuch collection. Continue Reading The Herrera-Harfuch Art Collection
For the Love of Leftovers
This blog series has been about my discovery of UK culture, but this particular article is inspired by a recent trip home to the States – a trip that showed ...
Until 9 Sep: Afternoon Tea & Cocktails Inspired by The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Aslan apple and almond slice, Fluffy Lucy lemon tart, Peter and the Professor peach tiramisu, white raspberry witches hat, Brownie wardrobe to Narnia… If you were mesmerised by C. S. Lewis’ ...
Reading Donna Tartt’s The Secret History with The Novel Diner Supperclub
It was the enigmatic murmur of a “Bacchanal Brew” on the menu that first intrigued me. A three-course meal based on Donna Tartt’s hugely successful 1992 ...
Eating Blind at Dans Le Noir
Can eating the dark be more poetical than dining by candlelight? Still arousing people’s curiosity today, Dans le noir (French for in the dark) is a truly unique dining and ...
Craig Pay – Quarter Cherry Lips
“Quarter cherry lips,” the shopkeeper says. “Fifty-seven pence.” Henry looks at the tall jar of sweets. Then he looks at the pile of sweets in the scales on the counter ...
How to Make a Black Hole
Steven Appleby’s work has appeared in newspapers, on television, on Radio 4, on stage at the ICA and in over 20 books. The Coffee Table Book of Doom, published in ...
I Think We Eat Wrong
I think we eat wrong. I don’t just mean the actual food, which is often bad enough – destroying our world, local culture, local industry – heck, even our own ...
Fay Franklin – Hunger
I don’t feel responsible for what happened. Yes, I was young and eager, and ambitious, and may not have thought things through sufficiently but, in the end, he brought it ...
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Litro #112: Food
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Litro #112: Food – Editor’s Letter
Food! Glorious food … we just can’t get enough of it, especially at Christmas time – on our plates, in our dreams, and especially in our books. Every December the ...
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Extract from Comfort and Joy by India Knight
It's December 23rd, and Carla and husband Sam are hosting a pre-Christmas dinner party. Guests include Sam's mother Pat, silver fox Jake and his much younger girlfriend Tamsin, man-hungry but ...
Digital Subscriptions, Fiction, Litro #112: Food
Laura Solomon – Lady Bluebeard
Here he comes, my seventh honey. The others hang on hooks in one of my many spare rooms. The room is awash with blood. He looks so fine, with his ...
Digital Subscriptions, Fiction, Litro #112: Food
S. J. Butler – The Flotsam Café
She came to the sea because she had nowhere else to go. She packed one bag and walked out of the door and she just kept on going. She bought ...
Digital Subscriptions, Fiction, Litro #112: Food
N. S. R. Khan – Muslims eat Meat
The rule had always been "Eat first, complain later". Eileen's cooking was like good intentions that paved the way to Hell's Kitchen. Her kitchen. She was a diabolical cook. Not ...
Stuart Snelson – Tasteless
In retrospect, he was surprised that it had taken her so long to leave, that she hadn’t packed the car with bare essentials, scuttled the children into the back seat ...
Digital Subscriptions, Fiction, Litro #112: Food
K. L. Gillespie – Dinner Date
His clothes scream good catch and he isn't wearing a wedding ring. Heather smiles to herself as she opens a book from her bag that she has no intention of ...
Digital Subscriptions, Fiction, Litro #112: Food
Kevlin Henney – Schrödinger’s Pizza
"I don't like your thinking. It's unnecessary, not to mention cruel and unusual. There's nothing reasonable about putting a cat in a box with a vial of poison and a ...
Digital Subscriptions, Litro #112: Food, Past Events
Listings: Dec 2011
December is a month of celebration. There are feasts and festivities wherever you turn, and our December issue is all about giving in to the temptation of food. In December’s ...