Review: Gaucho
A vegetarian walks into an Argentine steakhouse on the day of Baroness Thatcher’s funeral. There has to be a joke in it. I am the vegetarian, and the steakhouse is the...
DO TRY THIS AT HOME
Brothers James and Thom Elliot decided to give up their 'proper' jobs to follow a dream. Excited by the burgeoning street food movement in London, they travelled 4,000km...
A taste of the season
Sophie Michell has teamed up with Posh Birds, to create a selection of decadent and delicious recipes designed to accompany the very best engagements that make up the...
The best Rosé
When I first started writing for The Lady, I promised I wouldn’t do an ‘It’s May, it must be time for rosé’ column. Well I’m afraid that I’m going to have to break my...
Legendary veg
It’s the centenary of Elizabeth David’s birth this year. David is the legendary cook who introduced a nation recovering from the war and food rationing to the delights of...
Sweet treats from...
Celebrity chef Nadia Sawalha has teamed up with SPLENDA® to launch the ‘Small Steps’ campaign to show women across the UK how making smaller steps within a diet can add up...
How to be AN ETHICUREAN
The Ethicurean restaurant operates from an original glasshouse built in 1901 as part of the Somerset estate in the Mendip Hills belonging to Henry Herbert Mills of the...
Californian wines
I’m writing this column from Los Angeles where the weather is gorgeous. I’m combining a visit to the in-laws with some research on behalf of readers of The Lady. Like me,...
Alsatian wines
Alsace has always been a great favourite of the wine trade. There’s an interesting theory about how this preference originated. Until the 1980s, most wine sold in Britain...
Ready, steady, bake!
This weekend, it’s World Baking Day. But when, over the last couple of years, hasn’t it been baking day, you might legitimately ask. It’s like the jokers who thought up...
Easy suppers
Ever since winning Celebrity Masterchef in 2010, Lisa Faulker has taken the food world by storm. As well as stints are a working chef, she has written a bestselling...
Bake yourself happy
John WhaiteWhy do people bake? The novelist Marian Keyes wrote a whole book about hauling herself out of a debilitating depression through making cakes. John Whaite, winner...
Wines from Morrisons
It was on a recent visit to a supermarket in Los Angeles that I got some idea of how most customers feel when confronted with a wall of wine. Almost everything was from...
Review: Bone Daddies
With its hipster name, no-reservation policy and cool Soho location, one might be forgiven for walking past Bone Daddies thinking it’s just another of the cool crowd’s...
Review: Bunga Bunga
Bunga Bunga is a celebration of all that is amusing and melodramatic in Italian culture. Inspired by many trips to the country as well as by New York's Little Italy...
Review: Kimchee To Go
Kimchee, the hugely popular Korean eatery in Holborn, is extending its influence with two new take-out establishments. One is on New Oxford Street, and the other sits...
Lindsey Bareham's recipes
One of the things missing from television cookery programmes is the cook’s actual kitchen. The Great British Bake Off is conducted in a large tent; MasterChef whips up the...
Review: Asia de Cuba
Atmosphere is a curious thing. It the glorious sum of a million different little factors – the people, the décor, the lighting, the smells, the squishiness of your chair –...
End of the dining table?
The dining table could become a relic of the past as nearly a third of Brits now confess to eating there only a few times a year. Research commissioned by shopping site...
Lesser-known wines
Samuel Johnson once wrote: ‘When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.’ Well I must be tired of life then. I long for a bit of peace to write, to think and to...
Drinking Bordeaux
My dear late Uncle Peter used to drink a lot of Château Palmer during his glory days in the 1970s and 1980s. He told me with a sad face that when he retired he had to sell...
Daily tip from the lady archive
“THERE is great satisfaction to be had in properly ironed garments that look as if they have just come out of the shop window.”
The Lady. You Can’t Iron? 19th February, 1953
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