On Friday I squeezed the very last drops out of my somewhat-big-enough-to-be-mentionable birthday, with a trip to Borough Market for Celia Brooks’ gastrotour. Starting at Hotel Chocolat’s Rabot 1575 (named after the company’s 250-year-old Rabot Estate cocoa plantation in Saint Lucia) we were treated to welcome coffee and a history of the market, alongside some unusual cacao butter […]
I knew you could grow chilli in the UK, first because of Wahaca’s seed packets (because if you couldn’t, why would they give them away in such abundance?!) – and then because my Mum grew some in her garden last year. However, I had NO idea of the sheer number of varieties you could get […]
(Originally posted to LinkedIn) Last week I sat on the stage at The Barbican with Sam Baker, co-founder of The Pool, a ‘platform for women who are too busy to browse’. We were there for H+K’s annual conference, D2, and more specifically – to talk about creativity in publishing. A former editor-in-chief of both Red and Cosmopolitan, Baker […]
This past weekend, I went away for the weekend to Salcombe in Devon. It’s about four hours drive from London, but it’s stunning – and well worth it. We stayed at the Salcombe Harbour hotel, which is right on the edge of the estuary looking out on the to bay. You can walk the entire […]