(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 […]
I am a very proud friend right now. I was very lucky to be given an entire range-worth of shakes this week from Soak; a truly wonderful dairy-free shake company run by my friends Roxy and Emma. Since returning from Thailand last February 2014, where they’d learned to coconut milk by Mina of Mina’s Cooking Classes, they’ve […]
The Polpo story starts six years ago (to the day almost). When Russell Norman left his job at Caprice Holdings, he knew he wanted to open somewhere with a downtown Manhattan vibe. The lights would always be a little too low, the music a little too loud. But the food? That was less set in […]