I’ve never really got why it’s called Good Friday – I mean, what’s good about being crucified? The only good part I could salvage from the whole sorry business was...
You know you’ll always be an Amsterdammer when you’re sitting on the train back from Schiphol and you start to see the familiar sights of the Westerpark, the Haarlemmerplein, the...
Given that I’m in the process of publishing a cookbook about lunches you can make in your office in order to avoid the dearth of decent lunch spots available for...
One of those weird “talents” (if you can call it a talent) that no one really knows I have is the under-appreciated art of napkin folding. My parents and I...
A few weeks ago, my chef friend Fong (the brains and the master stock behind Bao Project) invited me to a dinner. Since every event she’s ever invited me to...
Saturday night we felt like getting a bit poshed up. Frocks and shirts and suchlike. Cocktails and a canal view seemed only fitting… Canal House (which does what it says...
Yesterday was Me Day. MegaCorp has had me working 12-hour days lately, and I hadn’t been out for dinner in a week – a week! Clearly I was in desperate...
I have a confession to make. I don’t own any ice skates. Nor have I set bladed foot on ice (natural or otherwise) since a rather fateful first date back...
Actually I guess it’s not. I’m technically writing this on my laptop, just like I normally do. But there are two significant differences in the process I took to get...
