Eric Pickles is a Dickens’ character- the apt name, deportment, disposition, unctuous, phony Christianity. He is fighting a High Court ruling against prayers before council meetings […]

One of the splendid ideas we stole from Brits was fish pie. Great stuff- mashed potatoes will killing amounts of butter and full cream milk and […]

This is very exciting. For New Years Day I invented this completely brilliant recipe- it is mine guys, I made it up, all in my head […]

I am a print journalist and proud to be one, most of the time. But, as the Leveson Inquiry systematically dissects our industry, exposes up some […]

There’s Black Now In the Union Jack Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Mo Farah did it! Actually did much more than he knows. Cheers reverberated to the heavens as […]

Back in Uganda, the flat I lived in as a child was above the marketplace- boisterous and bursting with stuff, including new and weird vegetables to […]

3 small pkts cheap peanuts 3 bunches corainder fifteen mint leaves 1 tsp jeera poweder( cumin) 2 hot green chillies salt and sugar to taste  Every […]

Had fourteen to dinner last Friday and very nice it was, though tiring. I can’t count and thought we had twelve guests and an hour before […]

Jena, my mum and her mates were in awe of English recipes- ‘so healthy’ they said, ‘made those people so strong they ruled the world’ But, […]