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, […]

I have been a weak, stupidly pathetic old woman this year during Ramadhan, didn’t even try to fast in the first fortnight because the summer daylight […]

Here goes then, treading tentatively into my first blog. About eating and surviving in this odd household and unpredictable country. What an adventure is this marriage between […]

So she’s flown away, our daughter, gone to uni and the best years sof her life. So, what do we eat now? How do I cook […]