Homemade sourdough was so on trend for 2020. With the start of Fashion Revolution Week on 19 April, how about switching to weaving our own linen for 2021? It’s what our ancestors used to do. First...
When I'm next in Paris, I want to have a coffee and a maple syrup Clamatarte at Tapisserie, in the 11th district, home to the little culinary empire of Betrand Grébaut and Théo Pourriat. I say...
Christmas is about creating light amid the winter darkness. It’s about slowing down, slowing right down, until you start to feel – an experience that can be joyous, painful, or both. At the start of the...
When things go shaky, I seek the comfort of order and structure; and where better to find this than in clean, green Zurich. This largest of Swiss cities straddles two rivers – the Limmat and the...
In 2015, I spent ten days in Japan discovering the local tea culture, and I remember every moment vividly. But ask me what I did yesterday, as we huddle in our homes from the...
It was three summers ago that I was sitting one evening around a table in Koko Doko in Reims, the champagne capital of France, with Clos Driver Wine Tours, grower champagne producer Emmanuel...
Now that travel has come to a halt – even to the end of the road, I am working on recalibrating my life. A while back, I spent five days on a retreat in the...
The exhibition at London’s Barbican Centre, Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, which opened this spring (2020), is a subject that touches all of us, whatever our gender identity. UPDATE: The exhibition closed because of the pandemic, and...
It's been a year since I bought my first limited-edition art photography print – ‘Camelia’ by Andrea Torres Balaguer, which is now in my sitting room, above my desk. It was the last...