Christmas in the Time of Covid
For a Christmas dinner table to see off the year that wasn't, event designer Maria Castellanos sidesteps festive cliches. This year,...
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Madeleine Feeny
- Sep 28, 2020
- 4 min
Figs, Fava & Feta with Everything
A Culinary Postcard from Patmos I grew up in a Grecophile household. My father’s interest in the classics didn’t end with his graduation....
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Madeleine Feeny
- Aug 4, 2020
- 5 min
Reading the Fridge Classics: Eggs
the egg only got larger and larger, and more and more human . . . it had eyes and a nose and mouth and, when she had come close . . . she...
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Madeleine Feeny
- Aug 2, 2020
- 3 min
The Pastry Chef's Guide by Ravneet Gill
A sumptuous new baking cookbook equips Josie Graves to conquer her fear of pastry I work with cookbooks every day and this is without a...
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Madeleine Feeny
- Aug 1, 2020
- 3 min
Everything Is Under Control by Phyllis Grant
A memoir with recipes, for Readers of Ella Risbridger, Nora Ephron and M.F.K. Fisher Prufrock measured life in coffee spoons; Phyllis...
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Madeleine Feeny
- Jun 19, 2020
- 4 min
Reading the Fridge Classics: Tomatoes
Both basic and luxury, tomatoes are a universal staple: the base note in dishes from pasta sauce to curry. Their quality varies wildly,...
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Madeleine Feeny
- Jun 5, 2020
- 4 min
Eating in a Crisis: How to Cook A Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher
‘You can still live with grace and wisdom .... to keep the wolf from snuffling too hungrily through the keyhole' M. F. K. Fisher knew how...
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Madeleine Feeny
- Jun 3, 2020
- 3 min
Reading the Fridge Classics: Aubergine
One vegetable, multiple names and connotations – the most risqué of which can be credited to smartphones. Yes, to anyone fluent in emoji,...
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Madeleine Feeny
- May 29, 2020
- 2 min
Braised Pork with An Yu: A Virtual Literary Supperclub
'She imagined tulips ... The thousands of buds bloomed into white flowers, and one by one, the gradual opening up of each flower lulled...
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Madeleine Feeny
- May 28, 2020
- 3 min
Reading the Fridge Classics: Smoked Salmon
Bit of a posh one – or so it would have you believe, although smoked salmon isn’t nearly as expensive as it used to be, before salmon...
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Madeleine Feeny
- May 22, 2020
- 3 min
Reading the Fridge Classics: Feta
Guaranteed to improve almost any meal, feta rescues salads from penitential joylessness, makes roasted vegetables sexy, and is a great...
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Madeleine Feeny
- May 14, 2020
- 5 min
How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa
'I opened my mouth wide, saw the hot, wet, pink flesh, and the dark centre where my voice came out of, and I laughed, loud and wild' The...
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Madeleine Feeny
- May 4, 2020
- 3 min
Hibernation Edition: My Year of Rest and Relaxation, A Virtual Immersive Literary Supperclub
'Sleep was coming for me. I knew the sound of it by now, the foghorn of dead space that put me on autopilot while my conscious self...
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Madeleine Feeny
- Apr 23, 2020
- 2 min
¡Feliz Sant Jordi!
I wish Britain could adopt Catalunya’s joyful celebration of love and literature Every April 23rd, the streets of Barcelona fill with...
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Madeleine Feeny
- Apr 23, 2020
- 4 min
Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin, tr. Aneesa Abbas Higgins
‘He'd never understand what Sokcho was like. You had to be born here, live through the winters. The smells, the octopus. The isolation’...
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Madeleine Feeny
- Apr 17, 2020
- 4 min
Topics of Conversation by Miranda Popkey
‘conversation is flirtation. Tease out enough rope and the listener, she’ll hang on your every word. Though it’s true: usually I am the...
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Madeleine Feeny
- Apr 9, 2020
- 2 min
Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
Steeped in millennial angst, this waspishly droll debut explores sexuality, class and language – while enjoying the double-edged rewards...
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Madeleine Feeny
- Apr 9, 2020
- 4 min
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
‘There must be a point where you’re allowed to be defined by something other than what he did to you' How does an abusive relationship...
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Madeleine Feeny
- Apr 8, 2020
- 3 min
A Stationary Feast
Notes from London Lockdown Little cause for feasting, and certainly not the moveable kind, with the world on pause. I’ve migrated to the...
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Madeleine Feeny
- Feb 10, 2020
- 2 min
The Man Who Saw Everything Supperclub
Feasting off the Abbey Road Crossing at our First Immersive Literary supperclub, inspired by Deborah Levy's Novel 'It had been Jennifer's...
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