Founder Simon Boyle with a group of apprentices
Many of you may have heard of HONY - or ‘Humans of New York‘. Because what started out as a personal photographic project by 29-year old Brandon Stanton quickly escalated to an enormous street portraiture blog with over 1 million followers all round the world.…
Just a very quick post for a Sunday evening about using up leftovers. For anybody kind enough to have read my last couple of posts, it mightn’t be an enormous surprise to know that last week I had some leftover buttermilk and leftover aubergine pate.…
It must be funny living in a country without seasons. Take somewhere like Los Angeles. The thermometer hovers round 28°C in August, and plummets to a still-pretty-balmy 19°C in December. When Londoner’s bodies are begin to shut down mid-January with just eight hours of sunlight, those pesky Californians are basking in a full ten hours of not just sunlight, but actual sunshine. No wonder they look so good.…
A few years ago, I was at my parents’ house in Leicester when a friend - quite heroically - decided to drive down from Doncaster. After taking on the M1, she arrived mid-morning and asked if she could have some breakfast.…
Hello – I'm Rachel Walker – food writer and cook. I live in East London with my very tolerant husband, who is often alarmed to find pig trotters or brining lamb tongues floating in the fridge.