On the synaesthesia of aroma and art in the Herrera-Harfuch collection.
This blog series has been about my discovery of UK culture, but this particular article is inspired by a recent trip home to the States – a trip that showed ...
Aslan apple and almond slice, Fluffy Lucy lemon tart, Peter and the Professor peach tiramisu, white raspberry witches hat, Brownie wardrobe to Narnia… If you were mesmerised by C. S. Lewis’ ...
It was the enigmatic murmur of a “Bacchanal Brew” on the menu that first intrigued me. A three-course meal based on Donna Tartt’s hugely successful 1992 debut, The Secret History, a Greek tragedy ...
Can eating the dark be more poetical than dining by candlelight?
Still arousing people’s curiosity today, Dans le noir (French for in the dark) is a truly unique dining and sensory ...
“Quarter cherry lips,” the shopkeeper says. “Fifty-seven pence.” Henry looks at the tall jar of sweets. Then he looks at the pile of sweets in the scales on the counter ...
© Steven Appleby
Steven Appleby’s work has appeared in newspapers, on television, on Radio 4, on stage at the ICA and in over 20 books. The Coffee Table Book of Doom, ...
I think we eat wrong.
I don’t just mean the actual food, which is often bad enough – destroying our world, local culture, local industry – heck, even our own bodies.
I ...
I don’t feel responsible for what happened. Yes, I was young and eager, and ambitious, and may not have thought things through sufficiently but, in the end, he brought it ...
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In retrospect, he was surprised that it had taken her so long to leave, that she hadn’t packed the car with bare essentials, scuttled the children into the back seat ...
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Alice and her Wonderland friends are not the only ones to have thrown a Mad Hatter’s tea party…
Here are some imaginative people who have combined two of life’s great pleasures: ...