The London of my youth has and is disappearing: Evening Standard sellers, red phone booths, black taxi drivers and milkmen. But two modern crises, Covid and climate change, could lead to the return of the traditional milkman. I interviewed two local North London milkmen: Chris Joseph, 43, from Willesden, runs mrmilkman.london: “Within two hours of lockdown…
As part of the #eatouttohelpout scheme I'm hosting an outdoor supperclub next week. The usual £40 for a 3 course meal is now £30. A 10 quid discount. It will be held in my garden. Entrance down the ...
My daughter edits and runs a political website. She works very hard, literally seven days a week. Needing a break (since 2016, working in politics has been like a runaway train: Brexit, two elections, ...
I lived in Cholmeley park, Highgate, North London, from the age of seven to twenty and after that sporadically between travels and non-committal boyfriends. It was my childhood home, a big, dark and ...
This is a fairly basic carrot soup recipe to which I would usually add cashew nuts, to thicken and flavour. But lockdown didn't permit this, so I used what I had, some tahini. Fantastic! I'm going to ...
I wrote this for my newspaper column six weeks ago. Then I went into a very dark space in which I felt so overwhelmed that I couldn't write my blog. What did I do? I gardened and baked (especially ...
I just had a big birthday, the exact number of which shall remain private. In the spirit of self-care, I decided to gift myself a much longed for trip to Japan. What inspiration! Japanese food is ...
I've been wanting to walk the pilgrim's path to Santiago de la Compostella for decades. This is the most famous Christian pilgrimage in the world, dating from before the 8th century, a peregrination ...
I need a new suitcase. I'm leaving for Japan next week. The two I have are broken and they didn't last long. I've been kind of obsessed with luggage for several months now. I spent part of my last ...
MsMarmiteLover aka Kerstin Rodgers.
Chef, photographer, author, journalist, blogger. Pioneer of the supperclub movement.
This is my food and travel blog, with recipes, reviews and travel stories. I also stray into politics, feminism, gardening.