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, three prime ministers and two Labour leaders) she booked an airbnb in the Cotswolds. And invited me! Her old mum. The…
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 ...
Last year I visited the Jerte Valley in Spain, where they grow the Picota cherries, twice; once during the stunning blossom season and again when the cherries were ready. It's a short season, around ...
I'm getting a weekly government food box delivered to my door (I was deemed vulnerable due to health issues and living alone). The government should be applauded for getting this underway in such a ...
I soaked a lot of pulsesI planted many seeds 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. ...
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 ...
Cool couple in Bordeaux with brightly coloured suitcases. 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 ...
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.