I’ve not had a kitchen for months. But now I do! I’m still cleaning and reorganising my dusty clutter. But I’m doing another supper club, so you can come and see the results.
Midsummer Supper Club 17th June
Food
I organised a street party for the Coronation
I've lived in this street for 23 years and I know nobody. This top left corner of the Borough of Camden doesn't have much of a community feel. There's only one park, hidden behind Kilburn High Road, ...
The Seafood Shack in Ullapool, Scotland.
Ullapool seems impossibly high up in the top left corner of the map of the UK, so it was from there I decided to get the ferry to Stornoway, Lewis. It's a small picturesque harbour, sunny on the day I ...
Vegan v Vegetarian
Is veganism pushing vegetarianism off the menu? I’m sitting on a plane, forlornly forking through my pre-ordered vegetarian meal of an over-cooked grain and tasteless vegetables. For dessert ...
The Marmalade Awards 2023 at Dalemain House in Cumbria.
Readers won't be surprised to hear that I'm more of a Marmite girl than a marmalade lover. But in the hierarchy of sweet spreads, marmalade is probably my favourite, in that it is bitter as well as ...
Travel
Adventures in Kent on International Women’s Day
On International Women's Day this year, I was in Canterbury, Kent doing workshops with three female-run companies. The first workshop is run by Hannah Nicholls of Natural Pathways. She was raised ...
Smoked haddock chowder recipe in Suffolk
I drove to Norfolk last week to find a reclaimed window and stopped in at my friend Claire Halsey's beautiful home in Suffolk. It's an 18th century farmhouse and she has the most exquisite ...
Jewish Italian food; artichoke season
Roman-Jewish food is having a moment, two thousand years after Europe's oldest Jewish community settled in that city. Recently two books have been published celebrating Jewish-Italian food: ...
I love Outlander so much I spent a week making an 18th-century stay
Genre-crossing historical drama Outlander is coming to an end. Although the tenth and likely final book is still being written by author Diana Gabaldon, it has been announced that the TV rendition ...
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.