May 18, 2021 | Blog
TodayTopicsWritersPodcastsMagazineMoreSearchAccount Magazine Issue: 15 May 2021 More from Books Paul Levy We shouldn’t be so squeamish about eating foie gras Norman Kolpas argues that overfeeding geese mimics what pre-migratory birds do naturally, and our disapproval...
May 18, 2021 | Blog
Jump to content NEWS WEBSITE OF THE YEAR Telegraph View Our columnists Letters to the Editor Obituaries Cartoons On this day John Hopkins, colourful US novelist who chronicled the louche expat scene in Tangier – obituary A central figure in the group that included...
Mar 12, 2021 | Blog
Barbara Rose CREDIT Chris Felver Getty Images Barbara Rose, the internationally celebrated art historian, curator, critic and filmmaker, who has died aged 84, was a pioneer in several fields of scholarship, ranging from the art of Romanesque Spain to contemporary...
Dec 13, 2020 | Blog
Dirt: Adventures in French Cooking By Bill Buford, Jonathan Cape £18.99 Dirt has a bad name. What a shame that the UK publishers didn’t change the monosyllabic title of Bill Buford’s knotty, gripping memoir of restaurant kitchens in Lyon for British readers....
Dec 6, 2020 | Blog
Harold McGee’s Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World’s Smells is an ambitious and enormous work. Indeed it’s so large, at 654 pages and weighing nearly a kilo, that I could only manage to read it at the kitchen table — which made me appreciate its...
Sep 26, 2020 | Blog
As the late Howard Hodgkin once said to me, “Everything we remember about the Sixties actually happened in the Seventies.” I know what he meant: fashion news had to trickle down to us, at the same time that our post-student grant incomes had to increase enough to make...
