Pot, stock (& two smoking barrels)
One of the (let’s be honest, rather many) obstacles to me becoming a vegetarian – as opposed to a passionate lover of all kinds of veg – would be what do to about stock. I often toy, more than idly,...
View ArticleA Woman of Style, Substance & Hedgehog Slice
I have just heard tonight that Mrs Spain, one of my mother’s dearest friends, died this week. My mum died 15 years ago, and I haven’t kept properly in touch with her friends … so it came as a great...
View ArticleEager for Uighur
This week’s column from the Empress in Good Living is a beauty, and extra fun for us to read because we were crash test dummies for one of these Chinese muslim restaurants with her – the Western Orient...
View ArticleIn celebration of celery
If there’s one vegetable always found in my crisper, it’s the humble bunch of celery – it goes in everything from soups to curries to pasta to tagines to all those good Mediterranean casserolish...
View ArticleSnag a sausage roll
The Empress has come over all flaky in her Good Living 3-of-a-kind column this week – it’s on sausage rolls. I can vouch for the goodness of the Bourke St Bakery pork & fennel version, and the...
View ArticleFine but frugal food – is it possible?
I’ve come to the realisation, rather late in the piece, that the dough has run out. Renovation sure takes it out of a gal, and the latest bit of it – our backyard spritz, even done with volunteer...
View ArticleSweet & sour: spicy cumquat chutney
Inspired by Fiona’s comment about Indian food yesterday, plus the fact we had been given two kilos of beautiful Killcare cumquats by our friends the Nannas of Naremburn, I messed around with a few...
View ArticleKitchen calamity
Well, it doesn’t happen very often, but it did last night. I cooked a Truly Revolting meal for my beau and myself. It was supposed to be a lovely rich dahl and a dish of potatoes and peas in a yoghurt...
View ArticleBack to the books
Further to our very satisfying natter about cookbooks a couple of weeks back, I have now obtained the Empress’s informative and amusing cookbook manifesto, first published a few years ago in Good...
View ArticleIn love with labneh
Inspired by the happy coincidence of my friend Ms Melba’s recent gift of her incredibly good homemade labneh – that creamy, unbelievably smooth yoghurt cheese – and Miss J’s birthday gift of the...
View ArticleGoogle celebrates 100th anniversary of gay war hero’s Alan Turing’s birth...
Google has celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing, the gay mathematical genius and codebreaker who not only was the effective inventor of the computer but also a key driver behind...
View ArticleGovernment Communications chief regrets treatment of codebreaker Alan Turing
The head of the Government Communications Headquarters has expressed regret at the way Alan Turing, a gay World War Two codebreaker, was treated in the years leading up to his suicide. Iain Lobban,...
View ArticleComment: Time is right to pardon Alan Turing
Writing for PinkNews.co.uk, Labour Party member Andrew Pakes says the government must issue gay scientist and computing pioneer Alan Turing with an official pardon. Earlier this month, Labour...
View ArticleLondon: Islington and Camden to host UK’s ‘biggest’ LGBT History Month...
Organisers in the London boroughs of Islington and Camden say February’s programme of events for LGBT History Month will be the largest in the UK. The nationwide theme for LGBT History Month in 2013...
View ArticleQueen grants gay war hero Alan Turing a posthumous pardon
The Queen has granted a posthumous pardon to the gay World War Two hero Alan Turing under the Royal Prerogative of Mercy. Turing was prosecuted for gross indecency in 1952, after having a relationship...
View ArticleTel Aviv: Memorial for gay victims of the Holocaust unveiled
A memorial honouring gay victims of the Holocaust has been unveiled in Tel Aviv. It features a concrete pink triangle, the same symbol used by the Nazis to mark someone as gay. City councilman and...
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New Auschwitz ‘showers’ cause visitor outrage
Management at the former Nazi concentration camp have caused controversy by installing sprinklers above entrances to the site. When the team in charge of the Auschwitz Memorial installed sprinklers...
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‘Nazi grandma’ jailed for denying the Holocaust ever happened
Fascist Ursula Haverbeck was jailed for ten months. An 87-year-old grandmother has been imprisoned for 10 months after she insisted that Auschwitz was “not historically proven” to be a death camp....
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Rare Alan Turing postcard fetches nearly £30k at auction
A postcard written by World War Two codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for £28,000 at auction. 41 at the time, Turing sent the postcard from Corfu in 1953, a year before he killed himself by taking...
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World War Two gay love letters could get Hollywood adaptation
The lost love letters between two gay world war two soldiers have sparked possible Hollywood interest. Gilbert Bradley and Gordon Bowsher’s romantic letters were written during in the war, where they...
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