Elizabeth David
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Gardening women: meet Fionnuala Fallon’s horticultural heroes
- Gardens
- March 7, 2020, 00:00
We all have our heroes and it’s not surprising so many of mine belong in one way or another to the world of plants. They include gardeners, de(...)

Figs are in season: here’s how to grow your own
- Gardens
- August 31, 2019, 00:00
Ever since childhood I’ve had something of a mild obsession with ripe, garden-grown figs, a fruit that seemed more the stuff of Victorian gardening bo(...)

Yotam Ottolenghi’s fruitful ways with figs
- Food & Drink
- August 30, 2019, 06:01
“Although I could not quite say that figs are my favourite fruit,” wrote food writer Jane Grigson, “they are the fruit I most long for, that I have ne(...)

Keep on blooming: late summer flowers that keep the garden going
- Gardens
- August 3, 2019, 00:00
Most keen gardeners can rattle off a list of the popular hardy perennials that act as the colourful mainstays of the late summer garden. Well-known e(...)

Baked 'paella' with prawns and chorizo makes a hearty meal
- Food & Drink
- May 17, 2019, 06:00
Every dish has a story to tell, but that story often isn’t what you expect or, indeed, want it to be. Take paella, arguably the most famous of Spanis(...)

100 books by women you have to read
- Books
- June 4, 2018, 16:14
The 2018 Hay Festival, in collaboration with The Pool, published this list of 100 books by women, including works by Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Maria(...)

Food’n’health is the new rock’n’roll
- Health & Family
- October 9, 2017, 07:00
We are all heartily sick of hearing about people who claim to be “social influencers” on the internet. With their free gifts, free trips, goodie bags (...)

Bring Tupperware, and 19 other rules about cooking on holiday
- Food & Drink
- August 1, 2017, 12:15
Here follows a series of lessons learned about eating, drinking and cooking on holiday. 1 You can eat well and sleep well, or you can go camping. Don(...)

Gardens: an artichoke by any other name
- Gardens
- November 12, 2015, 13:00
Just how and why some plants acquire their common names can be something of a puzzle. Take the Jerusalem artichoke, a glaring example of a horticultu(...)

7 alternative kitchen designs
- Interiors
- October 30, 2014, 12:34
Say goodbye to the bog standard kitchen and hello to a fun space that doesn’t feel detached from the look of the rest of your home. Maverick archit(...)