Evenings With Peter

Instead of rescuing lost dogs or cats, my father would often return home with stray produce, such as sugar cane and pomegrantes, gathered u...

When I’m fed up with take-out options (and delivery fees!) and don ’ t crave anything in particular, but still feel the need to be fed, I st...

Cooking is often one disaster after another, Julia Child once said (or something like it) and I was reminded of that very notion while maki...

  “ Emotions would be half starved if there were no candlelight. ” — Desperate Remedies , Thomas Hardy

A new version of Wuthering Heights is fast upon us in time for Valentine’s Day. I hear the movie is ‘loosely-based’ on Emily Brontë’s novel...

I have kept datebooks since 1988, daily jotting down where I’ve been, who I was with, and what dishes I made, along with a list of books I’v...

I nearly went mad when a friend mentioned her Bee Sting Cake over dinner the other night. Talk of the German cake ( bienenstich - bee sting...