by Ellee Seymour | Jan 30, 2008 | updates
If, like me, you watched Newsnight last night with journalist Mi chael Pollan being quizzed about his latest book, In Defence of Food, did you also wonder why food has become so complicated? For example, who eats butter any more? Is it made from the right kind of fat,...
by Ellee Seymour | Jan 29, 2008 | updates
As someone who has helped Nigella Lawson amass her millions by tuning in to watch the Domestic Goddess demonstrate her culinary skills, as well as buying her latest Nigella Express cookbook – the pear and chocolate pudding is to die for – I was fascinated...
by Ellee Seymour | Jan 28, 2008 | updates
Do be sure to watch ITN’s News at 10 this evening and see their dangerous undercover investigative work on sex trafficking in Eastern Europe, it’s a highly lucrative trade. I’ve just seen a trailer and it is going to be really gripping and...
by Ellee Seymour | Jan 28, 2008 | updates
I don’t imagine it will be too long before Tony Juniper lands a top new job which will enable him to continue promoting green issues. The Friends of the the Earth will find him a hard act to follow after he steps down as director from the green group later this...
by Ellee Seymour | Jan 26, 2008 | updates
My exotic mother Loula is visiting me this weekend. Her motto in life is to “live and love your life away”. Yet every time I speak to her on the phone, her last words are: “I must go and wash the kitchen floor”. She seems obsessed with washing...
by Ellee Seymour | Jan 26, 2008 | updates
I must confess I have never read a Mills & Boon book, yet 35 million bodice-ripping copies are sold every year – one every three second. This year marks the centenary of the publisher, and I was surprised to learn that its romance writers did not include the...
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