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My Secret Life: Matthew Williamson, 38
29 May 2010 12:00 AM
My parents were... supportive, creative and inspiring. My mother was an optical receptionist and my father had his own television sales company.
Paloma Faith: a Cuban twist on the retro look
29 May 2010 12:00 AM
Kew here: preparing a garden for the public
29 May 2010 12:00 AM
Malcolm Gladwell: I wanted to be an academic but then I realised that academics are hedgehogs and I am a fox
29 May 2010 12:00 AM
Malcolm Gladwell is the New Yorker essayist who has also published three best-selling, non-fiction books: The Tipping Point, Blink and The Outliers, but not Jamie Does, which is by Jamie Oliver and is a celebration of food from six different countries. Wake up!
Bar Boulud, Knightsbridge, SW1
29 May 2010 12:00 AM
Your heart may not leap with recognition at Daniel Boulud's name, but it comes trailing clouds of glory from New York, where he's a big star. Originally from Lyon, he relocated to the Grand Pomme in 1982. Eleven years later, in 1993, his first restaurant, Daniel, opened to acclaim and has just picked up its third Michelin star. In the intervening 17 years, he opened four more New York establishments, and sister restaurants in Florida, Las Vegas and Vancouver. He even, with the Maison Boulud à Pekin, introduced thunderstruck Chinese diners to the wonders of French bistro fare.
Anthony Rose: You can now put Spar's wines on your dinner table without attracting a derisory snort from your guests
29 May 2010 12:00 AM
Laura Jewell likes the expression "does what it says on the tin". That's because, since she joined Spar as their wine buyer a year ago, she's been busy re-vamping the range with wines that do a job at the price. Spar, which opened for business in the UK in 1967, is possibly not the first wine port of call for Independent readers. Toilet rolls perhaps; in fact anything you might drop into the local store for on your way home. But wine?
Mark Hix's best ever summer recipes, part 2
29 May 2010 12:00 AM
Elderflower buttermilk pudding with raspberries
A bit of a pickle: Mark Hix's preservation orders
08 November 2008 12:00 AM
John Maynard Keynes: Can the great economist save the world?
08 November 2008 12:00 AM
Beauty Queen: What perfume did Cleopatra dab behind her ears to impress Mark Antony and Caesar?
08 November 2008 12:00 AM
The combined efforts of Liz Taylor and the British Museum have done a good job of familiarising us with Cleopatra's make-up techniques, namely kohl and more kohl; and we've all heard that she softened her skin by bathing in asses' milk. One element of her ancient beauty routine is missing, however. What perfume did she dab behind her ears to impress Mark Antony and Caesar?
Cyclo-therapy
08 November 2008 12:00 AM
At the end of October, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, finally capitulated in the fight to keep motorcycles out of bus lanes, announcing that an 18-month trial will begin across the capital on 5 January 2009.
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