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Breadcrumb Trail LinksLifeEating & DrinkingCultureBooks'The dishes are so bizarre that I'd be really surprised if any slow cook beginners would make even 1/4 of these recipes' Get the latest from Laura Brehaut straight to your inbox Sign Up Published Mar 22, 2024  •  Last updated 11 minutes ago  •  3 minute read You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account.After receiving The Complete Crockpot Cookbook for Beginners by Luisa Florence, Matthew Kupfer posted, "I'm pretty…

Breadcrumb Trail LinksLifeEating & DrinkingCultureBooksIn her second cookbook, the author and chef shares 100 recipes to build confidence and 'get loose' in the kitchen Get the latest from Laura Brehaut straight to your inbox Sign Up Published Mar 22, 2024  •  Last updated 7 minutes ago  •  15 minute read You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account.Clockwise from left: cookbook author, recipe developer and video host Molly Baz, crispy, crunchy brocc and grains with so…

As far as English counties go, Sussex is not usually viewed as a cultural heavy-hitter. It boasts no equivalent of the Brontës or Thomas Hardy. Wordsworth never took time off from striding the northern Lakelands to stroll across the South Downs. True, Shelley was born on his family’s estate in Horsham, but he got out as soon as he was able, and never looked back. Painters similarly voted with their feet. William Gilpin, pioneer of the picturesque, toured the southern coastal counties in 1774 and, inevitably, given his…

For those of us who consider ourselves fans there is no sport quite so pure, so outright poetic as boxing, because this simple art of consensual combat offers no place to hide. Unlike other working-class sports such as football, with its amateur dramatics and petty squabbles, or American football and its endless ad breaks, boxing boils it down to the basics: hit and be hit, and in the best fighters we get to see the perfect symbiosis of artistry, strategy and brutality. Humans like to watch violence as much as we like to…

Kew Gardens features a hidden magical door in the winning book for this year’s £5,000 Waterstones children’s book prize.Greenwild: The World Behind the Door by Pari Thomson was voted the winner by Waterstones booksellers. The book “is a spellbinding triumph that will make children fall in love with the world they are reading about, and with reading itself,” said Bea Carvalho, head of books at Waterstones.The book follows Daisy as she searches for her missing mother and discovers another world behind a hidden doorway in…

In an NDTV interview, Manju Kapur showcased her giant library, exuding an aura of both an academic and a passionate reader. She then reveals the books that made her. She expresses her gratitude to Annie Proulx, whom she has oddly begun to resemble; she says she is amused by Margaret Atwood’s humour, that she envies Vladimir Nabokov, and derives pleasure from the works of Amitav Ghosh and James Herriot. You see that though she has devoted her life to portraying women as independent prisoners, her interest goes beyond…

Tom Burgis is a “dishonest journalist” whose latest book is a “fucking pack of lies” – or at least that’s what the first paragraph of Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own the Truth, the book in question, says.Burgis, an investigative reporter for the Guardian, is not being unusually self-deprecating in that introduction, but instead relaying the verdict of the man at the centre of Cuckooland’s story. That man is Mohamed Amersi, whose public persona is that of a prolific donor to the Conservative party, a philanthropist who has…

If Emma Stone’s new film Poor Things is anything to go by, it was tricky to get the Victorians to keep their clothes on and their hands to themselves. All the same, their reputation as humourless puritans with a sideline in sadism took most of the 20th century to dislodge. Here are five of the best books that track how the Victorians gradually unravelled and learned to let loose.In these four savage pen portraits, Lytton Strachey, Bloomsbury’s resident trickster, takes down the great and the good of the previous…

‘Our People. Scattered to your four winds … They land, but do they grow where they fall?” This “half-dreamy, half-sad” question, addressed by a Ghanaian father to his son Kwame, haunts Michael Donkor’s second novel. It casts doubt on the promised land of dream and opportunity that drives so many diasporic narratives: one where first-generation immigrants sweat and save, so that the second generation enjoys a better education and life.Education is key here, as Kwame is an out gay English teacher in a London state school,…

At the start of the 2010s, rates of teenage mental illness took a sharp upward turn, and they have been rising ever since. Among US college students, diagnoses of depression and anxiety more than doubled between 2010 and 2018. More worrying still, in the decade to 2020 the number of emergency room visits for self-harm rose by 188% among teenage girls in the US and 48% among boys. The suicide rate for younger adolescents also increased, by 167% among girls and 91% among boys. A similar trend has been observed in the UK and…