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This is my ode to France through my perpetual love of food and wine, sprinkled with anecdotes of life and love and probably disaster. Occasionally (hopefully) funny.
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A competition essay that never got short-listed, long-listed, or basically acknowledged... So, enjoy! (opens the original)
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I remember the anxiety and my clammy hands as I sat awaiting my interview in the majestically marbled halls of Claridge’s. I was there with the hope of becoming part of the wine team at the highly anticipated opening of Eleven Madison Park’s London outpost, Davies & Brook. As if imitating the times table of my childhood, I was running the Grand Crus of Chablis and the crus of Beaujolais on a loop in my head, trying to calm my frayed nerves.I was certain that they would ask me to differentiate th
August, Août | the importance of the pootle, the joy of the apéro + how to rebound (opens the original)
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I am certain that the pootle is an almost-British iteration of the apéro. The pootle involves less smoking, drinking, eating, flirting and/or complaining (depending on your mood), but I believe in its soul, they are one and the same and are both key to living a good bloody life.I am relieved to see that pootle — of such frequent occurrence in my vocab — isn’t one of those weird words you learn from your family, only to realise in adulthood that it doesn’t exist and that your family is just a bit
July, Juillet | a dead bat, break ups, love letters + my brief stint as a water jousting WAG (opens the original)
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I think it is fair to say that this month has been a very random one. In some ways it feels like it’s been a gorgeously summery collection of weeks filled with boat rides, gorging on pornographically ripe peaches and apricots, endless cold wine, many ciggies, much turquoise-water swimming, and just the right amount of late nights and raucousness. I took my first holiday in a long time - going by ferry to Sardinia - and somewhere in the midst of the pasta and free-poured negronis, I realised that
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