HeyJaredHelen Collier's Home Dispatches
Food writer and Le Cordon Bleu trained pastry chef living in Greece and London, sending dispatches from a double life.
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It's All Greek To Me. (opens the original)
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Learning a language is hard, learning a language in your 50’s, mid or post menopause (who knows where I am these days) is even harder, like climbing a mountain in Manolo’s and if you’ve read any of my posts, then you will know how much I struggle with a heel. In a previous life, when I spent a time at drama school, I could recite entire plays - not only knowing my lines, but everyone else’s. Obviously I did not do this out loud otherwise I would have had no friends. I am jealous of people with a
Eleonora Who? (opens the original)
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A birthday mini break to Alonissos involves Adrian asking me if there is anything in particular I would like to do. “Find Eleonora’s Falcons” I reply, having already given this some thought. Adrian receives this news stoically as if he never really expected me to say something straightforward.I say “Eleonora’s Falcons” with the type of authority that might lead one to believe that I know what they are or that I might have a passing acquaintance with this Eleonora woman. This is not the case. I w
The Good, The Bad And The Downright Ugly (opens the original)
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I have returned to Greece to cool down in every sense of the word. A trip to England in the grip of a sweaty heatwave has been in turns delightful (friends and family), satisfying (food!) and horrific (South West Railways - more later). The humidity was so intense in London I could not prevent my sunglasses sliding off the sweat on my nose, a first. My bedroom was as hot as Hades and I had a nightly visit from Cerberus (my eldest stepson’s dog, actually called Oscar but I am wringing the life ou
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