Our resident chef Mark Hix on the versatility of an old favourite: ricotta cheese February 6, 2018 Ricotta is one of those great, versatile cheeses, ideal for both sweet and savoury dishes and appropriate at any time of the year. It’s actually a byproduct of rennet-coagulated cheesemaking, so it’s also environmentally sound. My fondest memory of ricotta – and believe me, there have been many fond memories – came about 20 years [...]
Fitness advice: Why focusing on a ‘healthy’ diet may be stopping you from losing weight February 6, 2018 When I was growing up, food didn’t come with information about calories or salt or sugar content. You just used a bit of common sense, a bit of guess work and left a bit to chance. Now it’s a legal requirement for any supermarket food to have nutritional information attached. Look at any label [...]
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Shoot Them: We went on safari with Kenya’s top photographer February 2, 2018 Normally at hotels I’m rather picky about who joins me for breakfast, but this time I made an exception. Or as much of an exception you can claim to make when a herd of wild Rothchild’s giraffes wander over uninvited to pop their necks through the lodge’s windows in search of a bite to eat. [...]
‘Supermarket giants doomed’ – no, just history repeating February 2, 2018 Investors, analysts, journalists or other market commentators often become convinced some scenario or trend definitely will or will not play out. Check back a few years later, however – always anyone bothers – and that certainty may prove unwarranted. Three or four years ago, for example, many were arguing it was ‘game over’ for supermarket [...]
Focus On Deptford: We delve into the housing market in the Help to Buy capital of London January 26, 2018 Since Help to Buy, the government’s equity scheme to help first time buyers on to the property ladder, was announced in 2013, it’s created thousands of new home owners. And nowhere has benefited more from this than Deptford. This once run down part of south east London is now the Help to Buy capital of [...]
Applying for finance: The five common mistakes made by startups January 25, 2018 When you decide to apply for a loan to kick-start your firm’s growth, it’s a daunting task as much as it is an exciting one. Essentially, you’re putting your business out there and opening it up to potential scrutiny. This means you have to find a balance between making your business an attractive proposition, while [...]
Nestled deep within the Ecuadorian cloud forest, Mashpi Lodge is a hotel at one with the nature surrounding it January 24, 2018 Shortly after the turn of the century the former mayor of Quito, Roque Sevilla, bought up a vast chunk of the Ecuadorian cloud forest from a local logging company, and turned the land into one of the largest privately owned conservation areas in the country. Somewhere in the centre of it all, on the site [...]
Interiors: Lykke is set to be the Scandi trend of 2018, but what is it, how do you say it and what does it mean for my dining table? January 19, 2018 Copenhagen is not only one of the world’s style capitals, it’s home to the Happiness Research Institute. CEO, Meik Wiking, finds out and measures what happiness is and generates more of it. We know him as the author of The Little Book of Hygge in which he shares the Danes’ love of cosy – winter [...]
Fitness advice: Healthy eating is key, but it may not mean what you think – the food myths to avoid January 10, 2018 We all know that eating healthily is crucial to getting in shape, whether that means dropping fat, building muscle or getting better at sports. But what “healthy eating” actually means is far from clear, with the perceived wisdom changing all the time. It’s incredible to me that we’re still undecided about what to feed [...]
Daimler invests in What3Words, a British tech startup mapping the entire world with words January 10, 2018 Daimler has taken a stake in an innovative British mapping startup that created an entirely new postcode system for Mongolia last year. The German carmaker behind Mercedes has taken a 10 per cent stake in What3Words, a startup creating a three word address for each nine square area on the planet. The deal, the value [...]