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Friday book review – A Modern Way to Eat

Published by Emma Lee-Potter in on Friday 4th July 2014

“Though I cook for a living, I am also pretty impatient and want my dinner on the table in less than half an hour most nights.” Those are Anna Jones’s refreshing words at the start of her gorgeous new vegetarian cookery book, A Modern Way to Eat. I’ve got a million cookbooks already (I’m addicted to them in the same way I loved comics as a child) and as soon as ...keep reading

Lost in the fog – and Jools Oliver’s new children’s range

Published by Emma Lee-Potter in on Tuesday 7th February 2012

For a moment I nearly panicked. I was stuck in the middle of nowhere, in freezing fog, with no phone signal and not a clue where I was going. I was off to my monthly book club, with a copy of Barbara Pym’s Excellent Women tucked in my bag, but it looked like I wasn’t going to make it. Of all the stupid things to do, I hadn’t checked where I ...keep reading

Chocolate biscuits, nagging and getting through exams

Published by Emma Lee-Potter in on Thursday 12th May 2011

Revision fever is rife at House with No Name towers. With two teenagers working towards exams, you could cut the atmosphere with a knife. Desperate to help (something they don’t want at all!), I appealed for advice on Twitter. Answers came back thick and fast, ranging from “nag them about tidying their rooms – they’ll prefer to revise” to “don’t insist that they can revise continuously – build in plenty ...keep reading

Twenty tricky teenagers

Published by Emma Lee-Potter in on Thursday 7th April 2011

My must-see TV of the week is Channel 4’s Jamie’s Dream School – the series where Jamie Oliver gets a host of celebrities to teach 20 tricky teenagers who’ve left school with barely any qualifications. The science teacher is fertility expert Lord Winston (who’s already hit the headlines for getting the boys in the class to study their own sperm). History is taught by Dr David Starkey, politics by spin ...keep reading