I have a wonderful wife. As the Summer holidays were drawing to an end and we were trying to keep our sanity until our boys would finally go back to play school and creche, I left Toulouse – my home city in France – and made a dash to Istanbul for a week. On my […]
The still life is a structure of Westernised art that has existed through millennia, from ancient times through to the modern day. It existed as a structure in ancient Greece and Rome with Xenia painting, throughout Renaissance periods, and forming its own genres in the 17th Century with Dutchtechnical still lifes, Vanitas and Memento Mori. […]
They are also a great way to disguise the fact that you are essentially eating a dessert for breakfast, but I won’t tell anyone if you don’t. Ingredients (for 10-12 flapjacks): 1 cup sifted flour 2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 2 tbsp sugar 1 egg 1 cup milk 3 tbsp butter, melted Method: […]
