Joanna Trollope has some cheery if clichéd observations about family life in The Soldier's Wife but somehow fails to make the characters believable enough for us to want to help them
Read full article...Don't huddle at home - there are plenty of places to go out where you can stay toasty, says Victoria Stewart
Down the cakehole: It's another pop-up but this week it involves the Italian version of the English ginger snap with cream: the Sicilian cannolo
Down the cakehole: For time-pressed Londoners there's a great new monthly subscription service launched by LoveYourLarder.com.
It used to be a common complaint from foreign visitors. "Everything we ate in pubs was greasy," whined a German friend after a trip here a few years ago. "You do have shortbread, I suppose," conceded my Italian flatmate
Down the cakehole: Bored with pop-up restaurants? Well, this latest one, called WigWamBam, is worth a visit
Down the cakehole: Here's a new lunch idea. If you're in Stratford City, Bromley or Kensington, hunt out the Hot Food on the Move counters in M&S and join the queue for the Rotisserie chicken salad
There's a revolution taking place in your fruit bowl this January. While news from America suggests that medlar fruits are about to make a comeback over here, three other unusual fruits are worth taking note of: bring out the guanabana, the nectacot and the lulo
Meet Paul Wesolek, unassuming photographer in London by day, Blintz Boy by night
It's not too late to pick up a voucher for an indulgent beauty treatment. Victoria Stewart rounds up our top recommendations of 2011
The 'Class A foodstuff' is Nigella Lawson's ultimate pleasure - and salted caramel is wowing the rest of London too, says Victoria Stewart
The next three days is probably the only time anyone in London is allowed to eat their entire body weight in chocolate without any justification
Naked or wrapped? Pinto or black beans? Salsa? As hordes queue at London's Mexican street food restaurants, Victoria Stewart finds out why we're eating up to 50,000 wraps a week
Food courts in shopping centres are usually huge, commercial operations that you want to flee from as soon as you've bolted your burger
Grab your coats and hats and prepare for a long night around a very, very long table because Nuno Mendes launches his latest project with the Bootstrap Company tomorrow - and it could get chilly
Mud, sweat and Facebook. The pull of the social fitworking craze attracts Victoria Stewart
There is a new wonder product used by Angelina Jolie, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga and worshipped by almost every hairdresser in London. It's called Moroccanoil
Tom Parker-Bowles thinks they're a "Titan among snacks" while others say that without a packet of them in the other hand, drinking a pint is never as good
Have you ever considered what it might look like when the whole of London goes running?
When I asked a cake expert what she thought the new baking trend might be in 2012, she told me with confidence that cupcakes were here to stay
We sent one lucky family off to experience inspirational Iceland. Read the full story here.
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