We are currently in Autumn and but it feels like the bleak midwinter! It is so cold. However, all is not lost because what does artic freeze mean? Yes, a cheeky hot chocolate without guilt…
Two years ago when I was at the Venice film festival, I ate my body weight in ice cream on a daily basis. Wait! Excuse me – gelato, yes I ate my body weight in…
My simple diet rule is this: if a cake or biscuit is crumbled and/or broken up in pieces so much the better as that means all the calories have escaped = a calorie free delight…
“Let Them Eat Cake innit” is what Marie-Antoinette said when she heard the peasants were starving, perhaps not the innit part but poetic licence and all that. To think she lost her head over that because…
What does Catherine de Médicis and my latest sweet treat experience have in common? The answer is the name – Popelini. It may be the name of the shop but also it is the name…
