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Six months to the day after we moved to Liverpool and my first review for the brilliant Bido Lito! was published. It was a fitting flourish to celebrate our happy milestone.
Learning more about the eating disorders Scarlett Thomas raised in her novel, I was struck by ‘orthorexia’ and how the echoes of this fear-focused disorder reverberated around recent approaches to food and diet.
Having switched up my new year reading list order, I took up Scarlett Thomas’s Oligarchy. Unfortunately, the thin book revealed a thin plot and the real issue at the heart of it all was harpooned and left to waste away.
I am feeling angry and aggrieved in a way that I haven’t for a long time. In the history of our civilised evolution there have been leaps forward and stumbles back, and our current time feels like a whip-lash inducing move into reverse.
2020 resolution number one: TICK. Vegetarian January is complete. But how did it go? What did I discover? And what happened on February 1st?
Celebrating Chinese New Year in my new city got me to thinking. When you’re in a rut and trying to find your sense of self it’s important to remember: expectations kill, curiosity creates.
Food has become more than mere sustenance for me. As I dip my toe in the culinary delights that Liverpool has to offer, I am encouraged to swim deeper into the currents of home-cooked recipes and to see if I can replicate such wonders at home.
Taking a step back in time to an October morning when a visit to the Mersey became a journey into art, history and a city of great significance.
Thanks to a bumper Christmas crop and a handy half-price sale, I know exactly how my 2020 reading list is going to kick off. And I’m extremely excited about each and every one.
Turns out, that ‘jangle’ I can hear is the sound of screeching tyres as they start to straighten and pick up traction post turning that metaphorical corner.