How To Make: Choux Pastry
A choux pastry recipe from Maitre Choux founder Joakim Prat.
Children in Charge in Social Media Generation
By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent Parents may rule the roost at home, but children in modern families most definitely lay down the law when it comes to social media, according to new research. The study of 1,000 teenagers by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment found young people will go to great ...
Jeremy Corbyn Elected Labour Leader: and we were there to see it
By Sarah Green "A new dawn has broken, has it not" was uttered with irony across the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre following the emphatic anointment of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Leader. This famous line from a victorious Tony Blair in 1997, reappropriated by Corbynista's in their finest hour, surely now closes ...
Running tours of Lisbon
Segway tours are so passé, bus tours are so passive, and walking tours are too slow-paced. So what's the newest best way to see a new town? Jogging around it, of course. Fitness fanatics will be thrilled to know Inspira Santa Marta Hotel, an 89-room boutique retreat in the heart of ...
Interview: John Torode
Photo: © Yuki Sugiura By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food “This book, ‘My Kind Of Food’, is a document of my life in food, and of my travels and my loves,” begins the introduction to John Torode’s brand new cookbook. “Why did I decide to write it? Because cooking is ...
‘Rent Tent’ Advertised as Spare Room in London
By Grant Bailey (@GrantDBailey) The rise in the cost of renting in London has led to many enterprising tenants subletting rooms in their homes. One such household in Gipsy Hill have taken the concept one step further, however, pitching a tent in their living room to offer to interested lodgers. ...
Viet Cong Unveil Video For ‘Bunker Buster’
Viet Cong, the Calgary-based quartet recently short-listed for Canadas' prestigious Polaris Music Prize, have revealed their brand new video for 'Bunker Buster', directed by Yoonha Park. It's a heady mish-mash of twitchy-faced mannequins, smoking starlets and milky blood. Who are you to resist? If Viet Cong's 'Bunker Buster' elicits the images of a nighttime ...
The Weekly Cocktail Recipe – Hutong’s ‘Bright and Stormy’
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Just across the floor from the dining area of London’s Hutong, specialising in delicious Sichuanese cooking, the restaurant’s bar offers a range of exciting cocktails that are available to enjoy as you gaze across London’s constantly growing skyline, from the 33rd floor of The ...
Fear, Anger and the Republican Mind
By Dr Robin Andrews @squigglyvolcano A new non-partisan study reveals that, in the United States, Republicans and Democrats show very distinct neurological activity when presented with risk and opportunity. Full disclosure: I am utterly convinced that the modern-day Republican politician is almost certainly a divisive, hateful, fearful individual. The fact ...