The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Lewis would argue that Ailred had it easy, living in a time of plagues, wars and colossal infant mortality. At least he didn't have to go on a cruise up the Amazon with Rosie Boycott and Maureen Lipman, or suffer the put-downs of "sad mother" Julie Myerson and historian Andrew Roberts, with his "grimace of a baboon with diarrhoea", or breathe the same fetid air as Piers Morgan, Simon...
The Tracing Paper (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Edible Geometry: an illustration of 150+ Italian pasta shapes http://ow.ly/unNQ RT @Liz_Upton # Farmer no more: London's "food champion", Rosie Boycott, loses her Somerset smallholding http://j.mp/WmxJ8 # BOGOFL: Tesco promises buy-one-get-one-free-later & other carbon reduction plans http://j.mp/4FVHwx Consumers must hold them to this & more # Carrotgate, The Archers...
Talk about Newsnight (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
... The Man Booker winner will be chosen next Tuesday, but tonight three book prize aficionados Rosie Boycott, John Carey and last year's Man Booker chair, Michael Portillo, will review an enticing list of titles - including the latest novels from former winners AS Byatt and JM Coetzee, and the hot favourite Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. Perhaps they will also explain to me why at least...
Londonist (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Rule #1 when you're launching a new product or service in the local community: don't piss off members of said community. On Thursday morning a gaggle of people including local schoolkids, farmers, press, and Rosie Boycott descended on a Costcutter store in Tower Hamlets to launch a new idea by the Buywell Project to encourage healthy eating. They're working with 16 stores across the...
