TV reviewDramaReviewChannel 4’s new miniseries holds all the light and dark elements of a complicated premise in balance, and even finds room for some laughs
There aren’t many certainties left in this increasingly barbaric and chaotic year of our fled Lord 2020, but one of the few remaining, to which I cling as if a drowning woman to driftwood, is this: as far as ever is possible, you should always be warned when a prolapse is in the offing. Read More...
Yotam Ottolenghi recipesFoodThe secret to cooking cabbage? Keep it short and sweet
The cabbage family is both large (there are more than a dozen relatives) and strong-flavoured. Cabbage tissue contains two kinds of chemical that contribute to this: the flavour precursors (that green, grassy aroma uncooked cabbage has when it’s cut) and the enzymes, which react with those precursors when cooked. The longer cabbage cooks, the more it smells – and the more likely it is to send some people, children especially, running a mile. Read More...
BooksInterview‘Confederates were traitors’: Ty Seidule on West Point, race and American historyMartin Pengelly in New YorkThe discovery of a plaque showing a member of the Ku Klux Klan at the US military academy made headlines. One member of the commission which recommended its removal is a historian of the US army and the lost cause myth
In a 36-year army career, Ty Seidule served in the US, Germany, Italy, Kenya, Kosovo, Macedonia, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Read More...