The Gentle Art of Domesticity by Jane Brocket

April 12, 2010

Last month I wrote a blog for The Atlantic‘s Food Channel about my obsession with British cookbooks and the best places to cookbook shop in London. One of the blog’s readers suggested that I might want to get my hands on a book called Cherry Cake and Ginger Beer: A Golden Treasury of Classic Treats [...]

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The 8 worst toilets in the world

April 10, 2010

I’m fascinated by toilets around the world. (My big goal in life is to visit the Sulabh International Museum of Toilets next time I’m in India.) Not sure why this fascination, except it might be a genetic quirk, a healthy infusion of Anglo-Saxon blood that makes anything poo-related utterly engaging to me. This personal quality, [...]

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Live from Abbey Road (London webcams)

April 9, 2010

Did you know there’s a webcam view of Abbey Road at the crosswalk made famous by the Beatles? I didn’t. I’ve been watching it for the last half hour, waiting for a gang of four to do “the walk.” So far, I’ve just seen some groups of people gathered on the sidewalk; perhaps they’re looking [...]

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We want season 3 of Mistresses on BBC America!

April 8, 2010

I’ve mentioned before on Hail Britannia my obsession with Mistresses, the soapy series about four friends with messy love lives that ran for two seasons on BBC America. In fact, that post gets hundreds of hits each month from people looking for news about its third season, supposedly in production with Joanna Lumley in a [...]

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A 20-year-old letter from England, part 2

April 6, 2010

Wednesday, August 9, 1989 Disley, Cheshire, England Today Frances, her friend Brenda and I spent the day at Newstead Abbey, Lord Byron’s ancestral home in Nottinghamshire. First we enjoyed a leisurely drive through the countryside, long, winding roads lined with mauve weed and grasses and goldenrod. Miles of dry stone walls pitching recklessly along hillsides [...]

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Tea in London

April 5, 2010

(Today I have a guest post from Denise LeCroy who runs Tea in London, which specializes in tours to London for tea lovers. Denise tells me that registration for her upcoming September tour has been extended to the end of this month.) *** Do you have a passion for something, or perhaps a passion for [...]

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A 20-year-old letter from England, part 1

April 2, 2010

The reason why I’ve been so quiet is that we’re moving from Boston to Houston, Texas, in the next few months and my days have been spent cleaning the house, packing boxes, and going through files. (ETA 4/23/10: The move is now off, but I’m still cleaning the house.) I found a diary I’d kept [...]

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Cookery Books: Britain’s Gift to America

March 16, 2010

As many of you know, by day I’m a professional writer, so it’s especially thrilling when I can write about my obsessions (cookbooks, Anglophilia) for a publication I adore. Today, a piece I wrote about my obsession with British cookbooks is up on The Atlantic‘s Food Channel. Enjoy!

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