Copenhagen is on the foodie map thanks to Rene Redzepi’s gastronomic restaurant Noma, but you don’t need shiny stars to serve amazing food. Here are a few of my favourite hygge* brunch spots from when I lived in the city:
I am often attracted to the cover of a book, and if the synopsis is also appealing I will usually buy it. Lured in by the creative artwork, the colours, or even the simplicity, I have read some amazing books
There is a food explosion going on out there and if you’ve missed it, you must have been buried under your duvet for the winter. From the trained chefs to home cooks and celebrities, it seems that almost everybody has
Many of us join a book club with the objective of meeting people, reading more books and possibly diversifying the type of books we read. For some people, reading 10-12 books a year as part of a book club may
Should You Read Before Bed? Ever had one of those nights where you’ve laid in bed exhausted and desperate to get to sleep, but the harder you try, the more sleep eludes you? I seem to be having more and more
In 1976, Bill Kramer–the then manager–had a desire to open a business that provided customers with a place to both eat and read, what he describes as “two of the three most enjoyable activities”. Shortly after the bookstore was opened,
In our modern world of heightened social media, our reading habits can often be limited to reading tweets, short Facebook posts, or even comments on a photograph. However, as I’m writing this for a book focused audience I’m hoping that
I came across a photo recently of a library where the books had been organized and filed based on the colour of the spine. It was an amazing rainbow of colour and so beautiful to look at, but how you
These days brunch offers up a lot of new and exciting options, a new favourite being avocado and eggs on toast. Any respectable brunch establishment should (in my humble opinion) serve up some variation of this crowd-pleaser, and if you’re
Venturing into a new part of London (for me, anyway), I headed to Islington to see what the highly recommended Smokehouse had to offer.