Why is the MoJ making life so hard for prison charities?
For 15 years The Clink charity has run commercial restaurants in prisons, training inmates to cook and teaching them front-of-house…
How to ski when you can’t ski
I was 30 when I first went skiing, and up for absolutely anything. I was a successful party caterer who…
My garden decor advice for Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson has three lifesize, carved wooden elephants in his garden, given to him by his wife for his 60th…
The truth about Paul Hollywood
My husband and I are in New York, where everyone is talking about the approaching Trump-Biden debate. Well, I’ll be…
Diary
Two and a half years ago I joined the Tory party to vote for Boris, then unjoined as soon as…
Letter from Gozo
Our plans for the Seychelles twice thwarted, we finally decide on Gozo, Malta. Afraid that the Insulate Britain brigade might…
London notebook
In London for the first time in 18 months, I was as excited as a child on a birthday outing.…
From hard tack to trifle
Prue Leith traces the biscuit’s surprisingly colourful history
Chef’s Notebook
I’d never have thought I’d be good at doing nothing. Or rather walking the dogs, loafing in the sun, trying…
Diary
I made the mistake of saying I thought insects might help feed the world. They are high-protein, cheap to farm…
Prue Leith: My plan to get real catering back into hospitals
Picture the scene: we are filming the opening link for The Great British Bake Off. Here I am in the…
From bitter loss to sweet relief: baking as therapy
This is a gentle, lovely book. It will, I’m sure, appeal to many an aspiring cook and baker, and should…
Prue Leith: When did the Samaritans lose their way?
In the past few weeks, on three separate occasions, I have met three different women who for years (one for…
Prue Leith’s Christmas kitchen nightmares
Christmas in our family seems to guarantee tears and tantrums as well as jingle bells and jollity. Indeed, in my…
Prue Leith: Forget home remedies — morphine is the real way to cure cramp
Is it just my age, or has summer always galloped past with indecent haste? No sooner do the reluctant leaves…
The adoption waiting game
When my husband, John, was born in 1946, doctors were the chief agents of adoption. His mother was young, single,…
Gambia is like a real-life Tinder for geriatrics
When Facebook and co stop selling on our details to third parties, will it be the end of spam? For…
Prue Leith: Everyone’s waiting for me to make another Bake Off gaffe
Edinburgh is a peach of a city, is it not? Last week, I walked up to the castle on a…
Notebook
To Skibo Castle for a four-day wedding, a dream of super-luxury and great good fun. I was struck by how…
Fat Britannia: what can be done about our expanding waistlines?
The good news is that Theresa May has dropped the threat to withdraw universal free school meals. Thank God (and…
Our big fat problem
The good news is that Theresa May has dropped the threat to withdraw universal free school meals. Thank God (and…
Fad diets are just junk
Why do we do it? We really need to stop supporting the snake-oil industry. We know there is no such…
Notebook
I’m an unashamed Archers fan. But for the first time in 50 years I’m exasperated by the storyline. A fortnight…
