So after having some time to come to terms with the end of The Great British Bake Off as we know it, it’s a welcome surprise that the BBC has announced that GBBO, and Mary Berry will be returning for a 2 episode Christmas special! Hallelujah!! Our bodies are SO ready. And although the announcement...Read More
As I caught up on Bread Week earlier today, it got me thinking about the phenomenal success that The Great British Bake Off has seen since it came to our screens back in 2010. Last year’s final was reportedly watched by 12 million viewers and was the second most watched TV show of the year,...Read More
It’s long been rumoured that Anna Wintour and Alexandra Shulman, Editors-in-Chief of U.S and British Vogue respectively, have been at fashion war but it now seems to have come to a head with last night’s airing of BBC 2’s documentary Absolutely Fashion: Inside British Vogue which exposed the magnitude of the feud between the two....Read More
I used to say to my team that August is a month that doesn’t exist. I encouraged people to come in slightly later, go out for coffee and generally use the time to tidy up. I’m not quite sure when August became a month that did exist at Semple but it is now as busy...Read More
Walking to work, bored of the same old songs playing through my headphones, I browse Spotify’s New Releases for some inspiration. Scrolling past endless album covers until one catches my eye – Christine and the Queens ‘Chaleur Humaine’ – an androgynous young woman dressed in black, sits against a contrasting cream and navy backdrop, holding...Read More
O.J. Simpson was once a national treasure but in 1994 the NFL player turned actor was accused of the brutal murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ronald Lye Goldman. Coined the ‘the crime of the century,’ the trial gripped the media with ‘did he didn’t he’ phenomenon splashed across newspapers across the...Read More
The wait is finally over. The bakers have been busy baking, Mel and Sue have been thinking up puns and Mary Berry has been perfecting her wardrobe. It can only mean one thing; The Great British Bake Off is back! ...Read More
A few years ago, my young naïve self-settled down to watch the Grand National with some family, only having just coming out of my ‘family is un-cool’ teenage mentality I don’t recall having any other previous memories of this highly popular, yearly ‘sporting event’ that my family watched. I say ‘sporting event’ reluctantly, because what...Read More
Not only has The Great British Bake Off become an increasingly popular show with every series, but it is also doing its part for cooking shows; the number of television cooking shows has shot up in recent times but rarely, if at all, do cooking shows make their way onto primetime television because they do...Read More
For me, there’s a new foodie craze on the block. Forget your Italian, be gone dehydrated scientific Blumenthal style plates and see you later sushi. Let’s go back to something more traditional, something easy to grab-and-go for lunch or something sophisticated to share for dinner: dim sum. Dim sum are traditional to Chinese cuisine and...Read More
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