What was your favourite food as a child? My grandmother’s home-made ravioli served in a chicken broth.At what age did you start cooking? I started at around four, helping my Italian grandmother make the ravioli. My grandparents lived in a small village at the foothills of the mou...

SILVER-GREY HAIR, twinkling azure eyes and a penchant for red coats? Mmmm, there’s something vaguely reminiscent of a certain festive fellow in the amiable demeanour of award-winning writer, director and father-of-four, Richard Curtis. Not that he’d ever wear a red coat, of cours...

THE ICONIC HUGS and kisses of the Oxo Tower mark the spot where you’ll find what Trip Advisor has proclaimed “London’s most talked about restaurant.” And with good reason. As if the view across the River Thames afforded by its lofty South Bank

 1. What were you like as a child? I was actually not very interesting at all. I was quite boring. I can’t actually remember being a child: the earliest I can remember is my eleventh birthday, because I got a racing bike. My brother was 11 years older than me and my sister was ei...

“When I grow up, I want to be a fireman” mused Tom Dixon as a child. His career may not have turned out quite how he imagined, but as a world-renowned designer – with time also spent as a welder, bass guitarist with Eighties band Funkapolitan and sometime night club promoter – th...

the fact that they were eating food that look liked the food we were eating. They often talk about that meal. What would you do if your child had a tantrum in a restaurant?I would definitely try not make a big scene. Keep calm and try to calm the child down

What would be your perfect family dinner? Now we’re talking. When I have my mum and dad round, I like a fruit de mer. A seafood dish like this is a communal affair and gets everybody talking. Then an Eton mess for dessert. But when it is just my

Five benefits of having a girl:1. They're fastidious, and get out of nappies quicker.2. They talk more and are often little chatterboxes.3. You can have more fun dressing them up in pretty dresses and accessories.4. Their feet are never going

Forget flocks and herds: they’re so last year. When talking about a large mass of creatures, isn’t a galaxy of starfish, a quiver of cobras, or an exaltation of peacocks so much more poetic? This sumptuously designed tome features an imaginative

Reading Many gifted children learn to read early. However, early reading is not a sign on its own: some gifted children struggle to learn to read, and many early readers aren’t gifted.Walking and talking  Gifted children tend to walk and talk early