Monthly Archives: August 2016





Episode 592 of This American Life (Are We There Yet?) wasn’t so much This American Life as This Greek Refugee Camp Life. Ira Glass and Miki Meek presented stories from refugee camps across Greece. The resulting programme showed the power of telling individual stories. It humanised the crisis like nothing else I’ve come across. The stories were varied. We had teenagers desperate to get back into […]

This American Life | Are we there yet? Stories from the camps














What is the most exclusive club for professional chefs? Those with Michelin stars? Those with three Michelin stars? What about Le Club des Chefs Des Chefs? This isn’t a mutual admiration society for chefs, but a grouping of those elite kings of the kitchen who cook for the world’s leaders. Whether it is the President, the Queen, the Holy Father or the Chancellor, somewhere behind the scenes is an […]

Power kitchens and the world of culinary diplomacy