Food by Lois

More on Mr Harben’s soups

Philip Harben was an intriguing character and interesting and popular media personality; born in 1906 to theatrical parents, he wrote many cookery books and presented the first TV cookery show. I have a little book he wrote in 1946, just after the war – or at least, that was when it was published, no doubt […]

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Books by Lois

Namaste: a trek in the Himalaya

One of my first, very earliest memories, the sort of memory you can’t actually believe you remember but yet you do, is hearing about what was called the Conquest of Everest, of Sir Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay, known as Sherpa Tenzing reached the summit of Everest. The two men, part of an expedition, reached the […]

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