Archive for the ‘ Lunch with the FT ’ Category

A special relationship

Sitting in the sofa, as I’m writing, to protect my legs from heat, my laptop is cushioned on the FT weekend magazine and FT life and Arts. And what a fine weekend FT it is! One of the many things I like about the FT weekend is its sometimes uncanny ability to explore exactly those [ READ MORE ]

‘In the mood for’ with the Brownbookproject: Russia and all those countries that used to be part of the Soviet Union

Flickering through the travel pages of the Observer this morning, the Brownbook project was very pleasantly reminded of its fascination with Russia and the former Soviet Union. Not even half way through Mike Carter’s article about Lake Baikal in Siberia, I wished that instead of having coffee in my warm apartment in Amsterdam, I was [ READ MORE ]

Lunch by the FT: Italian Beans on Toast

Normally I err towards Jamie Oliver for a recipe (last night I cooked his lamb balti which was delicious) but for today, Sunday, I wanted to go for a FT lunch. After all it is a Sunday. Rowley Leigh has provided the brownbookproject with delectable melt in the mouth pancakes before (not personally of course) and [ READ MORE ]

Brownbookproject weekend: Art and beer in Brussels and Bruge and how you can win a Portobello book!

“I think that the best title for a picture is a poetic title.” René Magritte Magritte is quickly becoming an artist that the brownbookproject is keen to know more about.   Last weekend the bbp attended the Magritte exhibition in Brussels that chronicles the different stages of his life and work. The most I am able [ READ MORE ]

Brownbookproject Sunday wishlist: Item 1

The weekend is here and the brownbookproject is looking forward to getting into a Sunday mood. Apart from the best from the weekend papers, we will also share with you the highlights of the Brussels weekend. To get myself in the mood already now, this afternoon I spent listening to a lecture with George Soros [ READ MORE ]

A few articles to start you off

The rain has just stopped in Paris and I am about to hit the streets. Or rather the rails. My friend is talking me for a walk on what used to be an old train track which is now a park.  I will try to take some pictures to share on Sunday. Before I’m off, [ READ MORE ]

Now is the ‘W’inter of our discontent

By the train station in Harrow a solitary crane rests as a bookmark in what will hopefully one day be completed flats.  Meanwhile TfL are putting fares up by 12.5% next year to fill the gap in revenues created by all the unemployed ex-commuters.  Banks won’t give us any more mortgages, and the UK is massively in debt. Apart from what I can  [ READ MORE ]

Bees and Antichrist

This weekend’s Lunch with the FT doesn’t offer much (one reason perhaps is that the interviewer talks a bit too much about himself and his own book), so I re-read instead an FT lunch from a few weeks ago with Lars von Trier. I saw his latest movie Antichrist last week in Brussels and it [ READ MORE ]

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