Why Liz Truss shouldn’t be PM
Two and a half years ago I joined the Tory party to vote for Boris, then unjoined as soon as…
The problem with Boris going on Bake Off
Our plans for the Seychelles twice thwarted, we finally decide on Gozo, Malta. Afraid that the Insulate Britain brigade might…
At last, a dose of up-close culture in London
In London for the first time in 18 months, I was as excited as a child on a birthday outing.…
The humble biscuit has a noble history
Prue Leith traces the biscuit’s surprisingly colourful history
Why is it that age limits never apply to men?
I’d never have thought I’d be good at doing nothing. Or rather walking the dogs, loafing in the sun, trying…
Prue Leith: My carbon footprint should put me in jail
I made the mistake of saying I thought insects might help feed the world. They are high-protein, cheap to farm…
Prue Leith: My plan to get real catering back into hospitals
Picture the scene: we are filming the opening link for The Great British Bake Off. Here I am in the…
From bitter loss to sweet relief: baking as therapy
This is a gentle, lovely book. It will, I’m sure, appeal to many an aspiring cook and baker, and should…
Prue Leith: When did the Samaritans lose their way?
In the past few weeks, on three separate occasions, I have met three different women who for years (one for…
Prue Leith’s Christmas kitchen nightmares
Christmas in our family seems to guarantee tears and tantrums as well as jingle bells and jollity. Indeed, in my…
Prue Leith: Forget home remedies — morphine is the real way to cure cramp
Is it just my age, or has summer always galloped past with indecent haste? No sooner do the reluctant leaves…
The adoption waiting game
When my husband, John, was born in 1946, doctors were the chief agents of adoption. His mother was young, single,…
Gambia is like a real-life Tinder for geriatrics
When Facebook and co stop selling on our details to third parties, will it be the end of spam? For…
Prue Leith: Everyone’s waiting for me to make another Bake Off gaffe
Edinburgh is a peach of a city, is it not? Last week, I walked up to the castle on a…
Notebook
To Skibo Castle for a four-day wedding, a dream of super-luxury and great good fun. I was struck by how…
Fat Britannia: what can be done about our expanding waistlines?
The good news is that Theresa May has dropped the threat to withdraw universal free school meals. Thank God (and…
Our big fat problem
The good news is that Theresa May has dropped the threat to withdraw universal free school meals. Thank God (and…
Fad diets are just junk
Why do we do it? We really need to stop supporting the snake-oil industry. We know there is no such…
Notebook
I’m an unashamed Archers fan. But for the first time in 50 years I’m exasperated by the storyline. A fortnight…
Diary
A fortnight ago I got a taste of what being far too famous might feel like. A leak that I’m…
Diary
A fortnight ago I got a taste of what being far too famous might feel like. A leak that I’m…
Diary
To Edinburgh to get married, but first my toyboy groom John Playfair (he’s a mere 69) shows me the city…
Diary
To Edinburgh to get married, but first my toyboy groom John Playfair (he’s a mere 69) shows me the city…
