Adam Handling, chef
IF I could live anywhere in the world, it would be Bangkok in Thailand. I love the food there and the culture—[people] sit on little plastic stools in the streets eating the most wonderful, affordable food that is fresher than anything you’ll ever get in this country. I first went to Bangkok about 10 years ago—my best friend lives there and he would show me the places the tourists don’t go to, where you get to taste some really incredible things.
Thai food over here very much caters for the UK market and it has to travel halfway around the world. Over there, they’re eating what they’re picking out of the ground. That is the great thing about it—the fish comes out of the sea, then you’re eating it. Some of the meat markets are pretty grim—they do the butchery right in front of you and you think: ‘Do I really want to eat that?’ But then you decide: ‘Yeah, OK.’
Live in Bangkok With two gardens and a pool, this four-bedroom house in a central area of Bangkok allows residents to dip in and out of the city’s bustle. THB59 million (about £1.375m), Savills (00 66 844 229 090; www.savills.com)
The Thai work ethos is incredible—they work so hard. You see elderly ladies on the street making the same thing that they’ve made for years and they make it better than anyone—they’ve mastered their field. Asia as a whole knows how hospitality should be done, it’s so elegant. Even the Chinatown in Bangkok is more advanced than the one in London. It’s huge and the food is phenomenal.
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Save our family farms
IT Tremains to be seen whether the Government will listen to the more than 20,000 farming people who thronged Whitehall in central London on November 19 to protest against changes to inheritance tax that could destroy countless family farms, but the impact of the good-hearted, sombre crowds was immediate and positive.
A very good dog
THE Spanish Pointer (1766–68) by Stubbs, a landmark painting in that it is the artist’s first depiction of a dog, has only been exhibited once in the 250 years since it was painted.
The great astral sneeze
Aurora Borealis, linked to celestial reindeer, firefoxes and assassinations, is one of Nature's most mesmerising, if fickle displays and has made headlines this year. Harry Pearson finds out why
'What a good boy am I'
We think of them as the stuff of childhood, but nursery rhymes such as Little Jack Horner tell tales of decidedly adult carryings-on, discovers Ian Morton
Forever a chorister
The music-and way of living-of the cabaret performer Kit Hesketh-Harvey was rooted in his upbringing as a cathedral chorister, as his sister, Sarah Sands, discovered after his death
Best of British
In this collection of short (5,000-6,000-word) pen portraits, writes the author, 'I wanted to present a number of \"Great British Commanders\" as individuals; not because I am a devotee of the \"great man, or woman, school of history\", but simply because the task is interesting.' It is, and so are Michael Clarke's choices.
Old habits die hard
Once an antique dealer, always an antique dealer, even well into retirement age, as a crop of interesting sales past and future proves
It takes the biscuit
Biscuit tins, with their whimsical shapes and delightful motifs, spark nostalgic memories of grandmother's sweet tea, but they are a remarkably recent invention. Matthew Dennison pays tribute to the ingenious Victorians who devised them
It's always darkest before the dawn
After witnessing a particularly lacklustre and insipid dawn on a leaden November day, John Lewis-Stempel takes solace in the fleeting appearance of a rare black fox and a kestrel in hot pursuit of a pipistrelle bat
Tarrying in the mulberry shade
On a visit to the Gainsborough Museum in Sudbury, Suffolk, in August, I lost my husband for half an hour and began to get nervous. Fortunately, an attendant had spotted him vanishing under the cloak of the old mulberry tree in the garden.
