Good food writing creates an alternative world to the one you currently inhabit.
The latest research from the United States suggests that consumers are falling out of love with online shopping. The frantic growth of the one-click habit that has transformed the way Americans obtain their daily bread — not to mention their books, clothes and entertainment too — has stalled and may soon start to decline.
Apparently it will not be long before uniformed Spot operatives are patrolling our airports. Although this sounds like a parody of a parody — one of those weak jokes referencing Austin Powers that a certain kind of middleÂÂaged man still insists on making — screening passengers by observation technique (Spot) is already up and running in the United States.
Women have moved on since the days when passion and love were forms of martrydom, writes Kathryn Hughes.