I’m writing to you from humid mango-scented Mauritius this month where I’m shooting an international TV commercial for the island’s tourism board. It sounded like a dream when they called me, shivering, ladling minestrone and luxuriating in self-pity after being caught in the January pioggia. The commercial’s director wanted Patrick (my co-star on our Nat […]
Whenever I cook for a boy I’d like to kiss here in Italy I have a minor panic attack I feel very much at home in the kitchen. I always find myself glazed over, gazing at an oven or a chopping board, excited and full of hope – as though epic and beautiful things were […]
I’ve just had one of the best weekends of my life. Outside the air is chilly. I’m sitting here on a Monday morning in a black dress and stilettos feasting on the most decadent breakfast you can imagine in the sensual low light of the Bulgari Hotel in Milan. Through two storeys of glass I […]