Philip Gwynne Jones

Cooking with Nathan : The Mushroom Diaries

It’s Monday morning, and Caroline arrives back from the market at Santa Marta with some mixed mushrooms – shiitake, pioppini,

A friend of mine recently suggested “The Venetian Affair” as a future book title. I pointed out that Andrea de

I recently came across this slightly-obscure giallo from 1972, and decided to share my thoughts on it. It rarely gets a

It’s Friday night and we’ve been for a Negroni in the campo. Dinner, therefore, needs to be something reasonably easy

Okay, it’s time for the soundtrack to ‘Venetian Gothic’! Or, at least, for a playlist of the sort of music

Two days ago I went to buy a newspaper, a sandwich and a book. Things that would have seemed banal

I went for something that approximated a proper walk the other day. I was over on Giudecca buying fish –

The next blog post, I hope, will be back to the usual nonsense. Well, I think it’s fair to say

Hi everyone, First of all, thanks for all the good wishes, which are very much appreciated. We are all absolutely

Happy New Year all! Christmas is not quite over (I’m a strict 12 Days man myself, and we’ve still got