Harriet Fitch Little
@harrietfl.ft.com
FT Magazine Food and Drink editor
It's here! This issue is dedicated to how to do a few festive non-negotiables truly brilliantly. With @nigella.bsky.social @jayrayner1.bsky.social @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social @timhayward.bsky.social & more.
It's rainy! Go get a paper then get back into bed.
Alternatively: www.ft.com/christmas2025
It's rainy! Go get a paper then get back into bed.
Alternatively: www.ft.com/christmas2025
November 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM
It's here! This issue is dedicated to how to do a few festive non-negotiables truly brilliantly. With @nigella.bsky.social @jayrayner1.bsky.social @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social @timhayward.bsky.social & more.
It's rainy! Go get a paper then get back into bed.
Alternatively: www.ft.com/christmas2025
It's rainy! Go get a paper then get back into bed.
Alternatively: www.ft.com/christmas2025
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No review from me today cos it’s the @ft_weekend.com CHRISTMAS SPECIAL, edited by @harrietfl.ft.com. It’s a banger and ever better in print. A top team including @nigella.bsky.social @timhayward.bsky.social @jancisrobinson.com and, er, me nominate the Christmas food must haves.
on.ft.com/4rnR3lb
on.ft.com/4rnR3lb
The experts’ guide to the Christmas food and drink that really matters — and how to get it right
If you could only choose one festive treat, what would it be? Nigella Lawson, Jay Rayner, Jancis Robinson and more share their non-negotiables
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November 29, 2025 at 8:58 AM
No review from me today cos it’s the @ft_weekend.com CHRISTMAS SPECIAL, edited by @harrietfl.ft.com. It’s a banger and ever better in print. A top team including @nigella.bsky.social @timhayward.bsky.social @jancisrobinson.com and, er, me nominate the Christmas food must haves.
on.ft.com/4rnR3lb
on.ft.com/4rnR3lb
A lot of what Skye did - seasonal cooking, eliminating single use plastics, using 'waste' products - is so well integrated into the cooking mainstream that it is easy to forget how pioneering it was. My obituary tries to give some small sense of it on.ft.com/4ptDNJF
Skye Gyngell, pioneering chef, 1962-2025
[FREE TO READ] At Petersham Nurseries and Spring, she brought style and beauty to seasonal cooking
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November 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A lot of what Skye did - seasonal cooking, eliminating single use plastics, using 'waste' products - is so well integrated into the cooking mainstream that it is easy to forget how pioneering it was. My obituary tries to give some small sense of it on.ft.com/4ptDNJF
Here's the story. on.ft.com/4rd5VT2
St John’s founders are stepping back. What comes next for the trailblazing nose-to-tail restaurant?
Fergus Henderson and Trevor Gulliver are retiring from day-to-day operations after 31 years
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November 21, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Here's the story. on.ft.com/4rd5VT2
you have absolutely no reason to take a food and drink editor's word for it, but this book is going to be brilliant - in fact that is the word used most often by its many illustrious early readers
THE ASSET CLASS, my first book, will be published by @wnbooks.bsky.social on 9 April 2026. It’s a narrative investigation of private equity, a secretive and relentlessly destructive wing of finance that penetrates almost every aspect of our lives - and it’s available to pre-order now!
November 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
you have absolutely no reason to take a food and drink editor's word for it, but this book is going to be brilliant - in fact that is the word used most often by its many illustrious early readers
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT TIME. I’m delighted to say a follow up to Nights Out At Home is coming. I’m delighted to say Nights Out In The Kitchen is published next September and to celebrate I’m going back out on tour with a brand new show. On priority sale tomorrow and general sale Friday.
November 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT TIME. I’m delighted to say a follow up to Nights Out At Home is coming. I’m delighted to say Nights Out In The Kitchen is published next September and to celebrate I’m going back out on tour with a brand new show. On priority sale tomorrow and general sale Friday.
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We have news. @ftweekend.com is launching a set of business lunch awards. Nominate. Nominate like the wind. And then an illustrious panel of judges will choose the winners. Plus me.
Good morning, FT Weekend is launching a best business lunch award! You can join in! NOMINATE a restaurant and WIN lunch for two at Simpsons on the Strand. Or do it out of gratitude and support for the restaurant biz.. on.ft.com/4q1CqTY
Help FT Weekend crown the best business lunch restaurant in London
[FREE TO READ] Nominations are now open for our inaugural Business Lunch Awards in partnership with OpenTable
on.ft.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
We have news. @ftweekend.com is launching a set of business lunch awards. Nominate. Nominate like the wind. And then an illustrious panel of judges will choose the winners. Plus me.
Reposted by Harriet Fitch Little
Good morning, FT Weekend is launching a best business lunch award! You can join in! NOMINATE a restaurant and WIN lunch for two at Simpsons on the Strand. Or do it out of gratitude and support for the restaurant biz.. on.ft.com/4q1CqTY
Help FT Weekend crown the best business lunch restaurant in London
[FREE TO READ] Nominations are now open for our inaugural Business Lunch Awards in partnership with OpenTable
on.ft.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Good morning, FT Weekend is launching a best business lunch award! You can join in! NOMINATE a restaurant and WIN lunch for two at Simpsons on the Strand. Or do it out of gratitude and support for the restaurant biz.. on.ft.com/4q1CqTY
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Help FT Weekend crown the best business lunch restaurant in London - @harrietfl.ft.com is calling for your nominations and votes www.ft.com/content/00f3...
Help FT Weekend crown the best business lunch restaurant in London
Nominations are now open for our inaugural Business Lunch Awards in partnership with OpenTable
www.ft.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Help FT Weekend crown the best business lunch restaurant in London - @harrietfl.ft.com is calling for your nominations and votes www.ft.com/content/00f3...
Exciting times for the bon viveurs among you. We are launching a Business Lunch Awards in partnership with OpenTable - because lunch is good, lunch is fun, lunch is professional advantageous.
To do this, we need nominations. and there are three (!) excellent prizes up for grabs on.ft.com/4gZEnw3
To do this, we need nominations. and there are three (!) excellent prizes up for grabs on.ft.com/4gZEnw3
Help FT Weekend crown the best business lunch restaurant in London
[FREE TO READ] Nominations are now open for our inaugural Business Lunch Awards in partnership with OpenTable
on.ft.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Exciting times for the bon viveurs among you. We are launching a Business Lunch Awards in partnership with OpenTable - because lunch is good, lunch is fun, lunch is professional advantageous.
To do this, we need nominations. and there are three (!) excellent prizes up for grabs on.ft.com/4gZEnw3
To do this, we need nominations. and there are three (!) excellent prizes up for grabs on.ft.com/4gZEnw3
i personally have nothing but fond feelings towards national ID cards. i paid a whole £10 for an *extremely* legitimate looking one in 2006 only to have it immediately confiscated by the bartender who pointed out "it's literally on the front page today that the government has rejected this scheme".
September 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
i personally have nothing but fond feelings towards national ID cards. i paid a whole £10 for an *extremely* legitimate looking one in 2006 only to have it immediately confiscated by the bartender who pointed out "it's literally on the front page today that the government has rejected this scheme".
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Earlier this year, I spent considerable time working on an essay for @ftweekend.com about issues around autism: www.ft.com/content/d1ba... I read a great deal about the condition and spoke to several experts. There is no indication whatever that use of a single drug in pregnancy is linked to it.
In search of a diagnosis
How my son’s autism assessment sent me on an investigation into my own past
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September 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Earlier this year, I spent considerable time working on an essay for @ftweekend.com about issues around autism: www.ft.com/content/d1ba... I read a great deal about the condition and spoke to several experts. There is no indication whatever that use of a single drug in pregnancy is linked to it.
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Congratulations to @ftweekend.com readers Saoirse Ronan and Jack Lowden on the birth of their first child I have been sent this picture twice already this morning www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar...
September 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Congratulations to @ftweekend.com readers Saoirse Ronan and Jack Lowden on the birth of their first child I have been sent this picture twice already this morning www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar...
not saying jeremy clarkson is a bad man but he is consistently the only person in this village who doesn't do a little hand wave of acknowledgment if you have to pull over for him while driving. which is the countryside equivalent of not saying thank you when someone holds the door.
September 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
not saying jeremy clarkson is a bad man but he is consistently the only person in this village who doesn't do a little hand wave of acknowledgment if you have to pull over for him while driving. which is the countryside equivalent of not saying thank you when someone holds the door.
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I wrote about the loss of excitement around veganism, which I think reflects a deeper shift: progressives have lost faith that they can change the world.
The sooner we get some idealism back, the better on.ft.com/3UPnqdq
The sooner we get some idealism back, the better on.ft.com/3UPnqdq
Why the vegans lost
[FREE TO READ] Veganism didn’t become less good for us or the planet, so what changed?
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August 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I wrote about the loss of excitement around veganism, which I think reflects a deeper shift: progressives have lost faith that they can change the world.
The sooner we get some idealism back, the better on.ft.com/3UPnqdq
The sooner we get some idealism back, the better on.ft.com/3UPnqdq
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I missed this piece at the time but it neatly sums up how incredibly irritating vegan food packaging is
on.ft.com/4mvUtze
on.ft.com/4mvUtze
Vegan products are the wild west of ‘wackaging’
[FREE TO READ] Hey, have you heard the one about the overfriendly oat milk?
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August 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I missed this piece at the time but it neatly sums up how incredibly irritating vegan food packaging is
on.ft.com/4mvUtze
on.ft.com/4mvUtze
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If you must salad make it Maison Francois, Brutto, Bocca di Lupa, Via Carota or Zuni Café. The Weekend FT complete with the definitive summer salad mini magazine is still on sale today on.ft.com/4fLqzVm
London’s best restaurant salads — with recipes
[FREE TO READ] Brutto, Arlington, Bocca di Lupo and Maison François share their secrets
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August 17, 2025 at 7:55 AM
If you must salad make it Maison Francois, Brutto, Bocca di Lupa, Via Carota or Zuni Café. The Weekend FT complete with the definitive summer salad mini magazine is still on sale today on.ft.com/4fLqzVm
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Elsewhere in today’s @ftweekend.com we have a spiffing salad supplement in which I set out to save the dreary British salad from itself.
on.ft.com/4mlVcDb
on.ft.com/4mlVcDb
August 16, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Elsewhere in today’s @ftweekend.com we have a spiffing salad supplement in which I set out to save the dreary British salad from itself.
on.ft.com/4mlVcDb
on.ft.com/4mlVcDb
we made a whole magazine about salad. it is beautiful! it is full of recipes from chefs who really love them! **you can pull it out and keep it in your kitchen!**
or read it online ft.com/summerofsalad
or read it online ft.com/summerofsalad
August 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
we made a whole magazine about salad. it is beautiful! it is full of recipes from chefs who really love them! **you can pull it out and keep it in your kitchen!**
or read it online ft.com/summerofsalad
or read it online ft.com/summerofsalad
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When was the last time you witnessed - or better yet, participated in - a spontaneous mass performance of the popular folk song Why Are We Waiting?
August 13, 2025 at 9:18 AM
When was the last time you witnessed - or better yet, participated in - a spontaneous mass performance of the popular folk song Why Are We Waiting?
Attention all designated holiday cooks - this one's for us
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on.ft.com/3ULqHtY
How to host dinner in a holiday rental — with recipes from Ben Lippett
[FREE TO READ] A Mediterranean feast that requires no spice rack or nice knives
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August 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Attention all designated holiday cooks - this one's for us
on.ft.com/3ULqHtY
on.ft.com/3ULqHtY
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Went to a proper restaurant for an Old School Lunch and on the table next to me close enough that I heard every word a food and drink PR was pitching a client about the launch of their new restaurant.
“We want to be in the FT”, they said.
“Well the FT doesn’t really do restaurants”, she said.
“We want to be in the FT”, they said.
“Well the FT doesn’t really do restaurants”, she said.
August 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Went to a proper restaurant for an Old School Lunch and on the table next to me close enough that I heard every word a food and drink PR was pitching a client about the launch of their new restaurant.
“We want to be in the FT”, they said.
“Well the FT doesn’t really do restaurants”, she said.
“We want to be in the FT”, they said.
“Well the FT doesn’t really do restaurants”, she said.
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Welcome to FT Edit! When the news is overwhelming, we bring you eight stories a day, chosen by editors, offering clarity, fresh perspectives, insight and inspiration — plus some extra treats! Explore more at www.ft.com/ftedit or, if you're reading on iOS, find us on the FT app: on.ft.com/44SHfGA
July 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Welcome to FT Edit! When the news is overwhelming, we bring you eight stories a day, chosen by editors, offering clarity, fresh perspectives, insight and inspiration — plus some extra treats! Explore more at www.ft.com/ftedit or, if you're reading on iOS, find us on the FT app: on.ft.com/44SHfGA
without singling out any critics, or any chart-topping podcasting duos, did anyone who recommended this show actually watch it??? or just read summary (bookshop! murders! mark gatiss!) and review accordingly? i am your prime sucker for this sort of stuff but it is so dull and unendearing
July 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
without singling out any critics, or any chart-topping podcasting duos, did anyone who recommended this show actually watch it??? or just read summary (bookshop! murders! mark gatiss!) and review accordingly? i am your prime sucker for this sort of stuff but it is so dull and unendearing
The spotify playlist attached to this will brighten even a v cloudy morning. Nun jazz! www.ft.com/content/a299...
What are the songs of summer?
Stephen Bush, Jemima Kelly, Martin Wolf and other FT writers choose the tracks that evoke festivals, first loves, sunshine and cricket
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July 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
The spotify playlist attached to this will brighten even a v cloudy morning. Nun jazz! www.ft.com/content/a299...