Tom grew up in a large family in rural Shropshire where meals were always an event. He trained briefly as a chef before realising he preferred writing about food to cooking it professionally. After a stint at a catering trade magazine he moved into consumer journalism, contributing to food and home titles across the UK. He has a particular fondness for regional British cooking — the kind that rarely makes it onto television — and writes about interiors with the same appetite he brings to a good meal. He lives in Leeds with his wife and their rescue greyhound.
Sailing is often wrapped in the language of reinvention, especially when it is marketed to people in midlife. The reality can be more...
ByTom GlenisterJuly 9, 2026Packing advice has a habit of turning into shopping advice. A supposedly essential travel kit quickly becomes a list of gadgets, organisers and...
ByTom GlenisterJuly 5, 2026A new cultural venue opens in Durham on 22 August, bringing contemporary art, local history and a restored museum building back into public...
August 22, 2026Amid the noise of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a small jewellery exhibition in Stockbridge is asking visitors to look at landscape in a...
August 9, 2026Small talk is easy to underestimate because, by definition, very little appears to happen. A remark about the weather, a few words with...
July 29, 2026Community gardens are easy to romanticise. A few raised beds, a shed and a line of beans can quickly become shorthand for neighbourliness,...
July 28, 2026Style after 40 does not need a rescue plan. It also does not arrive with a universal set of rules about hemlines, colour,...
July 27, 2026Home baking does not need to be described as a revival, a form of therapy or an antidote to modern life to be...
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