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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.

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Rediscovering the Horizon: The Appeal of Sailing in Midlife
Travel

Learning to Sail in Midlife: Adventure Without the Reinvention Cliché

Sailing is often wrapped in the language of reinvention, especially when it is marketed to people in midlife. The reality can be more...

Curating the Essential Travel Kit for a Seamless Escape
Travel

Packing Light for a British Getaway: What Actually Earns a Place in the Bag

Packing advice has a habit of turning into shopping advice. A supposedly essential travel kit quickly becomes a list of gadgets, organisers and...

Editor's Pick

Culture

The Light Opens in Durham With a Major Exhibition on Light

A new cultural venue opens in Durham on 22 August, bringing contemporary art, local history and a restored museum building back into public...

Culture

Terrane Turns Jewellery Into a Map of Place and Memory

Amid the noise of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a small jewellery exhibition in Stockbridge is asking visitors to look at landscape in a...

People

Small Talk in Britain and Why Brief Encounters Still Matter

Small talk is easy to underestimate because, by definition, very little appears to happen. A remark about the weather, a few words with...

Home

Community Gardens and the Shared Life Growing Between the Beds

Community gardens are easy to romanticise. A few raised beds, a shed and a line of beans can quickly become shorthand for neighbourliness,...

Style

Personal Style After 40: Dressing With More Freedom, Not More Rules

Style after 40 does not need a rescue plan. It also does not arrive with a universal set of rules about hemlines, colour,...

Food

Home Baking and the Everyday Pleasure of Making Something From Scratch

Home baking does not need to be described as a revival, a form of therapy or an antidote to modern life to be...