welcome.
December means good times are coming (hope, hope, hoping nothing scuppers plans last-minute), and I bring you tidings of joy with this twinkle-filled issue . In between all that cooking, pour a snifter of sloe gin, sit and enjoy festive musings by novelist Sebastian Faulks, then flick on a few pages to Diana Henry’s triumph of an interview with Nigel Slater. How heartening it was to discover two things: Diana gets nervous about cooking (or, rather, baking) for Nigel; and he gets panicky when people tell him they love cooking his recipes (worried in case they don’t work... bless him). I’m glad I’m not the only worrier. When I’m at someone’s house and they tell me they’re cooking a delicious. recipe, I feel glad but responsible, especially if I spot recipe-tweaking…
