House and Garden February 2022

RACHEL RODDY / WRITER AND CHEF Originally from London, Rome-based Rachel Roddy shares some of her recipes from page 125. This includes her favourite chicken dish with herbs and wine, which she describes as ‘everyday alchemy’. It was not until a year after she had moved to Rome in 2006 that she noticed her diaries and notes were almost entirely about food and so she began her blog Rachel Eats. Although she has written three books, the first, Five Quarters (Headline Home, £30), is still important to her: ‘It was the culmination of 10 years of living in Italy, and unselfconscious creative blogging.’ In 2015, it won her an André Simon Food and Drink Book Award. Rachel now writes a weekly column for The Guardian called A Kitchen in Rome. Which ingredient…

When it comes to clothes, while I’m not an ardent follower of fashion – and don’t necessarily see a need to be – it niggles me that the five-year-old dress I have donned for dinner, or the 10-year-old pair of jeans I’m wearing for coffee with a friend might be letting me down in the fashion stakes. Indeed, until only recently, last year’s clothes were too often relegated to the back of the cupboard to avoid any potential pitfalls. Luckily, now, with sustainability at the forefront of our minds, an old dress is more acceptable. But I’ve often wondered why, when it comes to interiors, the need to be on trend doesn’t apply in the same way. Frankly, it’s the last thing I want. If a certain new lampshade or wallpaper…

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