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The Robin Ellis Interview

Keith Eckstein — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 04:00:35 +0000

When I first came across www.robin-ellis.net, I was immediately entranced…. Mainly, I guess, because Robin loves cooking and his passion for real, good food comes over with every post on his blog. I was so impressed that I resolved to review the site for your benefit at the soonest opportunity! However, I then discovered that not [...]

The Marilyn Z. Tomlins Interview

Keith Eckstein — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 04:00:06 +0000

When I reviewed Marilyn Z. Tomlins’ blog on the 20th of September 2010 I mentioned that she has written a book. I found that she had also written about a nice recipe for Espadon (swordfish) which is in a post that also details fish fed on the urine of pregnant women! I remember wondering, at the time, [...]

The Kimberley Lovato Interview

Keith Eckstein — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 04:00:11 +0000

On Saturday I mentioned www.EdibleIdioms.com, a site that I had come across that had tickled my fancy.

I felt that the author of www.EdibleIdioms.com might, in fact, be rather an interesting person.

It turns out she is!

I found out that Kimberley Lovato is a freelance writer and author who just recently landed in San Francisco, after six years in Europe.

Her travel and lifestyle writing has appeared in loads of posh publications. For more details you ought to take a look at her website, the cunningly named www.kimberleylovato.com

Kimberley also has a very interesting blog at www.abroadinbelgium.com which, being set in Belgium rather than France won't be reviewed here, I'm sad to say.

But, more importantly, Kimberley has written a book!

Michael Briant interview

Keith Eckstein — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:00:46 +0000

Michael Briant is the man largely responsible for my spending most Saturday evenings of my younger days (from the age of 11 to about 21) hiding behind the sofa, most Saturday nights sleeping with the lights on and most Sunday mornings getting spanked for wetting the bed the night before!

You see, Michael Briant directed some of the most frightening episodes of Doctor Who that ever saw the light of day. There is a whole generation of people, now in their forties and fifties, who will unashamably wet themselves in public if anyone creeps up behind them and shouts... "EXTERMINATE!"

And this is largely Michael's fault.

The Jenny Colgan interview

Keith Eckstein — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:00:08 +0000

Born in Scotland, celebrated chick-lit author, Jenny Colgan studied at Edinburgh University before working for six years in the health service.

During this time she moonlighted as a stand-up comic.

On her website Jenny explains that "I live mostly in France, which sounds show-offy but if you saw our house you would realise it really isn’t.

My husband Andrew is a marine engineer and works a lot round here, and we have three children.

Wallace is four and likes calamari, trampolining and making loud announcements about just how he will run the world when he is Spiderman; Michael-Francis is nearly two and likes singing lalala, tucking bears under his arms and peering dubiously at new food, and Delphie is brand new and likes sleeping and the way the sun moves across the tree leaves."

Fair enough! On to the important stuff.....

The Karen Wheeler interview

Keith Eckstein — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:52:20 +0000

Award-winning fashion and beauty writer, Karen Wheeler is a former Fashion Editor of The Mail on Sunday. She has also worked as a freelance and regular contributor to the FT’s How To Spend It magazine for over a decade. She’s won the prestigious Jasmine Literary Award for writing about perfume three times and generally specialises [...]

The John Dummer interview

Keith Eckstein — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:00:29 +0000

John Dummer is probably best known for being the drummer for Darts (also writing ‘Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love’, ‘How Many Nights’ and the truly wonderful ‘Late Last Night’.) For those youngsters amongst the readership of aTasteOfGarlic, Darts was a nine-strong, energetic doo-wop group whose brand of visual excitement and tight harmonies earned them [...]

The Carol Drinkwater interview

Keith Eckstein — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:00:04 +0000

Carol Drinkwater is the actress who, for many, is best known for her award winning role as Helen Herriot in the television series… All Creatures Great and Small. Carol is, however, also a successful author who had written many books including the wonderfully interesting Olive Farm series. All of these are available from all good [...]

The Joanne Harris interview

Keith Eckstein — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:48:02 +0000

Joanne Harris is the internationally acclaimed author of… Chocolat, Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange, Coastliners, The French Kitchen, The French Market and a handful of other books. Her books are available from all good bookshops, or from the carousel Amazon bookshop thingy, somewhere on this page. She has a very nice web site [...]

The Stephen Clarke interview

Keith Eckstein — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:11:46 +0000

Stephen Clarke is the world-renowned author of A Year in the Merde, Merde Actually, Merde Happens, Dial M for Merde and Talk to the Snail. He narrowly missed out on this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature but is a sure bet for next year’s award. He has been romantically linked to Vanessa Paradis, Emmanuelle Béart, [...]