The Lady Magazine

29 August 2014

So, what’s your favourite recipe? Come on, you must have one: the dish you return to again and again. Perhaps it’s a family classic passed down to you through the generations; a surprise supper you rustled up once out of a can of tuna, a jar of homemade marmalade and a kilo of shiitake mushrooms, or something as simple as beans on toast – spiced up with a single secret ingredient. Well, inside, some rather big names reveal theirs for charity. You’ll discover Emma Thompson’s sausage and cabbage bake, Meryl Streep’s wheatberry salad, and Barbara Broccoli’s fabulous chocolate celebration cake – although we’re not sure whether the Bond fi lm producer has ever shared a slice with 007. Do let us know how you get on with them – and don’t forget to send us your favourites. We’ll publish the most delicious later in the year. There’s also television presenter and vintage afi cionado Dawn O’Porter on why we should treasure classic styles and fi ght throwaway fashion; a celebration of the glamorous Lost Girls, the society beauties who partied through the Blitz and beyond, and VG Lee’s hilarious account of the day she (mistakenly) believed her elderly neighbour, Ted, had gone missing. We reveal how to pen a eulogy, the best way to navigate a second wedding and even how the humble turnip changed history. Well, we did promise you the odd surprise. Very best wishes, Matt Warren, Editor ‘