Esther Addley

London

Senior News Writer at The Guardian

@Guardian

Articles

Food and freedom: exhibition charts radical history of gardening in Britain

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Esther Addley

“Being able to grow your own food is one of the most radical ways that you can express your freedom, your sovereignty, your liberation,” says Valerie Goode, the founder and chief executive of the Coco Collective, a Black-led community gardening organisation in south London. “When you leave your food production in the hands of other people, you are leaving your health, your wellbeing, your sense of identity … in the hands of other people.
Cornish tin was sold all over Europe 3,000 years ago, say archaeologists

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Esther Addley

In about 1300BC, the major civilisations of the eastern Mediterranean made a cultural and technological leap forward when they began using bronze much more widely for weapons, tools and jewellery. While a form of the metal had previously been used in smaller quantities by the Mycenaeans and Egyptians among others, bronze was now abundant – but how?
‘My moment of glory’: Nicolas Cage lookalikes assemble in London

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Esther Addley

On a sunny, bustling late afternoon outside a cinema in Soho, central London, more than a hundred people have gathered, a number of whom sort of, if you squint, look a little bit like the actor Nicolas Cage. There is a Raising Arizona Cage, moustachioed and with a Hawaiian shirt. There are several Con Air Cages in white vests, one of whom has a toy bunny in a small cardboard box.
How to survive a power outage

2 weeks ago | aol.co.uk | Esther Addley

If the lights went out in your home or office, on your train home, or in your local supermarket – would you know what to do? That question became more urgent this week, after almost the entire Iberian peninsula suffered a mass electricity blackout, leaving tens of millions across Spain and Portugal without power.
Cash, emergency food and wind-up radios: How to survive a power outage

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Esther Addley

If the lights went out in your home or office, on your train home, or in your local supermarket – would you know what to do? That question became more urgent this week, after almost the entire Iberian peninsula suffered a mass electricity blackout, leaving tens of millions across Spain and Portugal without power.
Inside the dirtiest race in Olympic history: ‘It wasn’t fair. I wasn’t on a level playing field’

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Esther Addley

The tunnel in which athletes wait before they enter a stadium ahead of a major race is “by no means a friendly place to be”, says Lisa Dobriskey – and as a former Team GB athlete who won Commonwealth gold and world championship silver at 1500m, she has stood in enough of them to know. “Different people handle it differently,” she says. “Some people are really relaxed and friendly; other people just look right through you. It’s scary.
Arguing with your partner? Done the right way it can be a skill for couples, say therapists

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Esther Addley

Why can’t the dirty plates go straight into the dishwasher? Whose turn is it to pick up the kids? And why do you insist on doing that thing you do when you know how much it annoys me? No honestly, don’t worry, I’m fine. Perhaps – if you are part of a long-term couple – that kind of conversation sounds familiar. Or perhaps you are George and Amal Clooney, and you never, ever argue.
Videotape sculptures and wartime paintings among Turner prize shortlist

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Esther Addley

An artist who creates swirling sculptures out of fabric and old videocassette tape, and another who installed huge paintings evoking wartime trauma in the genteel rooms of Blenheim Palace, have been shortlisted for this year’s Turner Prize. Nnena Kalu, a Scottish-born, London-based artist, and Mohammed Sami, who fled his native Iraq as a refugee, have been chosen alongside Rene Matić and Zadie Xa to compete for the contemporary art prize.
everything you need to know, from grind size to roast

1 month ago | msn.com | Esther Addley

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The science behind the perfect cup of coffee: everything you need to know, from grind size to roast

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Esther Addley |Felicity Cloake

There is an episode of the hit TV series Breaking Bad in which Walter White, high school chemistry teacher turned drug kingpin, meets a new colleague in front of a tangle of clamps, pipes and slowly dripping flasks. When the other character lets him taste what he has been brewing, White is stunned. “My God, that is the best coffee I’ve ever tasted,” he says.