Prue Leith Journalist Profile

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Roast beef, and lemons fresh from the trees – that was Christmas in my South African home | Prue Leith

Dec 23, 2024 | theguardian.com | Prue Leith

My childhood home was in South Africa. My parents adored each other and life for my two brothers and me was loving and carefree. Mum was a well-known actor and producer, and my father was a successful businessman. We had a big house in a three-acre garden, complete with huge old trees to climb, a scruffy lawn to play football on, a swimming pool and a tennis court. Today that whole white, privileged, almost colonial life under apartheid is embarrassing to admit to, but my memories are deeply happy.
Prue’s News: My Technicolor dream machine - The Oldie

Dec 4, 2024 | theoldie.co.uk | Prue Leith

"The Oldie is an incredible magazine - perhaps the best magazine in the world right now" Graydon Carter, founder of Air Mail and former Editor of Vanity Fair Give The Oldie for Xmas and save 50% Subscribe Regulars | By Prue Leith I do find what the brain gets up to at night most odd. I don’t think I am remotely artistic, but I have the weirdest dreams, especially when I am only half-asleep.
I feel it in my guy. My husband is greedier - and healthier - than me, by Prue Leith.

Nov 25, 2024 | theoldie.co.uk | Prue Leith

I’d heard all about Dr Tim Spector’s fashionable theory: what matters more than calorie-counting is the bacteria in your gut. I cook from scratch, don’t buy junk and eat lots of veg. So I’d resisted joining Zoe, Spector’s personalised nutrition programme, to find out about my microbiome and how to improve it. It looked to me too much like a neat way to part body-obsessed rich young women from their money.
What book has Prue Leith tried twice and still can't stand?

Nov 14, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Prue Leith

. . . are you reading now? I usually have two books on the go and right now they include Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers, a perfect light read but a deep and stirring novel about a spinster in the 1950s – trapped by her bad-tempered, widowed mother – eventually tasting the joy and hope that falling in love brings. The writing is remarkable and the characters so real they live with you after you close the book. My other book is She Speaks! by Dame Harriet Walter.
The Little-Known French Pineapple Dessert Beloved By Prue Leith - Tasting Table

Oct 15, 2024 | tastingtable.com | Prue Leith

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Little-Known French Pineapple Dessert Beloved By Prue Leith Fred Duval/Shutterstock There is an art to tasty meals that use just a handful of ingredients, and the French are the Michelangelos (Or should we say the Matisses?) of turning simple ingredients into artful dishes.
Prue Leith: how to impress guests (with no effort)

Oct 3, 2024 | thetimes.com | Prue Leith

It’s taken me a long life to know that when it comes to cooking, hard graft has to be worth the effort. If you love making puff pastry from scratch, or wouldn’t dream of using frozen mashed potatoes, good on you. But honestly, the ready-made versions are often as good as the homemade variety, and they are a whole lot less trouble. So if you are short of time or just don’t like cooking, cheating is fine. I cheat all the time, and I love cooking. I’ve cooked almost every day for the past 65 years.
Why I dressed head to toe in latex at 84

Sep 15, 2024 | msn.com | Prue Leith

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Dame Prue Leith: Why I dressed head to toe in latex at 84

Sep 15, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Prue Leith

Why did I do it? Because I adore the designers – and ‘never say no’ is my motto Credit: getty Two days ago, I got dressed, well, barely dressed, in a skintight black latex number held together with corset-style red cord.
My Hotel Hell - Prue Leith

Aug 19, 2024 | theoldie.co.uk | Prue Leith

I’m getting seriously grumpy in my old age, especially about hotels. I’ve recently been on the road with my one-woman tour and have slept in 30-odd inns round the UK. Mostly, the experience has been miles better than it would have been 20 years ago. But the little problems – that could so easily be put right but aren’t – bug me. Do you think hotel owners or managers ever sleep a night in their own establishments? Surely, if they did, most of my niggles would get cured next day.
We oldies can’t help but think of death

Aug 9, 2024 | spectator.co.uk | Prue Leith

Text size Line Spacing Comments Share Share Prue Leith We oldies can’t help but think of death Linkedin Messenger Email I used to think a lot about Switzerland and how to accrue enough morphine to top myself when the time comes. But yay, at last, an assisted dying law seems likely and I can stop plotting. No one talks about death. But oldies think about it all the time, not deliberately – it just inserts itself into everything. I’d like to write another trilogy, but will I finish it? Doubt if...