Tanya Gold

London

Journalist at Freelance

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Articles

Food that’s both serious and serene: Babbo reviewed

2 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Tanya Gold

After a week in which Israel triumphed at the Eurovision Song Contest with second place – western Europe is for them, eastern Europe slightly less so (plus ça change) – I review Babbo, the new neighbourhood restaurant in St John’s Wood. Restaurants tend to drift in, settle and drift onwards here.
Food that’s both serious and serene: Babbo reviewed

2 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Tanya Gold

After a week in which Israel triumphed at the Eurovision Song Contest with second place – western Europe is for them, eastern Europe slightly less so (plus ça change) – I review Babbo, the new neighbourhood restaurant in St John’s Wood. Restaurants tend to drift in, settle and drift onwards here.
Everything Ottolenghi should be but isn’t: Delamina Townhouse reviewed

1 month ago | spectator.com.au | Tanya Gold

Delamina Townhouse is on Tavistock Street in Covent Garden. It is an Israeli restaurant, and a very fine and subtle one, though Israeli restaurants are rebranding as ‘eastern Mediterranean’ these days due to growing Jew hate on London’s streets, which fills me with rage. (I am not talking about criticism of Israel.
The trial that kept us safe from Holocaust denial – at least for one generation - The Jewish Chronicle

1 month ago | thejc.com | Tanya Gold

Antisemitism is a mental illness, and no one embodies that better than Irving, except perhaps Adolf Hitler, the dream father who never knew he existed. Irving’s intellectual career was, among other things, an act of trauma. We should thank him for suing Lipstadt, even if it is bitter. It made us safe from Holocaust denial for one generation. Is it possible to feel nostalgia for those days?
On the Hobbit trail: tracking Tolkien from Birmingham to Oxford to Switzerland. By Tanya Gold

1 month ago | theoldie.co.uk | Tanya Gold

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, the philologist and author of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, died 50 years ago in Bournemouth on 2nd September 1973, aged 81. His wife, Edith, loved Bournemouth’s bourgeois placidity. She was tired of intellectuals, having lived in Oxford for 40 years. In 1968, when he was 76 and she 79, she persuaded him to move there.
Runcorn has lost all hope

1 month ago | unherd.com | Tanya Gold

Keir StarmerLabour PartyPoliticsRuncornUK In the Ferry Boat pub in Runcorn, yards from the River Mersey, they are naming broken promises like jilted lovers. “Labour promises everything,” says a man, “and when they get in it is exactly as it was in the beginning. Veterans sleep in tents. Muslims pray in streets. Natives can’t get operations. Immigrants get them straight away. It’s easy over here. Free this, free that. If World War Three starts who is going to fight for us?
A memoir through kitchen utensils? It's extraordinary

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Tanya Gold

Before I sat down to write this review, I took the dog for a walk and bumped into my neighbour; she had been ill last week, and I had taken round a plate of our roast dinner. Just as I was about to ask after her health, she grabbed me to ask the secret of my roast potatoes. Was it the parboiling? I ventured. (No, she always parboiled.) Was it the inch of fat?
Northern Europe doesn’t get salads: Claro reviewed

1 month ago | spectator.com.au | Tanya Gold

Claro is at 12 Waterloo Place, St James’s, and, when I tried to find out what it used to be – it has the energy of a bank – I found an advert from the Crown Estate offering the lease for a ‘retail or wellness opportunity’. 12 Waterloo Place was pictured in pen and ink, with a woman holding a yoga mat idling past, and a woman in cycling shorts hanging back.
Northern Europe doesn’t get salads: Claro reviewed

1 month ago | spectator.co.uk | Tanya Gold

Claro is at 12 Waterloo Place, St James’s, and, when I tried to find out what it used to be – it has the energy of a bank – I found an advert from the Crown Estate offering the lease for a ‘retail or wellness opportunity’. 12 Waterloo Place was pictured in pen and ink, with a woman holding a yoga mat idling past, and a woman in cycling shorts hanging back. I wonder why the Crown Estate is pushing wellness, which I think is being rich, bored and female while not dying.
From tutting and cosy crime to losing at the World Cup... as Gloucestershire cheese rollers win international recognition, TANYA GOLD reveals what makes us truly British | Daily Mail Online

1 month ago | dailymail.co.uk | Tanya Gold

In anxious times, it’s essential to have a national culture to unite around. Almost everyone agrees with that, but – and this is the perilous part – we cannot always agree on what that national culture should be. It’s almost 13 years since the opening ceremony of the London Olympics, when it was summarised as the NHS, the Spice Girls, London taxis and, thanks to the inclusion of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Victorian infrastructure.