Cooking with Mrs Conetta: A surreal holiday moment, and a simple but delicious beef stew OUR new columnist, Lee Conetta, is Glasgow food royalty, with many years’ experience helping to run one of the city’s biggest restaurant groups. Each fortnight in Times Out, she will share memories of her life less ordinary, and the food she loves to cook. This week, Mrs Conetta demonstrates the value (sometimes) of living a little dangerously and rustles up a very simple but delicious carne patate (beef and potato stew.) THE stories I share often revolve around the holidays my late husband Joe and I took with our children.
Glasgow restaurateur Lee Conetta at home near Lanark. STY .Pic Gordon Terris/Glasgow Times.18/11/20. EVERYONE has a story to tell. Over the decades, running some of Glasgow’s best-loved restaurants, Lee Conetta has heard her fair share of them. “I learned a lot working in the east end, at the Briggait, in Cambuslang – all over the city,” she explains. “I met many wonderful characters, and I learned a lot about Glasgow and her people. Most of all, I learned every person is a life, every person has a story to tell.” Meet the woman behind the Glasgow Times’ exciting new food column, Cooking with Mrs Conetta. Each fortnight, starting tomorrow (Thursday, January 28) she will be sharing one of her favourite recipes with our readers alongside some moving, funny anecdotes about life as part of the city’s ‘food royalty’.