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As princes Harry and William prepare to unveil the statue of their mother at Kensington Palace, I can disclose that a headstone has finally been installed to mark the spot where Princess Diana’s larger-than-life stepmother, Raine Spencer, is buried seven miles away.
The simple headstone, engraved with a gold coronet and the inscription ‘Countess Raine Spencer 1929-2016’, has just been placed in North Sheen Cemetery, South-West London, five years after her death.
‘She was elegant and unforgettable, but also very much a person who loved family,’ her daughter, Charlotte di Carcaci, tells me.
‘We are so pleased to have her gravestone in place: simple, elegant and a memorial to the love and affection in which she was so widely held.’
Phaidon’s latest cookbook sees 20 leading chefs choose 100 emerging chefs to present a menu.
Today’s Special tasks 20 well-established chefs from across the globe to select five emerging chefs each and is a sort-of sequel to Phaidon’s oddly-titled 2009 tome Coco. Coincidentally or otherwise, some of the chefs that were tipped by leading chefs back then are now doing the tipping themselves, including our own Skye Gyngell.
The 100 chefs selected are impressively diverse, proving that in 2021 one doesn’t have to look hard to find interesting people from a wide range of geographies and backgrounds creating brilliant food. Even more commendably, over a third of the chefs selected are female (taking into account the handful of woman/man chef duos featured in the book). 50% would clearly be better, but given the lack of representation of women in top kitchens it’s a step in the right direction.
feed people practically obliterated. But we ve all got to eat, and one day (hopefully soon) we ll be able to do that in the presence of friends, family, and really great professional cooks. Until then, our only recourse is cookbooks, and this one hopes to capture our culinary imaginations with the work of up-and-coming chefs. Prepare to be inspired.
The book: Today s Special: 20 Leading Chefs Choose 100 Emerging Chefs Who will love it? If in normal life you were found poring over restaurant reviews in the weekend papers, dragging your friends to obscure food pop-ups on the other side of town, and were the person everyone would ask for dinner recommendations, this is for you. It s a celebration of promising chefs who are already making a name for themselves in the industry, but are worthy of more attention - all picked by well established food titans (like Yotam Ottolenghi and Skye Gyngell). The food alone might be enough of a draw for you, in which case, there s lots of i
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