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“Stella came off the train from Scotland smelling of goats,” Isabella Blow chortled down the phone to me. It was the summer of 1993 and Stella Tennant had been scouted for the December British
Vogue “London Babes” story to be shot by Steven Meisel. The portfolio was being orchestrated by Isabella Blow and stylist Joe McKenna and they were searching for striking bluebloods with Meisel-level allure. The wide-eyed, gangly young writer Plum Sykes had also been enlisted on the hunt and remembers the “tiny little passport photo” that was submitted to Isabella, of Stella with her septum ring. “She was remarkable looking,” Sykes recalls, “she came in and she was just so incredibly cool that I was intimidated. She was so level headed and not vain, she wasn’t grand, she was just this really cool beautiful country turnip.” Sykes continues, “She looked like a model but was very grounded. She just looked
The Best 2020 Cookbooks to Give, Recommended by Cookbook Authors
Nine cookbooks to give as gifts this year, from the Strategist Dec 10, 2020, 3:51pm EST
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This year, many of us have become the home cooks we never thought we could be (whether by choice or by necessity). Keep that enthusiasm going into 2021 with some fresh culinary inspiration; because while the pandemic derailed many things, the release of excellent new cookbooks was not one of them. To find the latest releases worth giving, from instant classics on the art of baking to one of the year’s most moving cooking memoirs, we asked our favorite cookbook authors to recommend a new cookbook they’d give as a gift and then we asked the authors of those books for