Skye Gyngell obituary

Skye Gyngell obituary

Influential Michelin-starred chef who championed using local ingredients and developed a simple, elegant style of cooking The pioneering chef Skye Gyngell, who has died of Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare skin cancer, aged 62, was the first Australian woman to win a Michelin star, an early supporter of the slow food movement, and a champion of charities such as StreetSmart and the Felix Project. Gyngell was a quiet radical. She came to public attention when she opened the Petersham Nurseries Café in south-west London in 2004. Until that point, she had been honing her own distinctive cooking personality that emphasised the quality of ingredients and the simplicity of their treatment and presentation. Her dishes were light, graceful and deceptively simple, but were founded on a serious understanding of how flavours and textures worked together, sometimes in surprising ways. Continue reading...

German president honours victims of Nazi bombing atrocity on Guernica visit

German president honours victims of Nazi bombing atrocity on Guernica visit

Frank-Walter Steinmeier travels to Basque town for remembrance ceremony marking ‘terrible crimes’ of 1937 Eighty-eight years after Luftwaffe pilots took part in the most infamous atrocity of the Spanish civil war, Germany’s president has visited the Basque town of Guernica to honour the victims of the Nazi bombing and to urge that the “terrible crimes” committed there are never forgotten. Hundreds of civilians were killed and hundreds more injured on 26 April 1937 when planes from the German Condor Legion, operating alongside aircraft from fascist Italy, spent hours bombing Guernica on market day. Adolf Hitler had loaned the Luftwaffe unit to Gen Francisco Franco’s nationalist forces to help them in their coup against the republican government, and to allow Nazi Germany’s pilots to practise the blitzkrieg tactics they would later use in the second world war. Continue reading...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – nightmarish take brings the brutal undercurrents roaring to the surface

A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – nightmarish take brings the brutal undercurrents roaring to the surface

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London Director Holly Race Roughan transposes the summer tale into the darkest of winters as the fairies’ feud over the stolen child leaves the snow smeared with blood Puck snatches the lovers’ breath from their bodies. They stop mid-sentence, floating under his spell, lanterns shining in the frozen night. Sergo Vares’ malevolent clown, dressed in half tux, half tutu, has chaos in his veins. In this wintery co-production between Headlong and the Globe, comedy and horror sit cheek by jowl, as director Holly Race Roughan conjures a nightmarish take on Shakespeare’s classic dream. Vares’ crow-like Puck, a nimble shapeshifter, may be the face of the dark deeds in this frosty landscape, but Michael Marcus’s Oberon is the vengeful controller, his every action designed to get his hands on the young girl (Pria Kalsi) in Titania’s care. By shifting the show’s centre of gravity to revolve around this changeling, Roughan brings the play’s brutal undercurrents roaring to the surface. Continue reading...

Injuries & suspensions update for Gameweek 13: Latest news on Antoine Semenyo, Hugo Ekitike and more

Injuries & suspensions update for Gameweek 13: Latest news on Antoine Semenyo, Hugo Ekitike and more

DREAM TEAM brings you all the latest injury, suspension and availability news ahead of Gameweek 13. Antoine Semenyo will be available to face Sunderland on Saturday, providing he does not aggravate anything in today's training session. The Bournemouth star, who features in 15.4% of teams, boasts the joint-highest points-per-game average among Dream Team midfielders. Justin...