My new best lockdown pal is Alison Roman the carefree cook from Los Angeles, writes ALEXANDRA SHULMAN (pictured)
My new lockdown friend is an American chef and social-media star called Alison Roman. If our sultry, curvaceous Nigella is the Elizabeth Taylor of the culinary scene, Los Angeles-born Alison, 35, is the Taylor Swift.
With her jaunty ponytail, red lipstick, and who cares? self-deprecating shrugs, she is despised by large numbers of foodies for being too girl next door and too pedestrian in her cooking. I, though, can t get enough of her.
I love the way she has a tiny kitchen (in Brooklyn, where she s now based) which I know is really hers and not a studio set because I ve seen a video tour of it, complete with freestanding cooker and spider plants.
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8 Feb 2021
A leading health expert in Britain has warned that government restrictions on large public gatherings will have to be in place for the “next few years” because of the Chinese coronavirus.
Professor Tim Spector of King’s College London said that he cannot foresee Britons being free to attend music festivals or large weddings in the coming years.
“I think we need to get used to that and that will allow us to do the things we really want to do more easily and more readily,” Prof Spector told Times Radio, adding that he “can’t see us suddenly having another Cheltenham Festival with no regulations again”.
A small-scale trial found that the Oxford jab appears to have little impact on mild or moderate cases of the South African variant, but scientists say they're working hard to have a booster jab ready by autumn.