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CONTENTS FEBRUARY 2011

FEATURES 7

EDITOR’S PICK

The must-see events of this month

12 WE LOVE ROCK N’ ROLL…

As does Mick Rock, our lead interviewee this month

16 GARDEN VIEW

The history of London’s renowned jewellery quarter

26 I WANNA BE ADORNED Statement Pieces for SS11

33 GLOBAL GLAM

Have fun with prints, interesting fabrics beading and layering

36 SCHOOL OF WOK

The basics of Chinese Cooking with Jeremy Pang

54 CHAPEL CLUB EXCLUSIVE

We catch the band at Kentish Town Forum, just before the release of their debut album

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EDITOR’S LETTER

ell, no sooner have we finished saying ‘Happy New Year’ than we’re saying ‘Happy Chinese New Year’! And to celebrate that fact, this issue brings you a Food Spotlight on the School of Wok Cookery School with the delightful Jeremy Pang. For those who want to know more about Chinese cooking, Jeremy is holding a free introductory class on Upper Street’s Intrepid Travel on February 8, which we can’t recommend highly enough. But that’s not the only taste of the Orient we have in store this month: our Behind The Scenes feature takes a look at what goes on at Sushi Workshops, and provides yet another example of how much we love our food here at The City & Angel! Let’s not forget, however, that February is the month for lovers. With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, be sure to check out our beauty tips before heading to any romantic rendezvous: whether you’re out on a blind date or having a cosy meal with the hubby, our advice is to make the most of it: fix up and look sharp! To that end, we hope you enjoy our ‘I Wanna Be Adorned’ jewellery fashion shoot (p26) as well as our historical overview of London’s famous jewellery centre, Hatton Garden (p16) - complete with some very handy tips on how to get the most bling for your buck. Hopefully it will prove helpful for any guys out there planning to pop the question on Valentine’s Day itself! Our celebrity interview this month sees us talking in depth to legendary music photographer, Mick Rock, “the man who shot the seventies,” about his love of music, his successful career and befriending David Bowie. Last but not least - and for those of you who have not made good on your New Year healthy-eating plans (you know who you are) - a detox might well be what’s needed to kick-start them again. See page (22) for an account of my experience on the Nosh Detox plan, which delivers fantastically yummy fresh fruit shakes and nutritious, calorie-conscious meals direct to your door. With that said, all that remains is to note (with a good dose of smugness) that we are close to having made it through the winter (pats on backs all round). We look forward to sharing a bright and cheerful spring with you; until then, we wish you all Kung Hei Fat Choi and a Happy Valentine’s Day!

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February sees the release of Efterklang’s ‘Magic Chairs.’ The band have been busy working on this, their third album as well as the film ‘An Island’ with French director, Vincent Moon, shot on an island in the Danish countryside. This will be screened at the live show at Scala. Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, N1 9NL, 020 7833 2022

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Comprising a symposium of talks, meditation and reflection as well as food to share and a Full Moon ritual, this series of events at North London’s Buddhist Centre marks Buddha’s death. The centre also offers yoga and a wide-range of therapies. For more information on festivals and pujas, please see the website.

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THE BEST VIEW OF HEAVEN IS FROM HELL, BRAN SYMONDSON, 28TH JANUARY – 20TH FEBRUARY

As a serving soldier in the British Army, Bran Symondson became fascinated by the Afghan National Police and their culture – he returned on a special commission for The Sunday Times Magazine to document their daily struggle in the fight to defeat the Taliban. The images provide an unparalleled look at the relationship between the British Army and the ANP. Idea generation Gallery, 11 Chance Street, E2 7JB, 020 7749 6850

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The successes of over 100 children and young people from Islington schools were celebrated at Islington’s Achievers’ Day. The annual event held by Cambridge Education @ Islington and Islington Council, recognises the hard work of all Islington pupils and acknowledges the support and commitment of parents, carers, teachers and school staff. A range of achievements were rewarded, from pupils who have progressed well at school despite facing adversity, to thriving artists and those with a special sporting talent. Jermaine Jackman, from Islington Arts and Media School, was recognised for his remarkable singing and song writing skills. He competed

SEARCH FOR ISLINGTON’S NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE John Foster CBE, the council’s present chief executive, retires in May after 40 years’ service to the public sector. Council leader Catherine West says: “We are a new and ambitious administration. One of our key aims is to make Islington fairer

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in the Blast Beats competition at the O2 and also helped to organise a concert to raise funds for the Haiti earthquake appeal. “Islington schools are getting better and better. We’re helping young people to reach their potential and I was so impressed by the stories I heard and the level of talent displayed” Cllr Richard Watts. JOHN FOSTER, CBE

and reduce inequality in our diverse borough. This will be no mean feat against the backdrop of the substantial government cuts that we are facing, but the right candidate won’t shy away from this challenge.” “Islington is the fourth most deprived borough in London. We have

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ROCK LIKE THIS Helen Baron gets an insight into the mind of one of the world’s most legendary music photographers…

ick Rock is a character, that’s for sure. Talking to him, you forget you’re conducting an interview.You sort of just… listen, as he draws you in, speaking openly and expressively about what it is that he does and how it came to be. To those who don’t recognise the name, Mick Rock is a figure almost as legendary as the artists he’s photographed: a list that reads like a Who’sWho of every bona fide pop idol of the last 40 years – Syd Barrett, David Bowie, Lady Gaga and Snoop Dogg among them. He is often referred to as ‘the man who shot the seventies’. Rock is an expat who now lives in New York City, along with his wife and daughter, a model. I call him on a drizzly London evening, and his phone manner is far removed from the rock and roll stereotype his career might have had me expect. His first question – because Rock likes to converse rather than just fielding enquiries – concerns the London weather: perhaps he knows a Londoner likes nothing more than to gripe about the rain. He’s instantly charming, and I can see he’s attempting

to put me at my ease. It’s my first glimpse of his skill as a photographer. No sooner have I said hello then he’s actively eliciting a genuine interaction. The spur for our interview is his latest exhibition, which took place in January at Shoreditch’s Idea Generation Gallery. Entitled Mick Rock: Rock Music, the show coincides with the publication of Rock’s new book Exposed: The Faces of Rock ‘n’ Roll. I ask what fans can expect, and am assured that the tome includes a host of previously unpublished material alongside some of Rock’s most iconic and enduring of music portraits. Rock’s enthusiasm for the project – both exhibition and book – fizzes down the transatlantic phone line, and he’s keen to remind me that this isn’t just a library of pictures of glam rock and punk legends – the two musical movements with which he has been most frequently associated.

Instead, Exposed covers a broad swathe of artists from Rock’s earliest days right up to the present. Of course, there is (in Rock’s own words) ‘a decent ladling of seventies stuff’. And why not, when your portraits of Debbie Harry (of Blondie), Lou Reed and The Ramones are some of the most perfect in the pantheon? But there are fresher faces too, as well as some new looks at veteran performers. Rock can’t say which is his favourite of all the images on show, or in the book, conceding that it is always difficult to choose – “People often want to hark back to my Syd Barrett photos because, of course, he had a certain mystique and charm – he left the business so early. But really my favourite depends on which day of the week it is, or which month of the year. Pictures are like the lady friends in one’s life: you go, ‘I love them all’. Obviously my wife is the number

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DAVID BOWIE AND MICK RONSON, LUNCH ON TRAIN, 1973

300 people, Rock recognised in Bowie’s flamboyant stage persona, Ziggy Stardust, the makings of something special. The photographer – then supplementing his meagre income by writing articles for music magazines – interviewed Bowie, shot some of the show and ended up kick-starting an informal partnership that would change both their lives. Ziggy Stardust rose to undreamt-of stardom and popularity, Bowie was hailed as the personification of the seventies’ counter-cultural zeitgeist, and – in Mick Rock’s own words – ‘life was never the same again’. What was it, then, that led a promising Cambridge student to throw caution to the wind to ride the rock ‘n’ roll rollercoaster – and how did Rock stay so incredibly ahead of the competition (his photographs of icons like Lou Reed and Blondie often stem from the days when the artists in question were anything but feted by the masses)? Rock attributes his success not to any prophetic gift, but to a simple music fan’s quest to find something new and exciting: ‘a new experience, a new sound, a new aesthetic’. It’s an approach that has ensured he has stayed at the cutting edge throughout his

IF YOU GET IN THE RING WITH ME, YOU’RE GOING TO ENGAGE! I DON’T IMPOSE MYSELF ON MY SUBJECTS BUT I AM RELENTLESS AND THERE IS A SERIOUSNESS OF INTENT one these days,” he’s quick to add. “Otherwise I’ll get a thick ear!” I’m happy that Syd Barrett has come up, because that’s where Mick Rock’s career began. A fellow student at Cambridge, where Rock was studying Modern Languages and Literature, the two met and soon became friends. For the first time in his life, Rock felt moved to pick up a camera, and with no technical knowledge, no training and no preconceptions, started to capture Barrett’s burgeoning career on film. The pair’s working relationship culminated in the book Psychedelic Renegades, which covers the period

1969-71 and features the famous photo session in and around Barrett’s London flat. One of these images was used for Barrett’s first solo album, today widely regarded as a classic: The Madcap Laughs. But it was another sixties genius who was to raise Rock’s profile to the level of the subjects of his pictures. It was 1972, and Rock had travelled to Birmingham Town Hall to see a show by the still relatively unknown David Bowie. One in a crowd of just

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career. And it’s not all portraits: highlights of his oeuvre include a series of striking images taken while chief photographer on The Rocky Horror Picture Show, plus classic album cover after classic album cover: from Lou Reed’s Transformer to Queen’s Queen II – the latter was recreated for the Bohemian Rhapsody video. Yet despite his long-held position at the summit of an incredibly competitive industry, Rock disdains to analyse his abilities, dodging my attempts to link him to styles and genres. He talks instead about his love of music and the inspiration he takes from the ‘unique charisma’ of his subjects. “That was what got me hooked and inspired my sensibility – maybe it was latent inside, but no one in my family had any history doing anything in the visual arts.” But these were, as he reminds me, different times. “You could live day-to-day in a big city then; LOU REED, BUYING DOG, 1976 it wasn’t like now, when it’s too expensive to live in a major city without working. The first thing on your mind when you left university or school back then was, How do I avoid getting a proper job? I’ve been putting off the big decision for 40 captivating? Again, his answer comes years and here I am, still dancing!” back to the music, “If the music is “Back then I was grabbing pictures good – great, even – you want to be here and there, hanging out,” he attracted to the person making it. I continues. “I was the right age to do tend to shoot the charismatic artists, so that. The thrill of that maybe passed for me it is about exchanging energy when I turned fifty! I tend to do more and distilling that in an image.” choreographed studio shots now.” But I wonder if he has ever felt frustrated, if the lifestyle has calmed, the style then, at a lack of engagement on a big is the same. Defined less by practical job? “It’s never happened,” he tells me. technique or genre sympathies than “If you get in the ring with me, you’re by the ‘attitude’ he brings to it, Rock’s going to engage! I don’t impose myself work is still much-vaunted by music on my subjects but I am relentless and fans and photography connoisseurs there is a seriousness of intent.” around the globe. And he still shoots “My work isn’t still”, he continues, all the big guns: Pharrell, Cee-Lo, waxing lyrical now. “It’s like the music Bono and Lady Gaga are all recent itself. My approach is uninhibited. additions to his portfolio. Not that he What I do is not complicated but I’m a has a portfolio – “Oh, I never bothered hitman: I get to sip on artists’ blood.” with agents, portfolios, all that stuff.” It Of today’s bands, Rock’s highest really is all about him and the subject. praise is reserved for New York artSo what, I ask, makes rock stars so punks the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Barney Clay,

current squeeze of the band’s singer Karen O, has plans to direct a Mick Rock documentary – previously, it wasn’t something that interested the photographer, but he says that in Clay he has finally found someone ‘with the right sensibility for the job’. But before the film, there’s still his show at the Idea Generation Gallery. Rock seems genuinely excited about the exhibition’s run in London, and has nothing but praise for the gallery. He’s also looking forward to a fantastic end-of-show party. Amid our warm farewells and thanks, I find myself on the receiving end of an invitation to go along on the night, as well as to use whichever of his photographs takes my fancy for this piece. And afterwards, I find myself thinking that Mick Rock has surpassed my hopes in every respect. His striking turns of phrase, unencumbered lucidity and obvious comfort in his own skin strike me as rare in someone so successful. Confident but not cocksure, a ‘free’ spirit with a serious sense of artistic purpose, aware of his cultural impact and involvement in defining some of the modern world’s most vital musical eras, but not at all arrogant... It all amounts to an explanation, I reflect, of why he’s so good at what he does. When, during our interview, I’d asked him if he ever wanted to swap places with the musical legends at the other end of his lens, his reply had been swift and illuminating: “Never, no. It’s not that I’m coy, there’re a lot of videos and photos out there of me! But photography is what works for me. I’m not menacing or mean when I’m shooting someone, it’s playful – but I do have to get the picture. I’m an extractor.” 

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GARDEN VIEW

EloiseÊ BaumannÊ delvesÊ intoÊ theÊ historyÊ ofÊ LondonÕ sÊ renowned jewellery quarter – and ﬁnds out why theÊ smartÊ moneyÊ isÊ alwaysÊ spentÊ inÊ HattonÊ Garden

ou don’t have to be a native Londoner or a committed urbanite to experience the slightly unsettling feeling that can creep up when you leave the capital for any significant amount of time. Outside of London, things can seem suddenly smaller, quieter, less diverse. And yet the very things that cause the city to feel so huge and vital, the things that allow it to hum with possibility – its sheer scale and status – can also serve to smother its potential. Just how much of London can any one person really know? And how much, by contrast, does the average Londoner overlook? Such thoughts as these are among the first stirred by a trip – the first of my life – to Hatton Garden. A short strip of road on the western fringes of the Square Mile, Hatton Garden’s name has come to denote far more than a simple street. For centuries, much of the capital’s jewellery trade has been sited here – goldsmiths and

gem merchants working in close quarters in much the same way as other London industries would cluster together throughout the city’s history. But whereas the bakers’ market of Bread Street and the metal-workers of Ironmonger Lane are long since departed, the gold and diamond traders of Hatton Garden remain. And with Valentine’s Day approaching, and many a woman wondering if February 14th will bless her with something sparkly, it seemed the perfect time to find out what continues to make Hatton Garden and the roads around it – Greville Street, St. Cross Street and Hatton Place among them – such a stronghold of the goldsmith’s trade. Hatton Garden takes its name from Christopher Hatton, a favoured courtier of Elizabeth I, who applied to the queen for a house within the grounds of the London palace of the Bishop of Ely. She granted him a lease (over the protests, one imagines, of the bishop himself) and his name became one with the site of his new dwelling place. Later, Hatton’s estate would be sold, divided up and built over as time wore on and the City of London became home to a myriad of skilled tradesmen and craft workers. But it was not until the middle of the 19th century that the area would become known throughout the wider world as preeminent in the jewellery trade. In 1866, a farm worker in the British imperial outpost of Kimberley, South Africa, discovered a diamond the size of a small pebble on the banks of the Orange River. A few years later, another,

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similar discovery was made close by. Then, in 1871, an employee on the farm of the De Beers brothers stumbled across an 83 carat diamond which sparked a ‘diamond rush’ the likes of which the world had never seen. The effect on the world’s jewellery centres was almost immediate: trade surged and vast fortunes were made. In 1906, the De Beers Diamond Company established their headquarters at London’s Royal Exchange, and the many goldsmiths and gem merchants around the corner in Hatton Garden found themselves right at the hub of the action. The area’s destiny was set. In 1966, the first retail jewellery shop was opened in Hatton Garden, by the controversial ‘King of Diamonds’ Laurence Graff. And so it’s appropriate that my destination today is a building that once housed his workshops – and which today is home to Hatton Garden’s largest, most successful and most forward-thinking jeweller, Cool Diamonds. I’m here to meet Daniel O’Farrell, son of one of the company’s two founders and an expert on the diamond trade. I want to find out what it’s like being at the cutting edge (no pun intended) of the jewellery business – and helpfully, Daniel’s also pretty knowledgeable about the heritage of the local area. We meet at Cool Diamonds’ retail headquarters at 16 Greville Street, seconds from Hatton Garden’s main drag. The shopfront is markedly different from the others in the area, in that it displays no wares: no gold, no diamonds, no ‘bling’ of any kind: just a reception desk and a pretty young receptionist. I’m intrigued, but as Daniel explains when I’m introduced moments later, it’s just one of the ways that Cool Diamonds are doing things differently. “Hatton Garden has over 300 jewellers in close proximity, it’s by far the largest cluster of traders in the UK, and there are lots of attempted break-ins: about one a month, in fact. Usually the perpetrators are caught straight away: there’s a large plain clothes police presence and private security on patrol. But we find that not having a window display reduces the chances of being a target. It costs about £100,000 a year to insure a display window, and that’s a saving we can pass on to customers.” I’d be lying if I didn’t glance over my shoulder at this point, a flicker of concern tickling my imagination. But then I realise: I’m probably safer in here than outside on the street. I’m led upstairs past various electronic entry systems, steel-reinforced doors and whirring CCTV cameras to sit at Daniel’s desk as he explains to me the history and purpose of the company – and the excitement of dealing in the world’s most valuable stones.

Daniel’s father, Christopher O’Farrell, founded Cool Diamonds with business partner Michael Einhorn in 1999, with the intention of adopting a more modern, transparent approach to selling diamonds. Both had worked in the jewellery trade for many years, and both were keen to test their theory that a more open, understanding attitude to customers – who were often prepared to spend large amounts on stones they understood little about – would make for a profitable enterprise. Their first decade of trading would seem to vindicate them – and then some. Cool Diamonds sells on average around 3000 diamond rings a year, and have pioneered the use of the internet in selling diamond jewellery in this country. “We’re the largest jeweller in Hatton Garden now, and the website has played a big part in helping us to get there. At first it was slow going: people obviously want to see and touch the stones they’re buying. But as the world has changed in its approach to online shopping, we’ve seen the site become much more popular as a research tool. People still come in to the office, all the time – but many more of them do the initial hunting on the site, because of all the features we’ve added – like 3D images and so on – to make it more of a ‘real’ shopping experience.” Hatton Garden’s success has always stemmed from two things: quality and value. Visit any of the famous, flashy West End brands like Tiffany & Co. or Boodles & Dunthorne, Daniel tells me, and you will find some truly exquisite, beautifully made jewellery – but at an average 200300% mark-up. I’m visibly astonished. Hatton Garden jewellers, on the other hand, generally charge wholesale rates – and don’t ask you to pay through the nose for a logo. So even though you’ll have access to the same expertise, craftsmanship and rare and beautiful gems, the mark-up will be in the much more palatable region of 20-30%. I am suddenly far closer to understanding the appeal of Hatton Garden to Londoners (and visitors to the city) throughout the last century: what other luxury goods sector allows you the option to purchase the very highest quality workmanship at such reduced rates (relative to the famous names)? Obviously pleased to see me so intrigued by the ways of the trade, Daniel goes on to explain what to look out for when purchasing a diamond: cut, clarity, colour and carat weight (factors elucidated by a helpful chart on his desk), while impressing upon me the need to see a certificate evaluating all of the above and issued by one of the accepted, independent gem appraisal authorities. The most esteemed is the Gemmological Institute of America (or GIA), and every stone sold by Cool

Diamonds is evaluated by this body. So once questions of authenticity and value are out of the way, I ask, what is the most popular purchase among the savvy types who bring their custom to Cool Diamonds? “I would say the most popular design is the Selena – a classic, six-prong engagement ring. But we offer a wide range of stuff, including one-off designs by winners of our competitions for Central St. Martin’s art students, and everyone has their own taste. I was lucky, I was able to show my girlfriend the entire line and see which design she liked best before I proposed! But if a guy does make the wrong choice, we offer a 30-day money back guarantee. We recognise you can’t always get it right!” Buying your own girlfriend’s engagement ring through your company? If I were here today to purchase something, I might wonder if this was a clever sales pitch. But my host looks more excited than he does predatory, tweezering diamonds of all shapes and hues from tiny envelopes to show me the different sizes, clarities and colours that Mother Nature (and a talented diamond cutter) can produce. I take a liking to a champagnetinted, two carat beauty, a snip at £6,500 – at least, it’s a snip when you recall that the same gem could set you back somewhere in the region of £10,000-11,000 (at least) just a half mile west of here. We’ve just time for a quick look at the Cool Diamonds workshop before I leave – to my surprise, it’s a fantastically traditionallooking setup, complete with a trio of friendly Antipodean goldsmiths (“No one in Britain really offers apprenticeships any more, so most of our craftsmen are from Australia or South Africa”) and beautiful, rough-hewn wooden workbenches. A variety of rings are being polished or resized, and I can’t help but think that each of these pieces is set to change someone’s life. It must be a wonderful thing, I say, to create symbols of love and attachment, and to know that you’re sending them out into the world, hopefully to become treasured future heirlooms. Daniel nods in agreement. “It’s true,” he says. “When I first started working here, it was a holiday job. But you quickly get so absorbed into the history of the trade, the science behind the stones: and you meet so many people at the happiest times of their lives. It’s not something you can leave easily. Nine years later, I’m still here.” And you can bet your life that Daniel, Cool Diamonds and the jewellers of Hatton Garden are going to be here for a long time to come.  Cool Diamonds, 16 Greville Street, EC1N 8SQ (020 7405 5322) cooldiamonds.com 17

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PAUL AND JOE CAT HEAD LIPSTICK WE CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF THESE PRETTY LIPSTICKS. ALL IN THE NAME OF SLINKY FELINE FUN! £16, ASOS.COM

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Year of the Rabbit According to Chinese astrology, those born in the year of the Rabbit are creative, sensitive & love to learn about new countries & cultures. If 2011 has brought out the rabbit in you, Intrepid Travel has over 1000 different ways to help you discover the real world this year. Maybe you’ll learn how to make an authentic Thai curry in Chiang Mai. Perhaps you’ll take part in a floating candle ceremony on the banks of the River Ganges. You might learn how to make mint tea with Bedouin hosts in Morocco or even challenge yourself to keep up with the locals in the pulsing dance halls of Havana. And if you want to start your rabbitting a little closer to home, you can get creative and learn something new at the Intrepid Travel Store every week this month…

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NEW PILATES ROOM AT FRAME Frame have gone all New York loft-style with their new Pilates studio. As well as the classic reformer classes, the studio now runs additional Pilates Apps and Aerobic Pilates sessions. WE For prices schedule and prices see moveyourframe.com, 29 New Inn Yard, EC2A 3EY, 020 7033 1855

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THERMO-AURICULAR THERAPY (EAR-CANDLING) Used to aid relaxation as well as provide relief from ear, nose and throat conditions, honey, chamomile, sage, St John’s Wort and betacarotene are coated in beeswax and used for their soothing properties; the candles draw out impurities and stimulate circulation. £55 for 1 hour, within Neal’s Yard Remedies, 295 Upper St, N1 2TU, 020 7359 4149 E W

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NOSH QI (CHEE) BALLS Designed to help you avoid running to the sweet aisle for that afternoon sugar hit, these seed, nut and raw pressed fruit balls are great for grazing on. Bursting with good ingredients, these healthy treats include chlorella, which helps support natural defences in the body, but aid detoxification too. £5.95 per pack, Noshdetoxdelivery.com

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NOSH DETOX Helen Baron signs up to the Nosh Detox Delivery Programme

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t seemed like a great idea. I’m game for anything in the name of health and beauty and my January resolve was flagging, so… a detox? Sign me up! For the full six days! As the start of the Nosh Detox plan loomed, however, I began to have second thoughts. I get hungry. I drink coffee. And I have a sweet tooth. In fact, I have about 32 of them. If I don’t have something sweet for breakfast (the only alternative being eggs) then I’m likely to make up for it at teatime. It could be anything from all manner of sugary treats. And if I don’t have something sweet all day… well, it’s never happened. All hell could break loose. But I couldn’t let Nosh down. The meals for my first day, plus a supplementary box of goodies including bath salts and herbal teas, had been hand delivered the night before. My family were over, and took great interest in what the ‘food stork’ had brought me – when I pinned my day’s menu to the fridge, they gathered round like students waiting to see exam results. Well, I guess none of us had seen this kind of detox package before. But now the pressure was on: my plan had gone public, and my progress was being observed. As it turns out, I needn’t have worried so much about the first morning. Breakfast is my favourite meal of the day; I’m quite often famished the moment I open my eyes. But the Nosh Detox breakfast smoothie (granola and oat milk, unprocessed and additive free) was a delicious start to the day. Mid-morning I had a tea from the selection in my box of goodies; reassuringly, each little tea packet espoused the particular merits of its contents, and explained which was best drunk on each day of the plan, so as to aid the detoxification process. The tea for day one, for example, was Cascara Black, which apparently possesses a cleansing effect and which stimulates digestive secretions from the liver, gallbladder, stomach and pancreas. Lunch is spring onion soup and dinner is a tasty mixture of polenta cakes and grilled vegetables. I fall into bed feeling positive: things are going okay so far.

On the second day, I experience hunger pangs while at the same time feeling bloated. Perhaps it’s all the liquid, but there’s an upside: I’m not craving sugar yet and a double exercise class at the gym helps me make it through until dinner, which tonight is truly delicious – and surprisingly filling. I begin to wonder if I’ve managed to reduce my stomach size already? Day two is also a highlight because I find the time to indulge in my lemon and ginger bath salts with dry body-brush beforehand, as advised. Around the middle of the week, I find myself yearning for some greasy fats: fried eggs, cake, anything! I feel tired and headachey, and go through the anticipated frustrations at having signed myself up to a detox plan. My skin is looking clearer though, and I’m committed to seeing it through. I’m helped by the fact that, as the week progresses, the meals seem to get more and more delicious, as if the designers of the detox could sense you might need a greater incentive at this point. Dinners also become a little more varied and – it seems – slightly larger… or maybe my appetite has shrunk. Whatever the truth, I end the week feeling back to high spirits, healthier and proud of myself for having seen the Nosh Detox through. I’ll miss the daily deliveries of fresh, sugar-free meals and the extra incentive to stay well – but there does seem to have been a genuinely positive lasting effect…

CONCLUSION It’s one thing to complete a detox in the relaxed environment of say, a yoga retreat, which allows you the time to process the requisite lifestyle changes. It’s quite another to adhere to it amidst the chaos of a hectic work-life schedule. In the face of ‘cold turkey’ headaches and digestive murmurings, your mind throws up all kinds of unhelpful saccharine suggestions: “Cake will help you concentrate.” And when you’re stressed, busy and (for us office workers) sedentary, you might lack the time and the willpower required to redress any bad eating habits you’ve picked up along the way. Fearing the effects that a little change for the better might bring, you lapse. At least, I lapsed… twice. Surprisingly, however, my lapses helped highlight to me the key strength of the plan: if you believe (like me) that a little bit of what you fancy does you good, the Nosh Detox makes it clear just how little that need be. That’s its genius: we’ve grown so accustomed to thinking that just because food is available, we can have it – but there’s really no need for so much sugar and fat in anyone’s diet. The Nosh Detox retrained my taste buds to the point where I no longer want sugar in my tea. A slice of cake no longer leaves me feeling quite so satisfied. The plan showed me that if I make a little effort from the outset, pretty soon I can succumb to my sweet tooth twice a week – not twice a day – and feel free of the old cravings the rest of the time. I can replace more obviously tantalising treats with healthy, filling, vitamin-packed alternatives – if not all the time, then a good sight more than I used to. And if, for some reason, I lose track, then I can sign up for the Nosh Detox again, for a refresher course in balancing my diet. In fact, I can imagine doing so several times a year, just to keep myself in check. I’m determined to take my findings forward and continue with the Nosh Detox principles long-term.  The Nosh Detox plan is available from noshdetoxdelivery.com, priced from £33.95 per day. There are a variety of plans available.

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Amethyst, Sapphire & Aquamarine rings £375 Pineapple Necklace £95, all from Krausz Jewellery Husam El Odeh Gold single stone off-centre ring £199, Sefton Womenswear, 271 Upper Street, London, N1 2UQ, 020 7226 9822

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WHAT’S HOT GOING UP Over-the-Knee Boots We like them in slinky suede to avoid the Pretty Woman look. Pirate chic ahoy! Gary, Howard and Jason from Take That Good guys getting on with the job at hand – and far less scary than the other two. Levi 519s It’s all about the slightly baggier slim fit – on boys and girls. Pret-a-Manger Soups Hearty nourishment to help you face the wild weather – fills you up good and proper.

GOING DOWN Plimsolls Wise up, hipsters: these shoes are for summer only! Robbie Williams Ole bug eyes is on the comeback trail, mugging his way through endless TV performances with help from that shameless imp, Mark Owen. Grow old disgracefully if you want, boys, but spare us the fake smiles!

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FOOD & DRINK

SCHOOL OF WOK

Helen Baron gets to grips with the basics of Chinese Cooking...

LESSON My cooking skills are inconsistent to say the least. A tendency to burn things and a rather gung-ho approach to measurements (I’m no Nigella) is only redeemed by the enthusiasm with which I plan the occasional dinner party. In fact, it takes such an event to warrant the introduction of a new utensil to my rather limited repertoire. I do, however, love food and eat out often, so my new year resolution was to cook more – and to cook better, of course. As a result, the year began with a few friends and I starting our very own Come Dine with Me competition – I went first, and met with reasonable success (though my mascarpone and asparagus tart was rather greener and more gooey than I’d hoped).

Next time , I thought, I’d be better prepared than ever. What I needed was some help from the experts – and so, with February and Chinese New Year approaching, I booked a cookery lesson with Jeremy Pang of School of Wok. The lovely Jeremy arrived bright and early at 10:30am and furnished me with an easy but impressive custom-built menu: stir fried pak choi with garlic; prawn wonton noodle soup, and whole steamed seabass. Jeremy unloaded the food and cooking equipment he’d brought with him and the lesson began with a quick test – working out what ingredients would go into which dish. It turned out, I didn’t know my soy from my… soy, and Jeremy explained the difference between the main sauces of

Chinese cooking. I had never even taken the time to realise the variance between light and dark soy sauce: the latter more syrupy, used for colouring and the former saltier, used more often and great for marinating. Next up was knife technique (mine, alas, was at a level best described as ‘non-existent’) – I had to know how to use a knife properly in order to dice the vegetables for my wonton parcels. I’m extremely proud to say, I had it down (thanks to Jeremy’s guidance) in minutes, and was soon happily slicing Chinese chives, coriander, tiger prawns and garlic into neat miniscule cubes with a reasonable degree of precision. No more garlic crushers for me; gone are the days of my haphazard vegetable

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“At the end of our three hour lesson, I wAs Able to reAp the fruIts of my lAbour. the food wAs delIcIous; unbelIevAbly fresh And Infused wIth sImple seAsonIngs but burstIng wIth flAvour”

shapes, lovingly (if euphemistically) referred to as ‘rustic’. Jeremy had me itching to trade in my rather paltry selection of amateur serrated knives for his gleaming, razor-sharp professional one. I even learned how to cut and roll spring onion into the thin strips that garnish dishes and are used to make crispy duck pancakes. Wok and roll (ahem)! As the lesson progressed, I realised that it’s the small things that make the difference in cooking. Dry noodles should first be soaked in hot water and then sufficiently dried by an open window or oven fan – not just boiled – to ensure they separate properly and to prevent them sticking together later. Fish bones and prawn shells can be used

to make the stock for the noodle soup (with a little help from our old friend, oyster sauce, and that other staple of Chinese cooking, ginger). And of course, there is an art to using a wok correctly. Those who have mastered it refer to their ‘wok hei’ (which Jeremy translates for me as height of the fire), because proper technique demands the food be cooked at high heat while being stirred or tossed quickly. Jeremy took me through the basics, explaining how Chinese-style cast-iron woks allow for much better heat retention and all-over heat distribution – luckily he’d brought his own, as mine was steel with a Teflon coating – not as durable or ideal for the high temperatures required. He also showed me how to clean a wok properly after use – you should always swill with water at high heat rather than bunging it in the sink with detergent. At the end of our three hour lesson, I was able to reap the fruits of my labour. The food was delicious; unbelievably fresh and infused with simple seasonings but bursting with flavour.

THE SCHOOL School of Wok aims to bring the techniques of Chinese cooking to your own kitchen so that you, your family and friends can master the art without straying from home. Jeremy travels the length and breadth of the capital, sharing his cooking knowledge. Trained at the Cordon Bleu and having worked as a travel journalist in South East Asia, he loves what he does. “I enjoy meeting people from all walks of life,” he says, “and my job allows me to be constantly learning about food.” Having been surrounded by the wonders of Asian cuisine, he is happy to share the culinary techniques that, he feels, have been kept secret by Chinese restaurateurs over the last two or three generations. “What is a shame is that a lot of Chinese restaurants try to cut corners,” he says. “They use monosodium glutamate and aren’t willing to pay out for fresher, more varied ingredients.” After the lesson, Jeremy sits down with me for a cuppa and shares some of his traveling tales, talking me through the regions most popularly referred to in Chinese cooking, the impact that geographical positioning 37

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and trade routes have had on cooking style and on the ingredients used in different types of Chinese cuisine. Cantonese food uses a broad range of ingredients thanks to its coastal location, while the further east you go (and the nearer to Shanghai) the wider the use of kimchi and pickle (surely an influence from Japan). The cuisine of Beijing tends to be more extravagant, because historically food was brought into the city from all over the country and cooked in numerous ways to impress the Emperor. Knowledge is one thing though – a good teacher also has to be able to impart it effectively. I’m glad to say, Jeremy is great on both counts. From the start of the lesson, he pitched my skill level perfectly, and as the lesson is quite long, I felt able to acquire new techniques without being overloaded. The lesson left me feeling confident about replicating the recipes alone – and for those of you with more experience than I had, you can choose to make your favourite dishes, take a more in-depth course spanning seven lessons or take on the ten-course banquet challenge, with Jeremy as your sous-chef! School of Wok also offer Group Gourmet Classes: something I’m considering as a gift for my Come Dine with Me pals. After all, I thoroughly enjoyed my introduction to real Chinese cooking, and now I can’t wait for my next round of the competition: it’s in the bag!  Why not pop down to Intrepid Travel to try your hand at Asian Cooking? The company are running a series of ‘Learn Something New in 2011’ events throughout February, and will be offering the following free events at Intrepid Travel Islington: 1 Feb – Wildlife Photography in Borneo with Nick Garbutt, twice winner of the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition 8 Feb – Asian Cookery with Jeremy Pang from School of Wok 15 Feb – Salsa Dancing with Ronnie Raul, Resident Instructor for Mambo 4 Every 1 Productions 23 Feb – African Craft Workshop with Magie Relph from The African Fabric Shop Events start at 7pm and are free to book at intrepidtravel.com/events Intrepid Travel Islington, 76 Upper Street N1 0NU (020 7354 6169) 38

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PRAWN WONTON NOODLE SOUP INGREDIENTS WONTON 150g raw tiger prawns Chinese chives 3 Chinese mushrooms (soaked in hot water overnight) 1 clove garlic 15-20 wonton pastries MARINADE 2 tbsp light soy sauce Pinch of sugar Sesame oil to cover NOODLE SOUP 3 slices ginger Prawn shells & heads 2 spring onions 1 pack rice vermicelli 1 pak choi (sliced lengthways into quarters) 1-2tbsp oyster sauce PREPARATION THE FILLING Finely chop the chives and garlic and place in a large prep bowl Finely dice the mushrooms and prawns and add to the prep bowl Season with soy sauce, a pinch of sugar and cover with sesame oil Mix well THE FOLDING 1. Place 1 tsp filling in the centre of the pastry

Using the tip of your finger wet all sides of the pastry with cold water

Fold bottom corner over the filling to the top corner and press pastry down to seal all sides (to form a triangle)

Holding the base of the filling with your thumbs, pull the 2 corners of the triangle towards each other, overlap the 4. ends and then press together to form a ‘trough’ shape

Place aside and fold all wontons the same way

COOKING THE NOODLE SOUP Soak the noodles in hot water for 3 minutes Once the noodles have separated, drain the water and allow to dry (preferably overnight for best results) Using either fish bones or prawn heads and shells, place in a medium sized saucepan and fill with water ¾ full Add roughly 1 tsp salt, 3 slices of ginger and 1-2 tbsp oyster sauce. Stir and bring to boil Boil for 20 minutes and then remove the bones / shells & heads Once the soup is on a rolling boil, add the wontons and pak choi and allow to boil for 4-5 minutes. The wontons will start to float once they are cooked. Now add the noodles to the soup and allow to boil for 30 seconds before serving 38

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“but where are my folks going to stay?”

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RESTAURANT REVIEW: OISHIII, N16

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OI OI OISHIII Helen Baron does Japanese in trendy Stoke Newington

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toke Newington Church Street is hardly starved (if you’ll forgive the pun) of places to eat. Along the first 400 metre stretch extending west from Stoke Newington Road you’ll find all manner of cuisine waiting to tickle your fancy, from Mexican to Indian and back again. But until relatively recently, one craze had passed north-east London’s cutest quarter by - we’re talking sushi, and the art of Japanese cooking. Well, north Londoners need worry no more. The proprietors of legendary local Thai restaurant Yum Yum (just around the corner) noticed the gap in the market and opened Oishiii to fill it. And we felt compelled to whip out our chopsticks and put this newcomer to the test. The first thing to note is that Oishiii is not one of those sniffy, superior places that see sushi as the preserve of a tiny, well-to-do elite. The welcome we received was as warm as they come, and the atmosphere in the eatery was one of chatty, cheerful fun - entirely in keeping with the buzz of the area on the doorstep. We went on a Saturday night, and the restaurant was fairly packed with diners of all ages and appearances - young professionals swapping stories in one corner, a girls’ night out laughing in another and, at the next table, two young bohemian types meeting their equally artsy parents. The service was attentive and efficient from the start, the staff all smiles and happy to recommend dishes to two diners in search of fresh

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least partly explained by the thoughtful presence on the menu of several exciting sharing platters, offering very good value for groups - or else by the amazing warm sake aperitifs and fine selection of Japanese wines and beer. We were spoiled for choice at the beginning of our meal, and pleasantly full by the end. (It’s only fair to note that we couldn’t help plumping for dessert, too - a mouthwatering mix of red bean and green tea ice creams.) By evening’s end, we were perfectly and happily sated. Japanese food is refreshingly light but filling. The restaurant’s laid-back decor, relaxed ambiance and amazing food served to make for a Saturday night out that was at once informal in feel and impeccable in flavour. No wonder it’s already proven a hit with the notoriously choosy locals, who by all accounts take advantage of Oishiii’s diverse offerings as much by day as they do by night. My friend and I wandered off together rhapsodising about the freshness and healthiness of the meal we’d just eaten - even for a cuisine as fashionable as Japanese, there’s no greater testimonial than that.  4 Course Valentine’s Set Menu £24.95 per person Oishiii, 67 Stoke Newington Church St, N16 0AR 020 7254 3488 41

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HOME& GARDEN

AN ENGLISH COUNTRY GARDEN

English Heritage presents a photographic exhibition at Kenwood House, based on the book, The Gardens of the English Heritage, by Gillian Mawry and Linden Groves, in which the gardens are formally celebrated for the first time in print

aking in such varying landscaping from the traditional Wrest Park and Chiswick house to the rolling parkland slopes around Kenwood House, to Queen Victoria’s garden at Osborne, the book presents gardens from every corner of England, and those that typify almost every century. We caught up with Linden Groves to find out more about winning the award for ‘Inspirational Book of the Year’ at the Garden Media Guild Book Awards 2010. What was the impetus for this book? English Heritage is a great unsung hero – it lacks the glamour and profile of other heritage organisations but quietly and authoritively works to protect our past and the precious character of our nation. Gillian Mawrey and I were frustrated that so few people knew of its great work

carrying out research, offering advice, and conserving the historic properties that it owns… so we decided to write a book about it! How long have you been familiar with the gardens under the care of the English Heritage – and how much research was undertaken? English Heritage owns some of the most important gardens in England – for example, London’s Chiswick House is famous across the world for its design innovation in the 18th century – so as garden historians we had long been aware of EH’s gardens and were itching to spread the word! Working as a garden historian always involves putting in library hours looking through dusty documents to find the odd nugget of information, but in this case we were lucky to have the weight

of a huge heritage organisation behind us, complete with boxes and boxes of expert research files! Can you share with us any striking historical anecdotes from the book? Of course, I’m biased, but I think that the book is packed with brilliant anecdotes! In the current economic climate though, one of the most engaging details is the list of ‘Unnecessary Expenses of Gardens’ kept by Sir Charles Monck of Belsay Hall (Northumberland) in the early 19th century. He suggests as a solution to the expense of maintaining large areas of fruit and vegetable garden that the reader “Reduce area and only grow fruit and vegetables that you cannot easily buy. Those not easily bought are Green Peas (those sold are often hard and old), cauliflowers if you are far from market, fresh cabbages, spinach, lettuce, brussel 43

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HOME& GARDEN sprouts and buy beetroot, onions, carrots, Jerusalem artichokes, potatoes, turnips, spring lettuces. Buy in Northumberland apples, pears, damsons. Grow your own cherries (maydrakes and morellos). Those bought are hard and unripe. If ripe, they do not travel well. The same with strawberries if you are not near market and with raspberries.” What can you tell us about the gardens at Kenwood House? Many North Londoners confuse Kenwood House with the more naturalistic Hampstead Heath, but in fact Kenwood is a carefully designed landscape, amongst the best in the country. Many of us go there today to enjoy the summer concerts around the lake – this is called The Thousand Pound Pond, apparently to reflect the cost of its creation, and includes a bridge which, whilst very attractive, is only a sham because in fact it was made in order to give the illusion of a larger stretch of water beyond. Top 18th century designer Humphry Repton later worked at Kenwood and he didn’t approve of the Sham Bridge, saying that it was “a deception so frequently liable to be detected, I think it is an object beneath the dignity of Kenwood”. What do you love about landscapes and what is your favourite English Heritage Garden? I love that landscapes are all around us so they are an art form that you simply can’t miss. They can range from a concrete playground to a romantic rose garden to a sweep of green lawn so there is always a landscape to suit every taste. My favourite English Heritage garden has to be Audley End in Essex, which has something to appeal to every kind of visitor – a Victorian parterre, organic kitchen garden, landscape park and Elysian canal. What was the most enjoyable thing about writing the book? Of course, the best part was visiting the gardens, meeting the inspiring people who work there, and learning about the gardeners, owners and designers who made the gardens in centuries past! I’m a Londoner to the core, but there’s something very satisfying about putting on my stout shoes and catching a train to

another world of nature and history. Can you tell us a bit about the cowriting process? Gillian and I have both agreed that our greatest achievement in writing the book was to still be friends at the end! Seriously, co-writing can be a fraught process but we’ve worked together for over a decade now as she introduced me to garden history when I was fresh out of university and went to work on the magazine Historic Gardens Review, which she edits. She’s like my Mr Miyagi so we get on pretty well!

Why do you think the British have such an enduring passion for gardening and do you think it is one that is set to die out? The British climate is so suited to gardening that I can’t see our love ever dying out – it’s simply too satisfying! It is a bit depressing though to see so many otherwise intelligent Londoners deciding to concrete over their front gardens in favour of uninspiring car parking. Tell us a little bit about your work as a conservation officer. I work as a conservation officer for the Garden History Society (gardenhistorysociety.org), which means giving our opinion on conservation issues relating to the protection and preservation of England’s historic parks and gardens. Mainly, this involves looking at planning applications for developments that might affect important sites, such as the controversial plan to host the Olympic equestrian event at Greenwich Park, a fragile World Heritage Site.

Recently though, I have been focussing on children’s play in historic gardens and have produced a GHS leaflet on new approaches to providing for children without necessarily bringing in large amounts of off-the-peg equipment. Of course, one of the most powerful ways to protect our heritage is through raising public awareness, hopefully with books such as this one on The Gardens of English Heritage. In fact, this is how I originally got into garden history – through working with Gillian Mawrey on the magazine Historic Gardens Review (historicgardens.org), which aims to inspire excitement about historic gardens worldwide. Do you garden yourself? What is your own garden like? I do garden myself – badly but enthusiastically! My own garden is much-loved but intentionally kept wild looking as I think that overly manicured gardens can lose their interest very quickly. As I have a young family, it is also very child-friendly, crammed with a slide, sandpit, rabbit and far too many fruit trees. I also have an allotment where I like to grow rhubarb, garlic and beans. At the moment a group of us are working to open up more allotments in our area and are just waiting to hear whether Barnet council will be able to help out. My most satisfying gardening though is done with 200 four to eleven year olds at Hollickwood School in Muswell Hill (hollickwoodschool.org/friends.php), which involves getting urban kids off the tarmac and into the mud! Finally, why do you live in Muswell Hill; are there any local gardens you would recommend visiting? I love Muswell Hill for managing to combine London living with fresh air and green space. I would definitely recommend visiting Highgate Woods, in the autumn when the trees look magnificent, and Alexandra Palace on a clear day when the views of London are simply fantastic. Exhibition runs from 21st January 2011 - 3rd April 2011 Kenwood House, NW3 7JR Monday to Sunday 11.30am - 4pm

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INTERIORS CUPCAKE HEART MOULD Add that special touch and bake a heart (or six) for Valentine’s Day! £9.99 phassocs.co.uk and available in all good cookware stores

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JONATHON ADLER COASTERS Brought to us by American designer Jonathon Adler, these fabulous, hand-made needlepoint peace and love coasters are guaranteed to bring a little happiness into your home! £38 for a set of 4, supernice.co.uk

BRUCE WEBER’S ‘CARTIER, I LOVE YOU’ Celebrating 100 Years of Cartier in America; this lovely coffee table book is a heartfelt love letter to a jewellery house without equal, “A wonderful substitute for something glittery in that little red box” writes Sarah Harris, fashion features writer at Vogue. £59.50, amazon.com

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SUSHI WORKSHOP The SUSHI Academy London is the only professional training school for sushi chefs in Europe. Courses are supervised by Hiroyuki Kanda, owner of and chef at, Michelin-starred Japanese restaurant “KANDA”, so when we heard that the academy was running workshops, we wanted to be the first to have a go at some “hands-on” sushi-making. The sessions run for about 2 hours and in that time you prepare maki-zushi rolled sushi, nigiri sushi, te-maki handrolled sushi and gunkan-maki. You also learn how to make osumashi-jiru, a clear soup, and carrot and burdock kinpira (sauteed vegetables) so you get a meal at the end washed down with some sake. We grilled (but not literally) workshop leader Takatoshi Mitsuhasi on what makes good sushi, as we munched it. Was one of your motivations for setting up The Sushi Workshop because of the poor quality of sushi that can sometimes be found in London? Yes, and it’s not just Sushi. Japanese foods often appear to be cooked by people who have not taken the time to learn properly. At the workshops you can pick up a great range of tips you might not otherwise hear about, like moistening your knife when cutting your sushi roll to make a cleaner cut. What are your other top tips for making the perfect sushi? The most important thing to make the perfect sushi is to make good, delicious sushi rice:

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Indie band Chapel Club have gone from unknown to an acclaimed debut album in just over a year. We caught up with frontman Lewis Bowman after their recent Last.fm Festival gig at the HMV Forum in Kentish Town, to find out how it feels to be in one of the most talked about new bands in Britain

f 2010 was the year that dubstep took over as the nation’s favourite musical flavour, 2011 might be the year that the guitar bands fight back. And in a music scene dominated by formulaic American chart pop, vacuous hip hop and the odd rock dinosaur clinging on for dear life amid the tumult of their own cliches, north London five-piece Chapel Club could very well end up leading the charge. With their enthralling, explosive debut, Palace, released at the end of January, we met up with indie’s most beguiling new standard-bearers to talk art, language and ‘bands that matter’. Chapel Club formed in late 2008 and started gigging in the autumn of 2009. Three shows later, you were at the centre of a label bidding war and ended up signing to Universal Records imprint Loog. You leapt from being unknown to playing in the

big leagues pretty quickly. So how was 2010? It was by turns incredible, insane, exciting, unsettling... a pretty strange and wonderful experience for which we’re all very grateful. But still it felt like a warm-up: we were taking things relatively slowly, trying to learn the ropes the old-fashioned way, touring all over the UK and Europe. Now that the album’s out, it’s time to amp things up a bit. 2011 is going to be interesting, I think. Your bandmates had played in bands all through their teens, but you’d never been in a band before, is that right? What is it like to be standing onstage at a legendary venue like the HMV Forum? It’s weird; perhaps not quite nervewracking, but weird – and amazing. I only really accepted that I’m a frontman around last October! Before that, I felt like I was maybe not ideal frontman material - too self-conscious,

too analytical. Now I realise those are actually the things that define me as a musician, and I’m having much more fun with it as a result. I had fun tonight. The Forum is a cool place to play. And do you have any good tour stories? You must get to know the rest of the band in new – and possible unpleasant ways – being on the road with them for weeks and months on end? Ha, that’s true, though we were all pretty close beforehand. I actually give thanks all the time for the other guys in the band; touring can be very mundane, lots of driving and sitting around, but the guys are all pretty hilarious so they keep me from going mad. I can’t say I’ve learned anything too unsettling about any of them yet – although I do have a growing collection of quotations from our bassist [and Upper Street resident], Liam. He’s a unique soul. Sample entry: “My handwriting’s not as bad as it looks.”

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CULTURE match the brawn of the music. Because there are some pretty big, striking songs on there. I think the record has a fairly brave sound and dynamic, considering the lo-fi trend of last year. And I think it does its job pretty well, capturing the rush and surge of the emotions and memories at the heart of the songs. Hopefully people will agree! You sound unsure? No, I’m just aware that I might sound arrogant! Certain sections of the press already love to paint me as this mad little mouth-on-legs, running around ranting and feeding my rabid ego, when in fact I’m in a state of eternal doubt. I’m also actually quite quiet and calm most of the time. But yeah, if there’s one thing I am sure about, it’s that we made a good record – an interesting record, with depth and heart.

He says it like he doesn’t know what he’s doing. But he knows what he’s doing. He’s a genius. The album has been getting pretty great reviews across the board, what was it like recording it? What was your vision for it, as a band, and are you pleased with the response? Any time anyone likes anything we do, we’re grateful - so grateful! But you never know how people will react. I do think we made a strong debut though, a pretty assured opening salvo with hopefully a fair bit of beauty and intelligence to

You’ve been called the new ‘poet laureate’ of indie, and you’ve talked in the past about the fact that you care about the lyrics. Why are they so important to you? Why wouldn’t they be? Songwriting for me is an opportunity to create something from nothing – something kind of magical and wonderful. Why would you expend time and effort making the music as evocative as it can be, then sing cliches or nonsense over the top? It’s embarrassing. A lot of bands do that, because a lot of people grow up with this attitude of like, ‘I don’t do books’. They think language is something academic, something dull and old-fashioned. My take is that it’s the most incredible thing in the world. I feel addicted to it: my idea of fun is to quote lines from The Crucible at my girlfriend, or to rhapsodise about the dialogue in Watership Down to anyone who’ll listen. Granted I’m usually drunk when I do this stuff, but the desire is always there, the desire to write and to recite. I’m sure a lot of people feel the same.

Musically and lyrically then, what are the band’s influences? Oh, anything. The lyric for our song All the Eastern Girls was written on the top deck of a number 8 bus traveling from Oxford Circus to Clerkenwell. And the name Chapel Club was inspired by St. Luke’s Church on Old Street. In terms of bands we all like and listen to... I guess when we made Palace I was listening to lots of Scott Walker and old jazz singers, and the other guys were talking about New Order, My Bloody Valentine, The Velvet Underground etc. Since then, the focus has shifted slightly. We’ve been listening to a lot of Deerhunter, Tusk-era Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young, Arthur Russell... We try to remain pretty open really, we want to keep changing and evolving. Wow, that is quite a cliché I just came out with. But it’s true. It sounds like you’re all quite artistically inclined, is that the case? And yet your music is frequently called ‘anthemic’ and the band is a serious contender for the main stages at festivals and so on. How do you think Chapel Club fits in to the current musical landscape, and what does the future hold? I can see what you mean, there is a bit of a contradiction at the heart of what we do, but I think that’s the way a lot of great bands work – bands like Radiohead or The Flaming Lips or Arcade Fire. I’m not saying we’re in their league yet! And our aim certainly isn’t to achieve a certain scale of success – it’s to make music of real depth and beauty and to be a valuable, valid part of the wider cultural landscape. I just love how those bands take an interesting, often esoteric outlook and make music that moves people on lots of different levels. That’s hopefully where we fit in – or where we will fit in, soon. We want to be a band that matters. Palace, the debut album by Chapel Club, is available now

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INTERNET ENABLED SCALES Yes – you read it right! These rather slick looking weighing scales transfer data about your weight to your online account. If you have an iPhone, their app can display this data too. Visualising your weight change as you progress through the year can make it incredibly competitive, as you’ll want see the weight line slope downwards. withings.com GET FIT SOCIALLY GymFu has had some great press recently with TechCrunch calling it “Wii Fit for the iPhone”. These guys have a range of apps from CrunchFu, PushupFu and SquatFu (I’m sure you can guess what each one is for). The game-like qualities and social aspects can be very addictive. Being able to challenge your friends and share your successes will push you to do more

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small amount of exercise. The real genius of the application is that you can compete against friends and progress like you would in an online game.You earn experience points, increase in levels and win prizes the more exercise you do. In addition, if you don’t exercise regularly you actually lose experience points over time. This makes the application incredibly addictive. Enjoy. fitfu.com

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JAMES BLAKE DJ SET THE CITY ARTS AND MUSIC PROJECT (THE CAMP) Recently named runner up in BBC’s ‘Sound of 2011’ charts it’s a chance to catch one of the most hyped new artists around. Fresh of the back of his highly anticipated first album, the self titled LP released earlier this month. Blake is already a big name with a bright future amongst a flurry of exciting young UK based artists. The City Arts and Music Project (The CAMP), 70 - 74 City Rd, London, EC1Y 2BJ

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Englefield Road N1

A beautifully presented upper maisonette with a superb westfacing roof terrace, on one of Highbury's most sought after streets

A delightful second floor flat within an attractive semi-detached Victorian building on the corner of Crowland Terrace

reception room | 3 bedrooms | bathoom | kitchen | roof terrace

reception room | bedroom | bathroom | kitchen

Guide price £545,000 share of freehold

Guide price £299,950 share of freehold

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Batchelor Street N1

Morton Road N1

A period house (approx. 1,300 sq ft) arranged over four floors with a private patio garden, in a superb location close to Angel station

A spacious, bright maisonette with a wealth of period features arranged over the top two floors of a substantial period building

2 receptions | 3 bedrooms | 2 bathrooms | kitchen/dining | private patio

reception room | 2 bedrooms | bathroom | kitchen/dining room | garden

£850 per week furnished/unfurnished

£535 per week unfurnished

Matilda Street N1

Upper Street N1

A ground floor apartment within a period conversion, in a desirable Barnsbury location with a feature fireplace

A period apartment with high ceilings, large windows and an open fireplace in a fantastic location close to Angel station

reception room | 2 bedrooms | bathroom | kitchen | communal garden

reception room | 2 bedrooms | bathroom | kitchen

£475 per week furnished

£450 per week furnished

Kingsland Road E8

Ardleigh Road N1

A refurbished split-level apartment in a period building benefiting from a modern interior, wood flooring and a patio garden

A top floor apartment within an attractive period property on a quiet street in De Beauvoir Town with a good sized reception room

reception room | 2 bedrooms | bathroom | kitchen | private patio

reception | bedroom | bathroom | open-plan kitchen

£375 per week furnished

£315 per week furnished

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Brooksby Street, N1 3 Bedrooms

Moon Street, N1 3 Bedrooms

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Freehold £1,150,000

Prebend Street, N1 2/3 Bedrooms

Freehold £895,000

Freehold £880,000

Ellington Street, N7 2 Bedrooms

Freehold £795,000

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Highbury Quadrant, N5

Freehold £1,195,000 6 Bedrooms

Northchurch Road, N1

Leasehold £305,000 1 Bedroom

Brooksby Street, N1

Leasehold £650,000 2 Bedrooms

Cloudesley Street, N1

Leasehold £350,000 1 Bedroom

Haverstock Street, N1

Freehold £650,000 Unmodernised House

Arlington Avenue, N1

Freehold £875,000 2/3 Bedrooms

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“You had me at “Period Features”

Ogle Street, W1 From £2,750,000 - £2,950,000 Freehold

East Road, N1

Two stunning, fully refurbished houses in the heart of Fitzrovia both spanning approximately 2,500 sq. ft. with the highest quality fittings throughout.

A superb selection of one, two and three bedroom flats all newly refurbished in this most central location close to Old Street.

Shepperton Road, N1

Eagle Wharf Road, N1

£399,950 Leasehold

A bright top floor two bedroom flat in good condition throughout with modern kitchen and bathroom and far reaching City views.

£319,500 Leasehold

A modern one double bedroom flat with balcony overlooking the water in this well maintained canal side flat with day concierge service.

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From £499,950 - £1,050,000 Leasehold

313 Upper Street Islington N1 2XQ

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Arlington Avenue, N1

£700 per week

Ebenezer Street, N1

£595 per week

A stunning two bedroom, two bathroom town house set within a quiet, gated mews development overlooking RegentÕ s Canal.

A stunning and contemporary two double bedroom apartment within a sought after development, located minutes from Old Street.

Downham Road, N1

Farringdon Road, EC1

£450 per week

A lovely two double bedroom upper maisonette situated over three floors in a quiet cul-de-sac minutes from Essex Road station.

£400 per week

A very well proportioned one bedroom apartment on the first floor of this Gothic Victorian converted block close to Farringdon station.

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agents directory 1 hamptons 87 Upper Street, Islington, N1 0NP Tel: 020 7359 5675 www.hamptons.co.uk 2 Chesterton humberts 327-329 Upper Street, Islington, N1 2XQ T: 020 7359 9777 www.chestertonhumberts.com 3 WinkWorth 65 Upper Street Islington N1 0NY Tel: 020 7354 2480 www.winkworth.co.uk 4 hugh grover assoCiates 325 Upper Street N1 2XQ Tel: 020 7226 1010 www.hughgrover.co.uk

5 Currell resiDential 321 Upper Street N1 2XQ Tel: 020 7226 4200 www.currell.com 6 next move 320 Upper Street N1 2XQ Tel: 020 7226 5050 www.nextmove.com 7 next move 63 - 65 Stoke Newington Church Street Stoke Newington N16 0AR Tel: 020 7254 9709 www.nextmove.com 8 thomson Currie 313 Upper Street N1 2XQ Tel: 020 7354 5224 www.thomsoncurrie.co.uk 9 Where next Leroy House, Unit 3Q, 436 Essex Road, N1 3QP Tel: 020 3176 4150 www.wherenextislington.co.uk 10 bairstoW eves 108-109 Upper Street N1 1QN Tel: 020 7267 2704 www.bairstoweves.co.uk stirling aCkroyD Clerkenwell Branch - 020 7405 1288 Shoreditch Branch - 020 7749 3838 www.stirlingackroyd.com FeliCity J lorD 67-71 Goswell Road EC1V 7EP Tel: 0207 251 9449 www.fjlord.co.uk briDge 98a Curtain Rd, Shoreditch EC2A 3AA Tel: 020 7749 1400 www.bridge.co.uk

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£380PW

A well presented two bedroom apartment set within this period property on Camden Road. Accommodation offers two double bedrooms, reception, fitted kitchen and a luxury bathroom. Located close to the shops and restaurants of Camden and Kentish Town.

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Balls Pond Road, n1

£355PW

A bright, recently refurbished one double bedroom apartment situated in central Islington. Forming part of a prominent corner building, the first floor property affords easy access to Highbury & Islington Station, the numerous amenities of Essex Road, fashionable Upper Street and Angel tube.

t R le Ila Red I sImQu Re

£325PW

A large newly refurbished furnished 2 double bedroom first and second floor maisonette located within a 10 minute walk of Highbury & Islington station. The flat comprises large living room and separate kitchen, 2 double bedrooms, bathroom and is neutrally decorated throughout Essex Road and Upper Street are moments away.

southgate Road, n1

£250PW

A spacious one bedroom flat set on the top floor of a period property. Comprising a well proportioned living area, separate kitchen, one double bedroom and a bathroom. Southgate Road offers several shops and amenities and is within easy walking distance to Essex Road. Various bus routes and Essex Road train station link the area with The City.

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TibberTon Square, n1

£385,000

a beautifully presented two bedroom conversion in this Grade ii listed Georgian building, situated in this popular square location, being within easy access of the angel, Highbury & islington station and upper street with its array of vibrant bars & restaurants. the property has been maintained to a high standard by the current owner and an internal inspection is recommended to be fully appreciated.

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CalDy Walk, n1

£370,000

Generously arranged over three floors, this well presented three bedroomed house offers a great location in the heart of Canonbury. the property comprises spacious living room, bright kitchen with dining area, three bedrooms, bathroom, guest cloakroom and patio which is ideal for dining al fresco. Perfectly located, the property is well facilitated by the trendy amenities of upper street and essex road.

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Co. Clare, irelanD

¤289,000

restored and extended stone built cottage in tranquil rural setting convenient to Kilmaley village. C. 3 acre site with possible potential for further development subject to planning. Completely restored with high level of finish and tasteful décor throughout. C. 3 acre site with considerable road frontage and potential for further development.

upper GullanD Walk, n1 £225,000 one bedroom duplex apartment located just off essex road in islington n1. the property comprises spacious reception room, with a separate kitchen, white three piece bathroom suite, one double bedroom on the upper level and excellent storage throughout. the property would ideally benefit from some cosmetic work offered on a leasehold basis. (535 sQ.Ft, 49.7 sQ.M)

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