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Ella Risbridger

  • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
    Food & Beverage
    Why our love for ancient food and drink has no sell-by date

    Direct links to our culinary past remind us that humans really haven’t changed that much

    Bottles containing centuries-old cherries discovered at George Washington’s estate in Mount Vernon, Virginia
  • Saturday, 25 May, 2024
    FT SeriesFood & Drink summer recipe special
    A crash course in better baking: Ella Risbridger meets Nicola Lamb

    A bake-shy cook learns the science behind collapsed sponges and cement-like cakes

  • Saturday, 11 May, 2024
    UK society
    Why we need feuding families in our lives

    Scheming sons and warring sisters give us a narrative to help interpret our own clan tangles

    Jessica, Nancy, Diana, Unity and Pamela Mitford in 1935
  • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
    Gaming
    Tampering with Scrabble is a losing strategy

    A new version of the game promises to drain it of everything that makes it so compelling

    A Scrabble box sits on a board used for the game
  • Saturday, 18 November, 2023
    Mental health
    Can you keep a secret? Try, it’s good for you

    In the age of the like, the share and the overshare, enjoy the quiet glee of hanging on to good news

    A picture of a forest. If a tree falls in a forest and nobody posts a leaf-strewn, autumnal image on Instagram, did it really happen?
  • Saturday, 23 September, 2023
    FT SeriesDinner parties — an FT Magazine food and drink special
    How to host a cooking party

    From kimchi parties to jam making — five ideas for what to cook with family or friends

  • Saturday, 15 July, 2023
    Aretha Franklin
    Aretha Franklin’s will and the enduring mystery of lost things

    The Queen of Soul’s last testament, found down the back of her sofa, has all the makings of a great detective novel

    An African-American woman dressed in red holds two red pompoms on a television stage
  • Saturday, 29 April, 2023
    Fiction
    Love is in the air — and finally returns to our books and screens

    We’ve had a decade of broken hearts and bleak novels but the romcom is rising again

    A still from the film Rye Lane
  • Saturday, 17 December, 2022
    UK property
    Our eternal obsession with the literary property

    Evelyn Waugh saga shows how the physical reality of famous authors’ houses lends itself to their words

    Evelyn Waugh’s former home of Piers Court
  • Saturday, 18 June, 2022
    FT SeriesFantasy dinner parties
    Ella Risbridger’s fantasy dinner party: Nancy Mitford, Lord Peter Wimsey, Madhur Jaffrey and Nina Simone

    The cook and author of ‘Midnight Chicken’ and ‘The Year of Miracles’ craves good gossip, a sea view and ripe tomatoes

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