Ribbons of fennel are tangled on top, along with cool balls of cucumber. Laura’s fois gras is as filthily lascivious as it should be, beautifully cooked and quivering atop a chewy tarte tatin.

A woman wise in the ways of engorged liver, she nods her approval.

There’s room to stretch, and gossip, without fear of being overheard. My scallop ceviche is a very different beast from the Peruvian original, though both are obsessed with the freshness of their fish.She said: "My skin rushed with heat as I looked to my mom.Rating: Two weeks into January and I’ve yet to talk about culinary trends, and my prescient predictions for the thrilling year ahead. A brief suckle on Mammon’s trendy teat, before an eternity of despair, humiliation and self-hate, consigned to the deepest, darkest depths of the shop-soiled discount dungeon.In 2004, she was accused of insulting black party guests at a New York restaurant by allegedly telling them to "go back to the colonies" in a row over noise.

She strongly denied the claims and said she would be "ready to go back to the colonies" during the desipute with the table. Because to suggest a vegan diet, say, or probiotics, prebiotics or sushi-filled bloody doughnut (douchi – I kid you not), will be in fashion means, by its very fickle nature, that it will fall from grace mere moments after.