TOAST Magazine

Each week we publish articles on books, artists, seasonal recipes, travel and the stories of our makers and materials.

PENELOPE FITZGERALD: A LIFE

Penelope Fitzgerald, 1940 Dooley Archive This week, Professor Dame Hermione

12 years ago
ALPINE FLOWERS

Kate O'Brien Last month I spent some time sleeping next to Mont Blanc in a

12 years ago
WORKSPACE / RICHARD COOK

Richard Cook is a painter who, having trained at St Martin's School of Art and

13 years ago
SKATE

Orlando Gough Last week I went to stay in Aldeburgh, on the Suffolk coast,

13 years ago
SPIRIT OF PLACE / PORT ELIOT

Michael Smith As we drove over the water, above Isambard Kingdom Brunel's

13 years ago
JULY TOAST / SYMPHONY OF MINIATURES

"Nat Lucas "Good symphonies are often in some ways an unfolding sequence of"

13 years ago
TEXTURES / ANNA KARENINA

Caroline Davidson My copy of Anna Karenina looks a little as if it's been hit

13 years ago
CACTI

Kate O'Brien The shoe fits when it comes to collective nouns. Consider a flock

13 years ago
SPIRIT OF PLACE / KETTLE'S YARD

Michael Smith I was happily lost in Cambridge, enchanted by its gothic

13 years ago
FAST FOOD / AGA V MICROWAVE

Orlando Gough The other day in the Grauniad, under the headline DON'T KNOCK

13 years ago
JUNE TOAST / ELDERFLOWER TWO WAYS

Nat Lucas Elderflower blooms herald the arrival of picnic season, granting

13 years ago
SEAWEED

Kate O'Brien My interest in seaweed was reawakened last month, a madeleine

13 years ago
A MINI HISTORY OF THE BRETON SHIRT

Andie CusickI saw him pacing through the bedroom and the lofts like those

13 years ago
SPIRIT OF PLACE / DUNGENESS

In his new column Michael Smith responds to the essence of a place Escaping

13 years ago
LA CUCINA FUTURISTA

Orlando Gough Centenary fever! We're facing a fusillade of First World War

13 years ago
MAY TOAST / CLARET CUP (WITHOUT BORAGE)

Nat Lucas toasts the month with a drink (and a sprig) of which Dickens would

13 years ago
WHY MEN LOVE CLOTHES - FASHION VERSUS STYLE

Michael Smith As someone who's always been keen on clothes, I like to imagine

13 years ago
TEXTURES / THERESE RAQUIN

Caroline Davidson on character and cloth in mile Zola's sensational novel The

13 years ago
SEVEN A DAY

Orlando Gough Whoa! Seven a day! And I'm not talking about Shane Warne. The

13 years ago
EARLY MORNING AND THE LIGHT PALE AND CLEAR OVERHEAD

Jamie Seaton Leaving the bustle of the medina, through the jostling traffic

13 years ago
WHY MEN LOVE CLOTHES CRAFT BEARDS

Michael Smith I remember noticing the style beginning to coagulate a little

13 years ago
MOOD INDIGO

Katherine May is an artist for whom the aesthetic qualities of textiles are

13 years ago
FISH AND CHIPS

Orlando Gough When my wife Jo and her partner Sally were running their

13 years ago
My Cultural Life Jamie Seaton

TOAST co-founder Jamie Seaton tells Elle Decoration what he is reading,

13 years ago