Author Gaby Soutar

You know what’s annoying when you’re hangry? When people say you might just be dehydrated, because hunger is often mistaken for thirst. Oh great, I’ll cancel my pizza delivery and get them to send...

I have a muesli wardrobe. It’s stocked with about five different varieties, from the bulk oaty variety, via a brown-sugar crusted granola and a puffed rice thing with coconut shavings. In the morning,...

My mother is clever, wonderful and very good at lots of things. (Hi Mum!). However, even though I probably won’t get my 50p per week pocket money after saying this, cooking ain’t her forte. If we go...

"Yes, and we’re out of alligators too,” says the patient waiter. On our visit to the new Tollcross branch of Bodega, they were sold out of crocodile pie (£5), and I was just wondering if that was...

      This place is like me in any childhood PE class – always last to be picked.   (That may have been down to my resting unenthusiastic face, my flailing arms while...

I like to think that, if I were a dog, I’d be an elegant saluki or Italian greyhound. Instead, it’s more likely that my canine doppelganger would be a doughy shar pei, an elderly chihuahua in a tartan...

Faux flowers have fairly come on, haven’t they? I used to work in a shop that sold them, and they were easily distinguishable from the real thing, what with the frayed polyester petals and plastic blobs...

Lamb chops, mince and gammon steaks. It seems a long time since they were weekday staples. Round at my casa, we don’t eat a lot of meat any more. After a straw poll, it seems that this drift to...

Alkaline, metabolic, longevity, ketogenic. There are a lot of trendy diets doing the rounds this January. Not in my office though, where 2:5 colleagues are doing the classic 5:2, a few are cutting down...

My mum once took a flight to see the Aurora Borealis. When the plane arrived at the perfect height and latitude, anticipation was at peak level, with all the passengers pressing their snouts against the...