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  • Pioneering food critic Egon Ronay dies aged 94

    Pioneering food critic Egon Ronay dies aged 94

    Described as "London's most food-perfect small restaurant" by Fanny Craddock in her Daily Telegraph column, on the menu were classic French dishes unheard of in Fifties Britain. The son of a prominent restaurateur from…
  • Doris Eaton Travis: Last surviving member of the 'Ziegfeld girls' who worked with Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor

    Doris Eaton Travis: Last surviving member of the 'Ziegfeld girls' who…

    Despite working with the likes of Al Jolson, Fanny Brice and Eddie Cantor, President Woodrow Wilson once waved to her from the audience and George Gershwin ("a nice young man") composed at her family piano.
  • The Big Six: Rural Caribbean retreats

    The Big Six: Rural Caribbean retreats

    Nelson and Fanny Nisbet provides the setting for this elegant lodge. Part of Chris Blackwell's Island Outpost portfolio of Jamaican retreats, Strawberry Hill is the only "outpost" set inland. The former th-century coffee…
  • Trash City, Roundhouse, London

    Le Gateau Chocolat and singer/aerialist Fanny Chance are short on finesse, but at least they have strong personalities. On the cabaret side, Le Gateau Chocolat and Fanny Chance swipe and argue between songs.
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  • Leading article: A woman's place

    Marguerite Patten gave way to Fanny Craddock who gave way to Delia who made room for Nigella. No need to look only at MasterChef for proof. Years ago, women cooks fronted almost all TV food shows, wrote virtually all cookery…
  • Terence Blacker: Nobody has the right to be spared offence

    A televised play on, well, virtually any serious subject might offend viewers: why not do a biopic of Fanny Cradock instead? Such is the nature of cultural debate in 2010. A challenging, good-hearted message from the stage,…
  • Did The Runaways start pop's sexual revolution?

    Did The Runaways start pop's sexual revolution?

    There had been attempts to launch an all-female rock band in the guise of Fanny (David Bowie said they were "as important as anyone has ever been, ever, it just wasn't their time", which just shows how much cocaine he was…
  • Deborah Ross: 'The big news from the catwalks is that sometimes bags are…

    That is, the little bag you wear around your waist and is known in American as a "fanny-pack" although I feel I should warn you of this: never, ever pack your fanny unless you can help it. I packed my fanny once and it then…
  • Ondine, Neil Jordan, 104 mins, (12A)Chloe, Atom Egoyan, 99 mins,…

    In the new version, Fanny Ardant, Gérard Depardieu and Emmanuelle Béart (as Farrell turns in an impressively unstarry performance as a rough-hewn fisherman who spends his days alone on the sea, and his nights alone in a…
  • Frills, flounces and French romantics take the place of the A-list

    Frills, flounces and French romantics take the place of the A-list

    Jared Leto, Lou Doillon (actress and model daughter of Jane Birkin), Fanny This was the first of the Paris heavyweights to show its forthcoming autumn/winter collection in the French fashion capital, the final destination of…

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