SARAH RAINEY sent some of her store cupboard antiques for analysis

What’s lurking in your fridge and at the back of your kitchen cupboards? A tin of tuna you’ve had for, gulp, years, or an old block of cheese, plus other sundries well beyond their best before dates? Your instinct is probably to throw them away and so add to the UK’s growing problem with food … Read more

SARAH RAINEY cooks up the recipes after Michelin awards its first star to a vegan French restaurant 

Frogs’ legs, foie gras and steak so blue you can still hear it mooing . . . France is a nation known for its carnivorous cuisine. For decades vegetarianism — or (sacré bleu!) veganism — has been a dirty word. In 2011 the French government tried to ban it in schools, and in 2018 a … Read more

Like Meghan, the Mail’s SARAH RAINEY miscarried this summer

A grainy black-and-white image on a screen. Cold gel on my stomach. Papery sheets crinkling beneath me. The soothing voice of the sonographer — then the panicked look on her face. I remember it only in fragments, like snapshots from a film I wish I could forget. ‘I’m so sorry, Sarah. Your baby doesn’t have … Read more

Great British Bake Off: Peter wins… SARAH RAINEY reviews the cooking show’s 2020 finale 

The Great British Bake Off  Channel 4, Tuesday night    Rating: There were teetering towers of cake, innuendos aplenty – and a meltdown in a fridge. Prue was dressed as a dolly mixture, Paul scowled like a pantomime baddie and Noel made contestants kiss a ‘psychic’ wooden spoon. As Bake Off finals go, it was one … Read more

50 Cent says Michael Rainey Jr. is going to ‘deliver’ in Power Book II: Ghost

Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson has praised rising American actor Michael Rainey Jr. The 45-year-old executive producer said the 19-year-old is going to ‘deliver’ in the lead role in POWER BOOK II: GHOST, as he’s been ‘groomed for it’.  Michael returns as Tariq St. Patrick in Power’s latest instalment, which airs exclusively on Stan in Australia.  … Read more

Rent your life! SARAH RAINEY finds out what items you can hire from clothes, toys and even pets

Many firms now let you hire everything from gadgets and plants to clothes and toys — and even a pet How much ‘stuff’ do you own? Are your wardrobes overflowing with clothes you don’t wear? Is your spare room full of junk? If so, you’re not alone: the average household owns 300,000 items.  But in … Read more

From the diamond clasp to its hidden code, SARAH RAINEY gets a handle on the ultimate must-have

Perhaps you would prefer to buy 19 small family cars. Or one average house, anywhere in the UK. Or even 115,500 big bars of Dairy Milk.  But for one anonymous shopper, there was just one thing they wanted to spend their £231,000 on this week: a Hermes Himalaya Birkin bag. Their purchase set a new world … Read more

Cara Delevingne looks casual chic on dinner date with Margaret Qualley and her sister Rainey in LA

Cara Delevingne looks casual chic on dinner date with pals Margaret Qualley and her sister Rainey in LA By Deirdre Simonds For Dailymail.com Published: 01:11 BST, 26 June 2020 | Updated: 01:11 BST, 26 June 2020 Cara Delevingne appeared in high spirits after enjoying dinner with Margaret Qualley at the Chateau Marmont on Wednesday night in West … Read more