Jocasta Innes, author of best-selling budget cookery classic, The Pauper’s Cookbook and over sixty other titles on cookery, interior decoration and lifestyle, is giving a free talk for fans at the Eastside Books bookshop on Brick Lane on Saturday June 13th between 12 noon and 1pm. She will be making dishes for visitors to try – some will feature great local ingredients from shops on Brick Lane like the well-known Taj Stores, a few doors down. Come along for a convivial chat about food, tasting session and book signing at Eastside Books in Spitalfields!

If you want to have a green and guilt-free Christmas this year, look no further than the Eco Design Christmas Fair 2008. This event has been run by Louise Kamara since 2004 and has become very popular as it’s a great opportunity for designer-makers and small retailers to show their wares. It’s a fantastic place to pick up Christmas presents – I bought everything from clockwork toys for children to a keyring made from a circuit board as a stocking filler last year. This year it’s moved to the East End’s fabulous Brick Lane (so handy for me, and for everyone else I hope) and Mimimyne is going to be there! I hope you can come along and see us and admire all the fantastic wares that will be on offer this year.

Saturday 13th December – 12am – 7pm.
Sunday 14th December – 11am – 7pm.

The Boiler House
The Old Truman Brewery
152 Brick Lane
London E1 6RU