Burmese and Southeast Asian food is all about balance – bringing together fresh vegetables, pulses, nuts, fruits, fermented foods and just the right amount of preserved ingredients. The results are vibrant dishes packed with salty, sweet, sour, bitter and umami flavours, with plenty of crunch, chew and comfort along the way.

It’s food that excites the senses while naturally supporting gut health and wellbeing. As practising doctors, the Amy and Emily have seen how diet shapes lives – and lived it themselves. Between long NHS shifts and family demands, they have found the antidote: fast, flexible recipes that restore energy, bring joy, and fit into real-world routines.

From zingy salads and nourishing noodle bowls to soul-warming curries and indulgent sweet treats, discover simple, adaptable recipes made with supermarket-friendly ingredients. Recipes include ube butter mochi, turmeric sauerkraut, steamed chicken curry buns, shan noodles and pandan custard tarts.

‘Amy and Emily have real medical know-how – no forbidden foods or finger-wagging, just smart advice and brilliant Burmese-inspired flavour.’ Yotam Ottolenghi

Amy and Emily Chung have Burmese and Chinese heritage, born and bred in London. They are NHS doctors, passionate cooks with a strong supper club and social media following. Emily qualified in 2007, has completed internal medicine training and is now specialising as a Consultant Physician in sexual health and HIV at Barts Health; Amy qualified in 2013 and is a Specialty Registrar in Psychiatry in Hackney. Amy and Emily are also known as The Rangoon Sisters.

In association with James Allen’s Girls’ School.

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This is a story about how to begin.

In 1921, Elisabeth Ephrussi writes a letter to the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke. She too is a poet, or an aspiring one – a young law student in Vienna just beginning her creative life. To her surprise, Rilke writes back with advice. A five-year correspondence follows, an exchange of lyrical and exhortatory letters alongside books, translations, poems in manuscript. They never meet.

Fifty years later, Elisabeth’s grandson, Edmund de Waal, wants to be a poet and a potter. He sends her his own poetry, and she responds with guidance and Rilke’s Duino Elegies.

How to Begin follows Edmund’s journey as an artist. This is a book about failure, about starting again, about apprenticeship and asking for and then disregarding advice, about working out ways to keep going when you don’t know how. It is for any reader starting out, seeking the permission to begin.

Edmund de Waal is a contemporary artist, potter and author. His family memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes won the Costa Biography Award and the RSL Ondaatje Prize, and has sold over a million copies worldwide. The White Road, a journey into the history of porcelain, was followed by the Sunday Times-bestselling Letters to Camondo.

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Join us for an evening of wine tasting with Jancis Robinson, one of the world’s leading experts on wine, to celebrate the publication of the ninth edition of The World Atlas of Wine.

You’ll taste six different wines in total and Jancis will guide you through the tasting notes and history of each wine. Jancis will also address the topics of most vital interest to today’s wine-growers and drinkers including the impact of climate change resulting in new wine-growing in the far north of Europe and the sustainability initiatives being explored globally.

Few wine books can be called classic, but the first edition of The World Atlas of Wine made publishing history when it appeared in 1971 and subsequent editions have ensured it remains the most authoritative, must-have wine reference work available. This ninth edition will bring readers, both old and new, up to date with the fascinating and rewarding world of wine.

With beautiful photography throughout, Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson, the world’s most respected wine-writing duo, working with esteemed maps editor Julia Harding, have once again joined forces to create a classic that no wine lover can afford to be without.

In association with James Allen’s Girls’ School. With thanks to Dulwich Vintners for supplying the wine.

Please note: this is an 18+ only event.

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Join us for a pub quiz with a difference! We’re delighted to be working with DK and Formula 1® on their official Formula 1®quiz book and can’t wait to host this exciting evening to test your Formula 1®knowledge.

Go head-to-head with family and friends and do whatever it takes to be The Official F1® Quiz Book champion.

• How many red lights go out, indicating the start of an Formula 1® Grand Prix™?
• What percentage of a race needs to be completed in order to award full points to the top 10 finishers?
• Approximately how much body weight does the average Formula 1® driver lose to sweat during a Grand Prix™?

Maximum six people per team or join a potluck table! Buying individual tickets? Make sure everyone in your group uses the exact same Team Name when booking so we can allocate you to the same table.

There will be a licensed bar open throughout the evening.

With thanks to the Crown & Greyhound pub for hosting us!

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