First Things Thomas Erikson He's worked with celebrated chef

He's worked with celebrated chef Eric Ripert as wine director of three-Michelin-starred Le Bernardin for over a decade

The Lady and the Little Fox Fur is an existential feminist classic about an old woman who lives alone in a tiny attic flat in Paris

and unalterable - gender

punctuated by standout flavours like hot honey browned butter

First Things Thomas Erikson He's worked with celebrated chefFirst memory. First going hitchhiking. First seeing my father angry. First shotgun. First poem. In First Things, Harry Ricketts chronicles his early life through the lens of firsts : those moments that can hold their detail and potency across a lifetime. Set mostly in Hong Kong and Oxford, these bright fragments include the places, people, writers, encounters and obsessions that have shaped Ricketts world, from his first friends and rivals to his