Crafting Calm in London Hotels July 17, 2025 This is the Montcalm Marble Arch Hotel. It's a true retreat from the city which feels at once peaceful, quiet and deeply luxurious. It is also full of bespoke Kalinko...
The Ultimate Life Hack May 14, 2025 Call me Meghan, but this is actually the answer. Life is too short to waste time looking for your sunglasses, fishing around for keys or waggling a ruler under the sofa...
A History of Egg Cups March 26, 2025 Palaeolithic Protein, Pompeii and dippy eggs for The People Did you know we've been eating eggs for over two million years? Cave paintings from the Palaeolithic era tell us that...
Kalinko Curated by Africa Daley-Clarke January 14, 2025 Africa Daley-Clarke has one of those homes which you'd like to step through your screen and curl up in. It's at once modern and traditional, pared back yet full of...
The Yangon Post: Issue 5 November 11, 2024 Did you know that the Burmese are more into tea than we are? Or that our furniture is made from old Burmese buildings? Or that there are 3000 miles of...
In praise of the Burmese Teashop October 28, 20241 comment You’ll know when you see one: chaotic and bustling, with full grown adults sitting on tiny child-sized stools at knee-high tables, deep in conversation or hidden behind newspapers. The clientele...
Kalinko Curated by Micaela Sharp August 28, 2024 Micaela Sharp is an interior designer, upholsterer and TV design personality whose design theories combine upcycling existing furniture with carefully curated new pieces. An experienced upholsterer herself, she really cares...
Our favourite Burmese salads June 14, 2024 If you'd like to wow your guests, or perhaps just your own taste buds, here are two of my favourite Burmese salads. The recipes come from the Rangoon Sisters, and...
10 Reasons why Easter is the best festival in our calendars March 20, 2024 Number 1 - There is nothing more joyful than daffodils. Put them everywhere. They're £2 in the supermarket, or free from the garden if you're lucky. I put them on the table, in...
Kalinko Curated by Alex Stedman March 15, 2024 Alex is the editor of the award-winning website The Frugality and the owner of a beautiful Edwardian house which she and her husband have renovated very slowly over the past three years. She...
A Home for your Herbs July 25, 2023 Coriander is the king of the herbs in Burmese cooking. It goes in everything; Mohinga noodles in the morning, curry for lunch, fish for dinner. So it makes sense that...
In The Kitchen With: Cat Sarsfield from Since No One Asked January 04, 2023 I've been writing words for Kalinko for the past year, but I also spend my weeks and weekends cooking, eating and writing a tri-weekly newsletter called Since No One Asked, where I...