Sophie dahl

Sophie Dahl is pregnant.

We chart the style of the British model and author

The model, writer and cook known for her healthy, flavour-packed recipes shares her secrets

Sophie Dahl in the 1990's.

Author Sophie Dahl on her favourite things THE CANDLE I LOVE TO LIGHT IS… Diptyque’s wonderful Baies, or Odalisque by Cire Trudon. MY SIGNATURE LIPSTICK IS… Lisa Eldridge’s Velvet Muse. It’s a beautiful, rosy brown, and is infinitely wearable. MY FAVOURITE INDEPENDENT SHOP IS… The Winding Stair bookshop in Dublin. Old books, new books and a cafe. Heaven. I’m also a fan of Lassco salvage yards. MY FOODIE WEAKNESS IS… Salted chocolate in any form. for FLOWERS, I CALL… Scarlet & Violet. Vic

This page will be used as a bit of an "overflow" from some of the other pages in the "Sophie-ography" or "The Diary". Blogger is a bit of a pain when it comes to amending already published pages, so I thought I would add any extra pictures here instead. I will also use it to publish extra pictures that I happen to like, for events already represented "visually" on those pages. There are 50+ images here, and it might get a bit bigger in future. I would imagine most shots will come from the…

I grew up surrounded by glamorous women.

Snapped at a restaurant in Primrose Hill, North London, model Sophie Dahl at first shows a brief flash of her pearly whites as she rests her face on her hand.

My great-grandmother Marion was born in one of the poorest wards in Glasgow in 1872. She was a milliner who was left widowed at a young age with two small children, after her first husband died in the Glasgow Royal Lunatic Asylum at Gartnavel. Five years later she quietly married a retired engineer, 20 years her senior, and together they moved from Scotland to Leeds. It was there my grandmother Violet was born. After a staid childhood, and much to her strict Presbyterian parents’ horror…

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