Author: Tiffany Vincent

In Leipers Fork, Tennessee, Wynonna Judd’s farm has a hill behind it. She had been unable to climb it for years without experiencing a physical uprising. When she eventually reached the top without stopping, or as she famously described it, without throwing up, she realized that something had actually changed. Not just in her legs or lungs, but somewhere harder to pinpoint. Wynonna Judd’s weight loss story is not a neat before-and-after account with a gym sponsor and a famous nutritionist. That’s not as messy as it is. More human. And to be honest, that’s probably the reason it still…

Most people who have battled with weight will immediately recognize the moment Tiffany Franco describes. Standing somewhere in the middle of her life, with two children dependent on her, a failing marriage, and a body that had grown to almost 300 pounds, she looked at herself and said something straightforward but decisive: enough. Not exactly with rage. It’s more like tiredness. The kind that subtly turns into a pivotal moment. For the past few years, Franco, the former cast member of 90 Day Fiancé who gained popularity on TLC due to her difficult relationship with Ronald Smith, has been involved…

The story of Elliott Grover has an almost unbelievable quality. A Cornwall boy who was afraid of the London Tube managed to serve roast beef and fish and chips to Roger Federer, Lady Gaga, and Brendan Fraser at the Academy Awards. It sounds like a pitch that a screenwriter might make and then discreetly drop because it’s too polished. However, it did occur. Actually, twice. At fifteen, Grover emailed chef Mark Hix at the Ivy, Covent Garden, to ask for a job. By his own admission, he was primarily motivated by the money rather than the experience or any intense…

A certain type of ambition doesn’t make a big announcement. It simply keeps appearing year after year in the plate’s quality and in the obstinacy of a man who ought to have been content long ago by most standards. That type of man was Simon Wood, a former MasterChef champion who now owns a restaurant in Manchester. “I want to have a Michelin star restaurant, and I’ll do it,” he once declared with the calm certainty of someone who had already talked himself into harder things. He had won the BBC’s most-watched cooking competition in 2015, opened two restaurants in…

A particular type of chef never quite receives the national attention they merit. They are not opening restaurants in Mayfair or pursuing TV appearances. In a region of the nation that most food critics can’t bring themselves to visit, they are quietly working on something more challenging: creating a place that people truly adore. For almost twenty years, Stephen Terry’s Abergavenny restaurant served as evidence that Welsh cuisine could compete with anything London had to offer. At Harvey’s, the now-famous Chelsea eatery that also gave birth to Gordon Ramsay, Terry received training from Marco Pierre White. It’s difficult to ignore…

A certain type of cookbook is more than just a book on a shelf. Despite having tomato sauce on page 47 and flour on the cover, it manages to become the book you turn to on a Tuesday night when everything seems like too much work. Nigella Lawson is most likely the author of that book for many home cooks in Europe, America, and Britain. With twelve cookbooks published and more than eight million copies sold globally, it’s reasonable to wonder what she’s been doing so well all along. By today’s standards, her debut book, How to Eat, was released…

When a MasterChef contestant realizes that the bistro doors are going to open and actual, paying customers are coming in expecting a proper meal, a certain kind of dread descends upon them. Not a plate set up for three judges. Not a mystery box with a time limit. A real dinner service, with tables filling up, courses arriving in waves, and Gordon Ramsay standing at the pass, observing each dish as it comes out of the kitchen. The show has always recognized that it’s an entirely different animal. In both the US and UK versions of MasterChef, the Restaurant Takeover…

It seems like everything changed at one point. Wayne Rooney saw what the rest of us had been witnessing for some time when he watched himself on television during the Premier League season: a man who had somewhat overlooked things. Enough, but not dramatically or in a way that encourages cruelty. Enough that he would notice. After decades of following Rooney’s career, one thing you quickly discover about him is that he sticks to his decisions. The change had already begun by the time the World Cup began in the summer of 2026. Watchers of the BBC’s coverage of France’s…

On the highest dose, there is a point around week ten when people report noticing that their portions are getting smaller without really trying. Not in a big way. Not in a single day. Food that would have otherwise vanished is left on the plate during a silent shift. That’s the experience building up around Wegovy’s pill form, and it’s beginning to take on significant weight. The injectable version of Wegovy has been around long enough to establish a solid reputation. After a year, the average body weight loss from its weekly injection studies was about 14%, which was sufficient…

There are times in a parent’s life that are difficult to put into words. Sometime in the last few years, Katie Price experienced one of those moments when she sat across from medical professionals and, according to her own account, pled with them to assist her son. Not out of conceit. Not for aesthetic reasons. Because she truly feared that he might not survive. The 24-year-old Harvey Price has experienced a variety of circumstances throughout his life that would put anyone to the test. At the center of it all is Prader-Willi syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that basically rewires…