Recipe: Spaghetti alla Elizabeth Taylor
Of all the famous love affairs in the actress Elizabeth Taylor’s life, her infatuation with Portofino was one of the most enduring. It’s the town where she celebrated four of her honeymoons and where Richard Burton first proposed to her on the wisteria covered balcony of Suite 471 at Splendido in 1964 during a break from filming Cleopatra. While her taste in jewellery was famously opulent, when it came to food, she liked to keep things simple.
Play The Sun Before Dawn
In April 2024, Ballón and the writer Laurence Blair set out on the trail of Mansio Serra de Leguizamón – often called the Last Conquistador. As well as playing a formative role in one of Peru’s most painful periods of history, Serra de Leguizamón happens to be a distant relative of Ballón’s. Dying in 1589 in Cusco – the former Inca capital – aged 78, Serra de Leguizamón was allegedly wracked with guilt at his part in destroying the Inca realm, which by then then he saw as a lost utopia where “all things, from the greatest to the smallest, had their place and order.”
