For six months I’ve been working on a job I began referring to as the boomerang project because it just kept coming back. With the result finally at the printers, I’m leaving Amsterdam for a few days. Foolishly.

Few things seem to divide foodies more than cupcakes. Google 'hate cupcakes' and over 11 million venom-filled results will be returned (compared to 41 million for 'love cupcakes', incidentally).