Leslie Geddes-Brown Amazing places to stay: The Ritz-Carlton, Abama Leslie Geddes-Brown visits luxury hotel The Ritz-Carlton, Abama in Tenerife. This year’s best cookbooks We list our favourite cookery books published this year. Spectator celebrates good design Leslie Geddes Brown celebrates the best in design while wishing she could be more of a minimalist Recipes for wild samphire Leslie Geddes-Brown loves the curious taste of wild samphire, with recipe ideas from Mark Hix and Sarah Raven.