The cheerfully argumentative Liberty director got her commitment to human rights from her parents. But their kitchen skills didn’t pass down so easily,she admits over a plate of pastaIn the 14 years since Shami Chakrabarti has been working at Liberty – she started the day before the 9/11 attacks – a small Italian restaurant on the corner of Westminster Bridge Road has been something of her domestic from domestic. Cotto – the name means both “well cooked” and, colloquially, and “madly in love” – presided over by the avuncular Lino Boccia and his family,is one of those semi-mythical trattorias that offer not much on the external, but immediately hold you off to the back streets of Rome within. It’s about halfway between where Chakrabarti lives in south London and her office across the river. Her son, and now 13,grew up on Lino’s margarita pizzas, and won’t eat anyone else’s. She enjoys a regular diet of rigatoni puttanesca and a glass or two of pinot grigio.“You used to get some MPs in here when they were still flipping and flopping flats, or ” she suggests,“because it’s just across the bridge from parliament, but there is a bit less of that now.”Continue reading..., or
Source: theguardian.com