Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.When I was a girl, Glasgow felt like a mystical and strange place, with impossibly tall buildings, shrouded in the soot of the great industrial city. You could smell the foundries and factories, and people thronged the streets, many of them smoking, my father among them, a lawyer travelling to and from the city by train. We lived 20 miles south-west in Kilmarnock, where Massey Ferguson tractors were built, the famed Johnnie Walker whisky distilled and the first edition of Robert Burns poetry published. But the trip to Glasgow was thrilling.\u00a0Often, I would stay with my granny. As a treat we would go to the cartoon cinema in Renfield Street, have afternoon tea on Byres Road or visit the Kelvingrove Art Gallery. I remember walking with her along the long balcony overlooking the central hall, and at the end coming face to face with Dal\u00ed\u2019s Christ of St John of the Cross. The painting terrified me \u2013 I was no more than eight years old. It\u2019s a place I still love to visit.As a student, I found my love of architecture walking in the city, looking up at buildings that took Italianate, French, Dutch and Egyptian architecture and made it all Glasgow\u2019s own. On every corner you can look up at a building with a stylish detail; a window with a stained-glass ship, a scroll carved in the sandstone, a glorious gargoyle or ironwork forged in the city\u2019s foundries. The story goes that New York planners took their inspiration from Glasgow, and the resemblance is still there to me.\u00a0I buy Eusebi\u2019s \u2018Yesterday\u2019s lasagne\u2019 after a long dayGlasgow has always been stylish. I\u2019ve just made a two-part documentary on Scottish fashion and our starting point was 1955, the year I was born, when Christian Dior held his first spring\/summer fashion show in the city. Another recent combination of Scotland and France is La Fetiche. Founders April Crichton and Or\u00e9ly Forestier met while working at Sonia Rykiel in Paris and have created a fun clothing brand in collaboration with local and French manufacturers. I often visit their atelier in a former school in the Gorbals, on the south bank of the River Clyde.\u00a0I like to stop outside Timorous Beasties \u2013 the windows are a riot; surreal montages of psychedelic fabrics crawling with dazzling insects, a sideways take on toile de Jouy. Kate Bush is a big fan. Further into the West End, I reach The University Caf\u00e9, perhaps the most beloved ice-cream parlour in the city, and one of the many wonderful Italian establishments here. It has been owned by the Verrecchia family for four generations. I love to think of my parents going there in the 1940s when they were courting or, as my mother used to say, somewhat unfortunately, \u201cdoing a line\u201d. Eusebi\u2019s is another favourite stop. I buy its famous \u201cYesterday\u2019s Lasagne\u201d after a long day. \u00a0In the \u201970s, sweeping demolitions threatened the city. Now we are reinventing spaces. As a family, we go to Cottiers, a theatre, restaurant and bar in a former Victorian church that\u2019s named after the artist Daniel Cottier, who designed the stained-glass windows and frescoes. It still feels as if he inhabits the building. As often as not a drink turns into a meal \u2013 the French onion soup is not to be missed.\u00a0One of the best things about living in a grand old city are the treasures to be found at auction, and Great Western Auctions is one of my regular haunts. I love the chase of a piece of fine china and the craic is great. On our walls are paintings by Scottish artists that I\u2019ve bid for successfully, even a couple by minor colourists. Don\u2019t skip the charity shops in the West End, where I search out my crystal glasses and the all-important perfect trifle bowl.\u00a0Wandering back from the auction, it\u2019s worth stopping at Ga Ga on Dumbarton Road. This south Asian establishment is by the Malaysian-Scottish chef Julie Lin \u2013 try the sea bream with chilli coconut butter or the sichuan and garlic aubergine. A nightcap on the way home is at Ubiquitous Chip, a Glasgow institution. The walls are decorated by the late, great Alasdair Gray and, ensconced in them, I have a malt \u2013 maybe a Highland Park or an Arran \u2013 before bed. Kirsty Wark is a presenter on BBC Radio 4\u2019s Front Row and\u00a0the host of The Reunion. On 11 May she will be honoured with a BAFTA Fellowship at the 2025 BAFTA Television Awards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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