Home economics may have disappeared from the curriculum in UK schools but the need for it hasn’t, as my article published on 8 March in Waitrose Weekend explains. Modern home…
This is a handy guide I wrote for those in search of food inspiration for each month of the year. Featured in Waitrose Weekend’s Christmas issue. Illustration by Andrew Lyons.…
This is a piece I wrote for Waitrose Food in August 2016 on the Columbian Exchange, which was the flow of foods, plants, bacteria…you name it…between the New World and…
For the March 2015 issue of Waitrose Kitchen magazine, I interviewed Jose Pizarro, Ken Hom, Shelina Permalloo, Jeremy Lee and Anissa Helou about the culinary inheritance they learned from their…
Carol Trewin was by all accounts a food writer who made a difference. She made a difference to the farmers, producers, chefs, rural businesses and communities she wrote about, because…
If you want to know how to make the best salted caramel, in my opinion you should look no further than chocolatier Paul A Young’s recipe. A couple of years…
I recently picked up a secondhand copy of Madhur Jaffrey’s Eastern Vegetarian Cooking, first published as World-of-the-East Vegetarian Cooking in America in 1981, then in the UK two years later.…
White chocolate ice cream is a particular favourite of mine, so when I recently got a copy of ice cream BIBLE, Ice creams, sorbets & gelati: The definitive guide by…
Chicken, eggs and lots of tomatoes? All fried together in a pan? What’s not to like? On the face of it, quite a lot. I can appreciate that the idea…
These wheat free brownies – yes, wheat free – are as good as the wheat flour kind. I promise. (Or your money back.) The recipe is very simple and came…
