
Wine & Food Killers: Fennel, Lemon & Goat Cheese Risotto and Denavolo Catavela Bianco 2023
Once, I was asked to write an article about pairing beer with comfort food. I found the brief tough. After all, what is comfort food? For most of us, the...
Once, I was asked to write an article about pairing beer with comfort food. I found the brief tough. After all, what is comfort food? For most of us, the...
There are few better teachers – or creative constraints – than necessity. The best of my cooking over the past year has arisen out of leftovers that urgently needed using:...
I’m not on TikTok (after spending much of the past decade donating large parcels of my brain to social media, I’m moved to defend the last stake of my sanity),...
At most weddings, the food is barely worth remembering – but at this one, there were empanadas. Beef empanadas, cheese empanadas, all dressed in a deliriously spicy orange sauce. I remember them,...
I am a creature of habit. When July comes, I know it’s time to eat as many tomatoes and peaches and nectarines as I can. The opposite of a squirrel hoarding...
The season of no-cooking cooking has arrived at last. By which I mean: mangoes and stone fruit eating drippingly over the sink, or with granita or sorbet on the side....
The practice of wine pairing has its particular diktats that most of us have seemed to internalise. “Red meat goes with red wine”, “only serve fish and white meat with...
Recently, I’ve fallen for artichokes. I enjoy the appeal of their unyielding exteriors and thorn-tipped leaves, the knowledge that they need to be plucked and peeled and sliced, eviscerated of their...
In the deepest ebb of the winter doldrums, I stumbled upon a recipe for “winter caprese salad”. Instead of fresh tomatoes, the recipe roasted cherry tomatoes until candy-sweet, paired them...
I love winter food. The hearty stews and braises, brothy noodles, warming curries, all those root vegetables and citrus fruits… There’s no better time to hold a steaming bowl of...
For many, January is a time of deprivation, of restoring a lost balance thrown off by those prior weeks of feasting and merrymaking. I, too, feel a pull towards asceticism...
Lately, I’ve been thinking about the main courses we serve during the holidays: the enormous bronze turkeys, the resplendently glazed hams, the hearty legs of lamb, even the occasional goose...
I wasn’t supposed to do any more cooking – especially not baking. It was the week before moving house and the plan was to eat through the last of our...
I am overjoyed to report that baking season is finally back. Turning on your oven is no longer a misery – actually, as it heats up your kitchen and fills...