Eight People, One Hob

Nell Whittaker on the unaesthetic mundanity of house-share cooking, plus a kind of recipe for simultaneously preparing multiple meals

Good morning and welcome to Vittles! In today’s cooking essay, Nell Whittaker writes against the depoliticised romanticisation of communal cooking, which seldom acknowledges that many of us live communally out of financial necessity, not choice. Nell shares a set of five unconnected recipes cooked simultaneously on one hob, reflecting the often pedestri…