Features

Beyond Fried Chicken

The curious rise of Korean food in the UK. Words by Yuna Chang and Ha-Joon Chang. Illustration by David Huang.

Apr 28

The Spices in your Welsh Cakes

How the cultural history of the Welsh cake complicates conventional understandings of the role of Wales in the British Empire. Words by Yasmin Begum…

Apr 21

Break My Fast Oh Lord, But Not Yet

Lauren J Joseph on Lenten fasting as a grounding constant in a life lived erratically. Illustration by Sing Yun Lee.

Apr 14

"This is our Indigenous food"

Makepeace Sitlhou investigates the meanings food takes amid an ongoing civil war. Photographs by George AK Neihsial.

Apr 7

Still Hungry: Skipping Breakfast and Flipping Tables in Lesbian Fiction

The riotous history of food in the lesbian feminist publishing movement. Words by Hannah Levene. Illustration by Catrin Morgan.

Mar 31

The Lost Food of Soho

A podcast about the many culinary versions of Soho, by Lucy Dearlove.

Mar 24 •

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Reinventing the Hexagon

Jonathan Meades on Alex Jackson’s Frontières and the French food resurgence. Illustration by Alex Christian.

Mar 8 •

15 Cookbooks That Changed Everything

The most influential British cookbooks of the last 75 years; for better, or for worse, by Ruby Tandoh.

Mar 8 •

Machiavelli in the Kitchen

Rosa Lyster on cooking to win, inspired by 'glamorously unpredictable witch', Caroline Blackwood. Illustration by Jess Nash.

Mar 8 •

Cookbooks in Translation

A compilation of great non-English cookbooks, by Guan Chua, Christie Dietz, Anissa Helou, Ibrahim Hirsi, Saba Imtiaz, TW Lim, Lutivini Majanja, Meher…

Mar 8 •

'There is no recipe, take it or leave it'

Yemisí Aríbisálà on why there are so few Nigerian cookbooks. Illustration by Hannah Ekuwa Buckman.

Mar 8 •

Olivia Sudjic on the inability to eat during pregnancy – and one dish that brought her joy when she became able to eat again. Words and photo by Olivia…

Mar 3 •

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