Sharing

Rachel Roddy’s second book is full of anecdotes and recollections, little narrative vignettes about her immediate household, the extended Sicilian … More

A kitchen quadrivium

This book made a big noise on release, and Spouse bought me a copy for Christmas shortly thereafter, which I … More

Eyes the same size as her stomach

Luchie (as illustrator and cartoonist Lucie Bryon likes to call herself) was apparently blessed with extremely large eyes as a … More

Food as illustration

In Western Europe we take holidays on the Mediterranean, we hear about migrants attempting to cross it, we imagine our … More

Enough of a twist

High Georgian ceilings, above vast, perfectly proportioned sash windows, speak to me of cosy home comfort. Wherever I am, if … More

Congenial hubris

Spouse and I first visited The Sheep Heid Inn at the end of a long walk with Spawn, through Holyrood … More

A ritual of sipping and nibbling

I am wearing my new coat. It is a rather jaunty, fashionable coat, but it is also very smart, so … More

The start of a new history?

Roughly as long as my life has had something resembling its present form, I’ve been going to the Angel in … More

A hangover cure in the form of a building

Comfort comes in nostalgia-sized portions, and for the eponymous ‘Mum’ that nostalgia is focussed on the 1970s. This is evident … More

A life lived in the kitchen

I don’t come from anywhere in particular. I’m a Turkish jew with an Italian name on my father’s side, and … More

Slightly scuffed culinary theatre

I know about as much about Japanese food as you can find out about Italian food by eating in Pizza … More

Putting food in its place

A sense of collective memory is crucial to most people’s sense of self; few seem as happy as those who … More

Connected food

The first time we brought Spawn to Edinburgh to callously abandon her tearful little face in a soulless new-build apartment … More

Molecular anecdoty

I don’t follow cook-book publishing that closely (or indeed at all), but you can’t help noticing a few things if … More