Feast your eyes
Tuck into past articles, hear cutlery on the plates of the world, and sit with me in the simple joy of a story told and a meal shared.
Marmalade - my Great Grandmother and a Great Bear
Paddington and my Great Grandmother’s Moulinex keep my company
Where water is king - Bani Hayoune, Morocco
Learning about life where water is scarce
All the right stars - journey to the Sahara
An eventful journey to the Sahara desert
Sesame Stories - bakery, Essaouira
Baking cookies, and sharing their recipes, in a surf-bakery in Essaouira, Morocco
Smoke and spice - Moroccan winter salads
Two pivotal parts of Moroccan cooking that have stood out to me, in two exceptional dishes.
Body and vine: ratio over recipe in the West Bank
Learning to make warak dewali where there is no recipe to be seen. A 2018 reminisce on how the body holds its own culinary memory.
Tomatoes and sumud in the West Bank
In a place where conflict permeates life, food is a medium through which women steadfastly resist occupation and the societal expectations imposed upon their gender.
Flavour profile: Lucy Cottle, food styling assistant and recipe developer
For our first Flavour Profile, food stylist, recipe developer and good friend of mine, Lucy Cottle, sat down with me to share tales of supperclub nerves, hunting for the perfect star anise and finding her feet in a very different world to the one we first met in.
Why I love food stories
The Flavour Narratives was born out of my love for food stories. Trying to understand why they are important will be a lifetime’s project, but these are the first chapters.
My first cake
It seems only fair that, at the beginning of an adventure to hear and share food stories from around the world, I show my culinary colours from the start.