Chef’s Diaries 4: Don’t Ask Me if I Like My Job
Performatively moral groups of foodies dish out recommendations for restaurants they love, and in the same breath chunter about how it must be so hard to work under such tough conditions. What I find shocking is that I have never had a single person make the leap that those same conditions are likely behind the meal they so enjoyed, literally not one, ever.
In The Dwindling Light
Sara Scheeres is a writer and photographer living in London. In this project, Sara reflects on the life of her Nonna, and the lessons passed down to her via the rhythms of daily life. In the Dwindling Light the kitchen is a place to weather life’s surrounding chaos and calmly pass from one day to the next.
Chef’s Diaries 3: Feelings
Mateo Austin is a new chef living in London. Chef’s Diaries shares extracts from his journals, documenting the beginning of his exciting career in professional kitchens.
Is It Me, or Does a Watermelon from Eataly cost £70?
Joseph Lyons unpacks how a watermelon from Italy could possible cost £70
Loving (and Losing) Patrizia
A cautionary tale against fetishising cultures that are not yours. Based on a true story.
A couple of kulhads on the dashboard.
Akshadha Gupta unlocks a core memory - she and her father sharing kulhads in the car.
I’ve Been Thinking About Cake (and Politics or Whatever?)
For Hannah Radley, people’s personal lives have always been more interesting than policy making. For both Hannah and her hero, Nora Ephron, one of the best ways to understand the intersection between the private and the political is through food.
Chef’s Diaries 1: Why am I Here?
Mateo Austin is a new chef living in London. Chef’s Diaries shares extracts from Mateo’s journals as he discovers his place in the professional kitchen.