Learning to cook
I suppose the lingering question is: barring a wider distribution of Depression Era grandmothers, can you learn to cook out of a book? Or a blog…
cooking from scratch
Super-Easy Home Fermentation
These are simple things with only a few steps. The microbial communities are robust and resilient, so they can be neglected for days or weeks and then brought back to life. They yield more than one product we find useful. In short, perfect ferments for beginners.
Food for a Small Planet
In the process of changing our habits we change the way business does business. The majority of the consumption of resources is done by the world’s most developed economies.
The Front Burner of Food Policy
A good stint at home cooking should be a prerequisite for anyone who’s a city food policy practitioner. Home cooking deserves to be on the front burner of good food policy.
Cooking Stirs the Pot for Social Change
Cooking may seem like an act of self-preservation, an act that is both self-serving and necessary, but if you look beyond the immediate and beyond the narrow definition of what cooking is, you can see that cooking is and has always been an act of resistance.
The Criminal Palate: A Halloween Tale
We speak today of food felons, for they walk anonymously among us. Their despicable, unimaginable, reprehensible crime against society: a lifelong disrespect and disregard for producing and indulging in good food. Like the dying punk in “Repo Man,” I blame society.
A Recipe for Change
In Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation, Michael Pollan describes his personal journey of stepping away from processed and packaged foods toward cooking from scratch, and highlights the grievous consequences of industrial modernity in the daily arena of eating and drinking.
Eating Well on Nearly Nothing
If you had less than £3 per day to spend on food, what would you eat?
Blessed are the Cheesemakers
Until relatively recently in human history, making cheese was an intensely local, home or village craft passed down and adapted generation to generation.
Why Cooking Matters
How does the food we eat affect us as people?
Eating Skint
If you’re young and hard up, eating a varied, delicious and high quality diet can seem a starry-eyed dream, never mind trying to eat consciously or sustainably. But with a little time and thought, it need not be so.
Mama Food
Writing books and essays about food, I hear a lot of stories about what people ate growing up.