Food
How to be a vegan – and an Oxford student
I have a disturbing secret to admit, which might cause people to think I’m crazy, and Katie Hopkins to think I’m smelly: I’m vegan.
I have been vegan for over...
Coffeesmith – the paw-fect café?
I can’t think of many better ways to be welcomed into a café than...
Food in Ramadan: Fast or feast?
Take a deep breath in, and hold. Hold it for as long as you...
To all the pubs we’ve loved before – Three Goats Heads
Week 7 – for the normal student, we are approaching the end of term,...
To all the pubs we’ve loved before: pitch(er) perfect
The fifth week blues are hitting so we are combatting them with blue lagoons!...
Do It For the Gram: Dalgona Heartbreak
I’ve grammed my food exactly once in my nineteen years. In my defence, it was Thanksgiving, the food is really only in the lower...
In Defence of a Goddess: why I love Nigella
In the comedy Miranda, Penny, Miranda’s preposterous
mother, laments that her daughter ‘hasn’t been blessed by the goddess of
socialising.’ ‘There isn’t a goddess of socialising’,...
Nora Ephron, and Why You Should Never Regret the Potatoes
"I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them," says Nora Ephron in her thinly-veiled autobiographical novel, Heartburn,...
Why food festivals matter
Every year on Shrove Tuesday, I put aside the time to make
my family pancakes - despite the fact that my parents would much prefer...
Tradition and transformations: reconnecting through food
What is your
Christmas smell? Mine is cinnamon. At that time of year, it seems to spill off
the table and into every bowl and dried...
‘L’appetito viene mangiando’: why Southern Italian food is the best in the world
To make Italian food is a labour of love, and requires a love of labour
Food waste apps: small difference or meaningful change?
64% of all food waste actually occurs during harvest
Diversity, waste, and travel: what globalisation means for food
For many people, being at home during lockdown means that there is
an abundance of time to spend preparing, eating, and thinking about food.
Combined with...
The Real Cost of Eating Out
It’s a familiar feeling. You enter a restaurant, sit down, and by the time you open the menu and see the outrageous pricing, it’s...
Food for Comfort
Age 11, my secret banking password was RoastBeef, so, yes, I would call myself a foodie. Age 21, I eat three square meals under lockdown, so...
The Kitchen as a Political Space
Men tend to ‘enter into’ the kitchen whereas women are understood to be already there.
Genetically Modified Foods: Friend or Foe?
The EU has not approved any genetically modified (GM) fruit
or vegetables as safe for human consumption and in the UK they are mainly used
to...
Domestic, Religious, Uncanny: the Symbolism of Food in Art
The quotidian, comforting presence of food renders the trope ripe for subversion
A bygone age: restaurant reviews
I revel in the hyperbolic criticisms of journalists whose only job is to become eloquently irate about slightly sub-par food.
