Food
To all the pubs we’ve loved before – Three Goats Heads
Week 7 – for the normal student, we are approaching the end of term, for the less normal; it is hack week on St Michael’s Street! For our last...
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!...
To all the pubs we’ve loved before: The House
For the classier among us, sometimes pubs and pints aren’t always what you’re looking...
When wine goes bad
I could pretend I thought this through, or at least googled in advance
Uncorny traditionalism at Il Corno
Il Corno stands out from the average sit-in Covered Market restaurant. Its crimson walls...
We hae meat and we can eat: Burns Night Banquet
Haggis is hardly something to get excited about - when you hear dinner’s going to be offal stuffed into a sheep’s stomach, your mouth doesn’t exactly start watering. But as soon as you dare take your first bite, the divisive delicacy wins you over.
Anyone Can Cook
If you walked into any Waterstones in the month of December you would have seen Yotam Ottelenghi’s most recent book, Flavour, piled high on...
Don’t knock Wagamama’s anglicised katsu curry
I am the human equivalent of a Greggs Katsu Curry bake
The Power of Food
Food is more than nourishment; it is a joy which can bring people together, and its connective power is needed now more than ever....
All I Want for Christmas is Food!
Dessert has the opportunity to hold such creativity and glee, and yet the dry, misshapen lumps turned out year after year hold nothing but an unbelievable amount of fruit. They also hold a considerable serving of history.
The perfect vegetarian Christmas
"The veggie haggis should indeed gain a position as a roasted staple around the British dinner table; cheap, healthy, easy to cook and universally delectable."
Vibrant Winter Veg
Potatoes are a-plenty, but keep an eye out post-halloween for sweet-fleshed pumpkin, all kinds of leafy green veg, beautiful purple beetroots and the unassuming fennel, cabbage and cauliflower.
Autumn Goodness: Chickpea Minestrone
It may be flavour-packed but it only requires one pan, and shockingly few fresh ingredients, making it the ultimate student kitchen fare: cheap, delicious, simple, and nutritious!
Society Eats: Hungary
Hungarian cuisine is a prime example of excessive gluttony - that is exactly why it is worth trying
Eating in Oxford : a freshers’ guide
Generally around £3.50, these wraps will put your soggy Tesco meal deal to shame.
Society Eats: German Society
“Food, glorious food” from Oliver Twist literally translates to “Bread, glorious bread” in the German version.
Blackstone’s investment in Oatly is a step forward, not back
Blackstone may engage in unethical behaviour, but the $200m they invested in Oatly is not of a different class to the $200m in revenue Oatly earned during 2019
A green sheen: how Tesco’s greenwashed budget brand is no more than a veneer
Although upon closer inspection the packaging gives no suggestion of organic or sustainable credentials, the ostensibly earthy branding might lead a consumer to think otherwise.
Opinion – veganism is not yet fully accessible
Creating an aura of exclusivity around a philosophy which can, realistically, only be elevated above the status of a social statement to become genuinely impactful with mass participation, is entirely counter intuitive.