Food

I don’t know why my mother balked against recipes. The fact that I managed to absorb the way she makes pakoras and samosas at all is a minor miracle.

Ixta Belfrage’s proves that the culinary world’s f-word—fusion— is not just possible but also an exciting way to cook.

Our favourite (mostly) plant-based and home-based cookbooks.

A succession of new-ish books are tackling what keeps us from cooking, what can make cooking suck—and why it’s worth it regardless. In the process, they’re questioning what a cookbook should even look like.

Food media is rife with fatphobia—and it hindered my love of cooking for years.