Back in January I visited Malawi with Fairtrade to learn more about the people behind some of the food and drink we consume every day. Anyone who knows me really well knows that I’m not really worth knowing until I’ve had my morning cup of tea: I’m a tea addict, and I’m not alone: Britain […]

For this festive special episode we welcomed BBC Six music breakfast DJ Shaun Keaveny onto the channel for a historical Christmas experiment where we cook some unusual mince pies from 1604.

All over the summer I’d been collecting and preserving wild ingredients like plums, gooseberries, meadowsweet, elderflower and elderberries, collected by me or my forager friend John on the marshes. I knew I was stockpiling for something…

A few weeks ago I travelled down to East Sussex to pay a visit to Maynards fruit farm, where I met up with James Lowe, head chef at one of my favourite restaurants, the Michelin-starred Lyle’s in Shoreditch.

The other week I paid a visit to Silo in Brighton, the UK’s first and only 100% zero waste restaurant, run by pioneering chef and 2012 YBF winner Douglas McMaster.

We wanted something that reflected East London and its very particular, very unique food heritage. It had, we quickly realised, to reflect East End food both old and new, as this area has always had its own sense of culinary identity

BBC Good Food magazine has always been a magazine (and website) I’ve turned to for recipe inspiration. It’s always packed full of reliable, exciting and seasonal recipes and food content from some of the country’s best chefs and food writers, as well as some gorgeous food photography and styling. Which is why I’m so thrilled to be contributing recipes for it on a regular basis.

Last month I joined Michelle Roux Jr, Monica Galetti and some more of the UK’s best chefs on a culinary adventure to the northernmost reaches of Europe where I was covering a story about Skrei: a prized migratory cod that only makes an appearance from January to April. While I was there I recorded a […]