A little judicious pruning and deadleafing goes a long way towards treating weather-battered plants Rain, wind, sun, rain, wind, sun: this summer’s varied weather has led to a lot of lank growth, which means things are flopping all over the place, or r…
Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for sweetcorn, chipotle and avocado rice salad | The new vegan
A Mexican wave of flavours join together in this rousing medley of nutty black rice, caramelised corn, creamy avocado and smoky chilliesIf there were awards given to countries for cultivating ingredients, Mexico would be gleaming with trophies. Corn, c…
Mackerel, hake and coley: Adam Byatt’s recipes for British summer fish
No batter in sight: grilled mackerel fillets with a salad of rhubarb and bitter leaves, coley with curried cauliflower, and hake with cockles and ciderMackerel is a British staple, and here, simply cooked with a crunchy bitter salad, sweet-sour rhubarb…
Avni Doshi on summer in Mumbai
The Burnt Sugar author remembers summer 2007, when her grandmother arrived to help her set up home – and teach her some life lessons• Read other authors on their memorable urban summersShe arrives with a small suitcase and several jute bags filled with…
How to eat the whole courgette – recipe | Waste not
Courgette flowers are an overlooked delicacy that are never better than when turned into fritters – ideal summer food with a cold glass of wineCourgettes are an abundant summer vegetable that are very easy to grow (if you’re short on space, you can eve…
Early risers: from flatbread to grissini, instant yeast is easy and dependable
Lockdown baking might have launched thousands of natural ferments but for top cooks dried yeast is a quick win, not a cheatSourdough starter show and tell was a thing well before collective lockdowns. There’s a modern impulse to Instagram bubbling or o…
A Specialist Occupation?
Hotpoint All Pink Kitchen, 1961 by JoeInSouthernCA (cc by-nd)I’ll put it bluntly: modern cooking is a social dick-measuring contest: Kadin2048 has an intriguing comment about the “fixation on cooking at home as a moral good” in theora55’s post on Ultr…
Why are restaurants’ cheapest bottles of wine becoming so expensive?
Wine lists shouldn’t be terrifying but too often they make me feel like a second-class citizenIn matters of wine, I am not Withnail. I do not crave “the finest wines available to humanity”. I merely want something drinkable from the cheap end of the li…
How Adia Sowho helped steer Thrive Agric through the pandemic crisis
Nigeria’s less than two-decade-old ecosystem is evolving fast. But behind the funding and legitimate hype, there’s without a doubt plenty of learning that needs to be done in running a startup. In retrospect, founders in Nigeria do tremendous work when you consider the kind of harsh market they operate in. They are deserving of all […]
Cairngorms crofters: ‘We don’t follow a capitalist grow-grow-grow model’
Lynn Cassells and Sandra Baer say buying croft allowed them to farm based on regenerative principlesRewilding 5% of England could create 20,000 rural jobs“Farming with nature is really not idealism,” says Lynn Cassells. “It’s not a nice thing to do on …