This month, we’re getting our hands dirty with the topic of food. We’re sowing, growing, harvesting and feasting with a fascinating array of people and dishes.   

On the land, we’re looking at where our food comes from, the processes involved and finding out why, as consumers, we should be paying more attention to where our food comes from. We meet the shepherdess who swapped hairdressing in Soho for sheep shearing in Kent and SSAW Collective–a trio of florists, chefs and growers exploring the nature of seasonality through events and collaborations.

We’ll be speaking to Erchen Chang, creative director and co-founder of the endlessly fun group of restaurants BAO. We revisit our meeting with culinary icon Diana Kennedy when we travelled to her sustainable homestead in Mexico and our conversation with everyone’s food inspiration, Laila Gohar in New York. 

There are recipes based around kitchen utensils, an ode to a time when food was fun and a personal look at how grief and comfort food are perfect bedfellows. 

Coming up later in the month, we meet the woman feeding her local community through the food bank charity she set up in Walthamstow and sit down for a slice of hearty pie with Nokx Majozi, sous chef at the Rosewood London and Head Pie Maker at the Holborn Dining Room. We’ll also be posing the ice-breaker question “What would your last meal be?” to a bunch of different folks.

As with all of our themes, it’s a rich and varied look at something that means many things to many people - we hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed putting it together. 

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