Mateo Austin Mateo Austin

Chef’s Diaries 4: Don’t Ask Me if I Like My Job

Performatively moral groups of foodies dish out recommendations for restaurants they love, and in the same breath chunter about how it must be so hard to work under such tough conditions. What I find shocking is that I have never had a single person make the leap that those same conditions are likely behind the meal they so enjoyed, literally not one, ever.

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Sara Scheeres Sara Scheeres

In The Dwindling Light

Sara Scheeres is a writer and photographer living in London. In this project, Sara reflects on the life of her Nonna, and the lessons passed down to her via the rhythms of daily life. In the Dwindling Light the kitchen is a place to weather life’s surrounding chaos and calmly pass from one day to the next.

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Mateo Austin Mateo Austin

Chef’s Diaries 3: Feelings

Mateo Austin is a new chef living in London. Chef’s Diaries shares extracts from his journals, documenting the beginning of his exciting career in professional kitchens.

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Ella Radley Ella Radley

Olhão

A rough diamond, Olhão is the authentic food haven you might not have heard of.

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Ella Radley Ella Radley

I’ve Been Thinking About Cake (and Politics or Whatever?)

For Hannah Radley, people’s personal lives have always been more interesting than policy making. For both Hannah and her hero, Nora Ephron, one of the best ways to understand the intersection between the private and the political is through food.

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Ella Radley Ella Radley

Chef’s Diaries 1: Why am I Here?

Mateo Austin is a new chef living in London. Chef’s Diaries shares extracts from Mateo’s journals as he discovers his place in the professional kitchen.

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