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This heritage crop is making a comeback, and it has more than just good taste in its favour.
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Susan Low
- Jun 30
- 3 min
What’s cooking: RHS Wisley Supper Clubs
This summer, RHS Wisley in Surrey is running a series of botanically themed after-hours supper clubs.
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Susan Low
- May 31
- 6 min
My top cookbook picks
Part 1 of my pick of new cookbooks and food books from spring and summer 2024.
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Susan Low
- Apr 26
- 5 min
Postcard from Chinatown, Sydney
A handful of carefully chosen dishes tell the story of the disapora communities, past and present, of Sydney’s Chinatown.
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Susan Low
- Feb 26
- 4 min
Postcard from Bali
Memory has a way of airbrushing the past, casting everything in a soft-focus glow and drawing a veil across the negative bits. Knowing...
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Susan Low
- Dec 9, 2023
- 3 min
2023’s best food books
Every year I think, Surely there can't be as many brilliant books published as there was last year – but every year I'm impressed by the...
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Susan Low
- Jun 4, 2023
- 3 min
Allotment tales: learning to dig ‘no-dig’ gardening
It’s June, and the flowers are running riot in London’s front gardens. Roses are shyly opening their velvety petals, brazenly scented...
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Susan Low
- Apr 16, 2023
- 4 min
Diaspora dishes: immigration, emigration – and three great new cookbooks
A California-based journalist contacted me recently for quotes for a piece he was researching on the British food scene. “How much has...
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Susan Low
- Feb 12, 2023
- 2 min
On becoming a mentor...
On the personal news front, I'm pleased and proud to be a mentor for the University of the Arts London/London College of Communication's...
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Susan Low
- Jan 2, 2023
- 2 min
The year that was, in cookbooks
2022 was a brilliant year for cookbooks. In terms of quality, range, depth and sheer ‘interestingness’, there was so much talent out...
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Susan Low
- Nov 20, 2022
- 1 min
A bit of news...
An update from me... I've recently joined the editorial team at Waitrose Food magazine. I'm incredibly excited to be part of a mag that...
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Susan Low
- Oct 21, 2022
- 1 min
Say hello to the kurnik (a mighty fine pie)
This fine pie, ladies and gents, is called a kurnik. It’s a celebratory pie with roots in Russia and Ukraine, often served at weddings...
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Susan Low
- Sep 21, 2022
- 2 min
Just published: The British Cook Book
The best cookbooks are the ones that make you think. The good ones might introduce you to a new cuisine, take you away to a different...
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Susan Low
- Aug 7, 2022
- 1 min
About so much more than 'just dumplings'...
The postman brought me this beautiful new book by @zuzazakcooks the other morning. I couldn't resist stealing a few moments and poring...
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Susan Low
- Jun 10, 2022
- 2 min
“Tillingham is more than a wine farm”
I’d been hankering to visit Tillingham vineyard in East Sussex for ages. I’d heard many a good thing about their wines, which sounded...
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Susan Low
- Mar 2, 2022
- 2 min
#CookForUkraine
I suspect I'm not the only person who has been finding it difficult to concentrate on the mundane matters at hand over the last week....
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Susan Low
- Feb 13, 2022
- 2 min
Nistisima – hitting bookshelves soon...
Once in a while, a book comes across your desk that makes you think: Genius! This handsome cookbook from Georgina Hayden is one of those....
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Susan Low
- Feb 3, 2022
- 3 min
Annabel Abbs: the writer who's bringing Eliza Acton into the 21st century
"I want to put Eliza back on the stage where I think she belongs," says Annabel Abbs, author of the just-published (February 3)...
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Susan Low
- Nov 4, 2021
- 2 min
Singaporean food has been newsworthy...
...if for the wrong reasons. The news story that London chef Elizabeth Haigh's book Makan was withdrawn from sale by its publisher amid...
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Susan Low
- Oct 24, 2021
- 2 min
A kitchen with a mission
Mission Kitchen is a new food business incubator in Vauxhall that’s out to change the image of the food industry and to give a leg up to...
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