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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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Susan Low
- Aug 25, 2021
- 1 min
The cookbook I wouldn't part with...
If you're a cookbook lover like me, chances are that you have certain books that you just wouldn't part with. You might not cook from...
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Susan Low
- Jul 25, 2021
- 2 min
Now, THIS is what you call a lobster roll...
If you travel to New England, you’ll find there is a lot of inter-state disagreement and rivalry about the ‘proper’ way to cook...
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Susan Low
- Jun 10, 2021
- 2 min
What are cookbooks for?
Review: The Gaza Kitchen What are cookbooks for? There’s the obvious: they show you how to cook recipes. The more interesting ones give...
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Susan Low
- Jun 4, 2021
- 2 min
Holy Vale: birds, bunnies, botrytis – and great wine
There is no one on the planet who’s happier to see the end of lockdown than I am, and I recently dusted off my suitcase to head to the...
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Susan Low
- Apr 13, 2021
- 2 min
"A memoir of love, migration and food"
When you're a food writer, people are always wanting to know which food books you'd recommend. The Settler's Cookbook by Yasmin...
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