Eating with your hands is one of the most intimate relationships you will have with your food. It is sensual, environmentally friendly, clean and your food even tastes better.
As a flag is synonymous with a country’s boundaries, so too is a dish intrinsically associated with a country’s people. What Jerk is to Jamaicans, Pie is to Aussies, Doner Kebab to the Turkish or Bunny Chow to South Africans; Kothu is to us. Such dishes often have a common theme of having origins deeply […]
Johnne Phinehas and his wife own and operate Saffron Spice Kitchen, a Sri Lankan takeout shop on Queen West. “I use my mother’s recipes to make the curries on my menu, but the kothu roti is what I’m most passionate about,” says Phinehas. “People line up for it every day.” Phinehas was born in 1980 […]
It is berry season now and everywhere you go, there are red red strawberries! If you’ve got a lot, you probably want to make jam, milkshakes, pies and tarts out of them, which are great but if you can spare a few strawberries, you can get to make these really interesting, tasty, fun idlis, which […]
HANDMADE is a cookbook which tells the incredible stories of 34 widows of the war in Sri Lanka. The women featured are from the North East of the island nation and throughout the book their relationship with food and recipes during the war, in the refugee camps and whilst rebuilding their lives, is shared. With beautifully […]
