Tales From Topographic Kitchens
A place to celebrate food writing and cookbooks. Winner of the Guild of Food Writers Award for best online food writing 2020. Written by Fortnum & Mason's Cookery Writer of the Year 2022.
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What cake would you like for your birthday? “What cake would you like for your birthday?” asks my daughter every year and, in response, I do two things: WhatsApp her a long list of links to Favourite Cakes and Cakes I Want To Try, and re-read this exposition on coconut cake in Vogue by Jeffrey Steingarten. I think an…
Some thoughts on oyster soup Tales From Topographic Kitchens is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. “There were always oysters…and those to praise them” How odd that my introduction to oyster soup should come via novels…
Book review: Notes From a Small Kitchen IslandSomeone is bound to tell me that it’s a psychological flaw on my part, but I need to believe that the author of a cookbook likes me by dint of the fact that they make it obvious that, in general, they possess good feelings about all their readers. Conveying this is harder than…
