Together with writer Anna Sulan Masing and chef Romy Gill, we launched AMP (A Meeting Place), a new digital zine designed to amplify women’s voices in food and sustainability. The launch of AMP Issue #1 was in physical form – 14 experts presenting for 5 […]
All posts by “Victoria Stewart”
The comic who cooks (Watts What Magazine)
Comedian Joe Lycett on his talent for cooking (definitely no capers involved) – and the secret of epic chicken soup (Words: Victoria Stewart. Image: Matt Crockett) If you’ve ever seen Joe Lycett perform stand-up, there’s a high chance you’ll have laughed until your sides hurt. […]
Sustainable Restaurants report (Stylus)
The restaurant and hospitality industry is beginning to think about sustainability in a wider context – from environmental impact to ethical employment practices. Staff wellbeing is having a positive impact on business growth, and consumers are demanding to know that the food they’re eating is […]
Flavours of Change: How Life Kitchen helped this couple rediscover the joy of food (Evening Standard)
Cookery classes set up for people living with cancer has helped the Masseys find happiness in the face of a devastating diagnosis. Victoria Stewart As soon as Karen Massey heard about Life Kitchen, a series of specialised cooking classes designed for people living with cancer […]
Morph: the best lifestyle concept you’ve never heard of (Off/Cuts)
On our virtual ‘back page,’ British writer Victoria Stewart imagines a meeting of some truly unlikable characters planning what will somehow probably be the hottest new restaurant in London. It is late morning in central London, and Nick Mooder is waiting in the Care’n’Share ideas […]
The Inbetweeners: breaking the work routine (Code Hospitality)
For whatever reason, breaking your work routine can make a huge difference to your life. Victoria Stewart talks to five women about what happened when they stepped away from the stove. Imagine you’ve left a highly demanding job in a kitchen, bar or restaurant with […]
Flavours of change: how a sip of coffee led to a new life for Aashifa Hussein
Coffee academy Well Grounded is helping to transform the lives of people with barriers to employment, by Victoria Stewart Aashifa Hussein was drinking hot chocolate in her favourite cafe – Store Street Espresso – when she noticed an advert pop up on her laptop screen that offered free training […]
A distillery that’s the Noma of booze (Wired Magazine)
Copenhagen-based Empirical Spirits, led by Lars Williams and Mark Emil Hermansen, wants to bring new flavour to alcoholic drinks. (Photo: Christoffer Rydqvist) Words: Victoria Stewart In a warehouse on Refshaleøen island, Copenhagen, a chorus of clattering is being produced by hacked-together machinery. Finishing some work on a […]
Digging for Victory: an interview with Tommy Banks (Oryx Magazine)
It’s all down to Yorkshire grit and home-grown inspiration for Tommy Banks’s family-run Black Swan in the middle of Britain – recently named the world’s best restaurant by TripAdvisor. Words Victoria Stewart Photography Kat Green When Tommy Banks was asked about the best dish he’d eaten in […]
Street food panel discussion (Chair, Kerb Talks)
Kerb, the London street food community, is hosting a series of panel discussions over the coming months, to explore the issues, opportunities and trends shaping London’s food industry today. The series as a whole aims to deliver predictions on future trends for London food and begins with […]
New British Foods (Food tour leader, Sidestory)
Sidestory is a new start-up travel company that runs what it calls ‘curated, immersive experiences’ led by different experts in a particular city. After contacting me, we worked hard on the tricky task of coming up with the idea for a food-related walking tour of one part […]
Riaz Phillips on documenting the Caribbean food scene in the UK (Evening Standard)
Riaz Phillips, author of a new book about Caribbean food in the UK, tells Victoria Stewart why he started his Belly Full project. If you’ve heard a story like this, where after being turned away by various agents a budding writer finally gets noticed and […]
Frankfurters with fried rice… Jeremy Pang on his memories of Cantonese cooking (Evening Standard)
The School of Wok founder tells Victoria Stewart why he loves frankfurters with fried rice, and why Cantonese cooking is so much more than comfort food. It was school lunch boxes that convinced Jeremy Pang that food could be fun. Aged 10, when the family […]
Mr Lyan on why sustainability doesn’t mean sacrifice (Foodism)
Cocktail alchemist Ryan Chetiyawardana, aka Mr Lyan, tells us how he’s planning on showing a new side to sustainability at his latest venture, Cub. by Victoria Stewart (Pic: Xavier D. Buendia / XDB Photography) LONDON, WE HAVE a problem. There’s stuff we need to sort out […]
Dodie Miller on how our love affair with Mexican food has developed in 20 years (Evening Standard)
Victoria Stewart talks to the founder of Cool Chile Co and Westbourne Grove’s Taqueria restaurant to find out more about London’s love affair with Mexican cuisine A fortnight ago BBC Good Food released the results of its fourth annual summer survey in which it revealed the relationship […]
Chasing the dram: Rachel McCormack on understanding the spirit of whisky, and how to cook with it (Evening Standard
Victoria Stewart talks to Rachel McCormack about her new book, a travelogue around Scotland looking at what whisky means to the people who drink it. Despite having spent a great deal of time in Scotland, I don’t think I’ve ever stopped to think about the […]