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 […]
Column – Food Memories
Food Memories: Harneet Baweja on growing up in Calcutta (Evening Standard)
Victoria Stewart talks to Gunpowder London founder Harneet Baweja about his childhood food memories and how they influence the menu at his London restaurant. Harneet Baweja is the co-founder of the Shoreditch restaurant Gunpowder London, which he has owned with his wife, Devina, since 2014. […]
Food memories: Bao’s head chef Erchen Chang remembers eating poached goose in Taiwan (Evening Standard)
Victoria Stewart asks Erchen Chang about her food memories of Taiwan With her husband Shing Chung, and his sister Wai Ting, Erchen Chang runs the two Taiwanese restaurants, Bao and Bao Fitzrovia, as well as their original weekend street food stall in Netil Market. All […]
Food memories: Morito’s Marianna Leivaditaki on growing up in Crete (Evening Standard)
The head chef at Morito Hackney shares her happy childhood memories with Victoria Stewart (Image: Andreas Markakis) Marianna Leivaditaki is the head chef at Morito’s delicious new outpost on Hackney Road. The menu is mostly hooked around gorgeous, uplifting food from Spain and North Africa but […]
‘The taco was a way of life’: Edson Diaz-Fuentes on growing up in Mexico (Evening Standard)
Edson Diaz-Fuentes, co-owner of new Shoreditch restaurant Santo Remedio, remembers his childhood experience of the Mexican food markets, by Victoria Stewart For Edson Diaz-Fuentes, growing up in Mexico City was “a childhood surrounded by food” in which “one of the fundamental things was always going […]