Victoria Stewart attends a public iftar during the Muslim festival of Ramadan Sitting cross-legged on the floor of a huge marquee, it is only when my neighbour offers me a bowl of dates to share, before quickly swigging from a bottle of water, that I realise […]
Food
Here you’ll find a wide selection of food stories featured in newspapers, magazines and blogs including The Evening Standard, Foodism, The Times, ES Magazine, The Daily Telegraph, Square Meal, Berry Brothers & Rudd, The Guardian, Restaurant Magazine, and Radio Times. There are interviews and Q&As with chefs and producers (primarily in London as well as around the UK), commentary on women working in food and hospitality, profiles on food businesses and food-related social enterprises and community projects, ‘cookbook challenges’, food trends, street food traders and restaurant profiles, and eating out guides.
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Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen: the West African food we should all be eating (Evening Standard)
Victoria Stewart interviews Zoe Adjonyoh, owner of Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen about delicious West African dishes we should all be cooking at home. (Photo: Nassim Rothacker) If you’re a hesitant cook, there’s nothing worse than a cookbook that insists you must follow it to the word, or […]
Stir it up: London’s cocktail craze (Foodism)
From cocktail bars to mixing masterclasses and the number of drinks being served, Victoria Stewart charts the facts and figures of stratospheric rise of London’s cocktail scene WE ALL KNOW Londoners love cocktails. The availability, quality and interest in them has been growing steadily since about […]
Local sustenance: meet the Brixton restaurants feeding Open Project Night
By our resident story teller, Victoria Stewart Imagine an evening where anyone – literally anyone, regardless of their background, race, gender or beliefs – was welcome to come and meet in one place to share ideas about how they wanted to change their local community. […]
Mazi Mas: why you should follow this London catering business (Evening Standard)
This London catering business employs migrant and refugee women to bring dishes from their home countries to London, Victoria Stewart Mazi Mas is a London catering business founded in 2012 by Nikandre – Niki – Kopcke, employing migrant and refugee women who cook dishes from […]
Happy Nowruz: 3 British-Iranian cooks share their favourite New Year dishes (Evening Standard)
Today is the start of Nowruz, Iranian New Year. Victoria Stewart talks to three London-based cooks about what they cook to celebrate Today is significant for Iranians around the world, most of whom will be celebrating New Year, the start of a 13-day festival of […]
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. […]
Finding the balance (Berry Bros. & Rudd blog)
(Article originally published on BBR.com, November 2016) Inspired by a trip to Kiln Soho, food writer Victoria Stewart writes about finding the perfect sense of poise, the balance not just within a dish or a wine, but between the two. (Pic: Kiln Soho) A good wine and food pairing […]
The kitchen cupboard essentials you need for Syrian-inspired cooking (Evening Standard)
Victoria Stewart gives you the lowdown on Syrian cuisine (Pic: Syrian Supper Club) Food adventurers, I’ve got an idea. When did you last eat Syrian food? In fact have you ever tried Syrian food? If not, maybe this is the month you give it a […]
Animal instinct: under the skin of Soho restaurant Smoking Goat (Foodism)
Smoking Goat and Kiln restaurateur Ben Chapman’s dedication to careful sourcing means success not only for him, but his suppliers too, by Victoria Stewart BEN CHAPMAN IS a special kind of restaurant owner. If his name isn’t familiar to you, then Smoking Goat, the Thai […]
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 […]
10 of the best late-night bars in London – chosen by the experts (The Guardian)
If you’re after a well-crafted cocktail or beer, these late-drink hangouts keep the party going across the capital. They’re what the Night Tube was made for. I was asked to contribute one of my favourite bars in London for a guide in Guardian Travel. You […]
The high-flyer whose life changed when she cooked for Bill Gates (The Times)
Two of the richest men in the world persuaded her to switch careers. Now Saima Khan feeds film stars and dotcom billionaires. By Victoria Stewart (Image: Katie Wilson) Article appeared in The Times, September 2016
London’s sustainable street-food traders (Foodism)
Choose wisely and it’s possible to eat well while doing good. We meet five street food vendors who are dedicated to the sustainability cause. By Victoria Stewart SCAN. QUEUE. ORDER. Eat. This is the order of behaviour in which most people arriving at a street […]
Oliver Peyton on Ireland’s food revival: “A lot of the cool kids are farming now” (Radio Times)
The Emerald Isle is now a gourmet paradise, says the Great British Menu judge to Victoria Stewart (image from Ireland.com) Oliver Peyton would be the first to agree that a lot has changed since he was a boy in County Mayo in the west of […]
Meet cronut creator Dominique Ansel, the man whose pastries sold for $2,000 (Evening Standard)
Get ready, London — the man behind the cronut is coming to town. Victoria Stewart talks banoffee in Belgravia with Dominique Ansel (Image: Vicki Couchman) What links a frozen s’more, a chocolate-chip cookie shot and a DKA? They are all inventions of New York pastry chef Dominique Ansel, […]