The importance of rührei
Miriam Toews remembers her Mennonite childhood and the dish that held her family together
Miriam Toews remembers her Mennonite childhood and the dish that held her family together
A plate of lentils may be good for your health – but what can it do for your soul?
In Chairman Mao’s China, it wasn’t just supplies that were rationed
When you’re 14, wet, cold and in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness, only one thing can help. Anthony Doerr recalls a transporting moment
Petina Gappah finds that food, like history, never stands still
The novelist Tom Winter remembers Hong Kong in the 1990s, when the taste of independence came in a Styrofoam box
Asked to name a dish that brings back memories, Sadie Jones picks three, from disparate places, with one common thread
The novelist Tash Aw shows how kari ayam and rice came to his rescue in rural Malaysia
In the first of a new series, the novelist Kapka Kassabova eats her way into her past
