Food banks are on the rise. In the last five years the use of Trussell Trust food banks has risen by 74% and the number of adults who are food insecure in Briatin has quadrupeled since the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic. Malvern is a quaint and wealthy Victorian town that’s is well known for…
Author: chloemackean
Hi, I'm Chloe and I absolutely love food and cooking. Some of my closest friends have been made through cooking and eating together and very often I find myself breaking the ice with strangers by talking about the food they love. For some years now, whenever I’ve gone on holiday I’ve written down recipes from people I meet along the way. Food is both universal and personal, one of the reasons I love it so much.
I also love to travel and am very interested in different cultures and people. For me, talking to the tuk tuk driver on the way to a famous tourist site is more interesting than the site itself.
Since January 2018 my husband Cassian and I have been living our dream of exploring parts of the world. I quit my job in London where I was managing an environmental network and flew to Ethiopia. Cass and I are dividing our time up between travelling and volunteering on a range of sustainability projects. So far we've visited Ethiopia, Sudan and Kenya, and will spend the rest of 2018 exploring East Africa. In 2019, who know where our curiosity will take us?!
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Cathy’s Port Eliot parmesan biscuits
Like me, the majority of Cathy’s memories, sweet and sad, seem to be hung around food and relationships with people she loves. As I listen to her describe her life, the food memories she conjures through her storytelling take on a peachy pink glow. I can hear the crackle of the campfire on the Isle…
Lara’s Finnish Fish Soup
“I haven’t seen a single sheep since I’ve been here”. I’m talking to Lara Lindsay, my friend who up until last year, was running a restaurant in Bristol, but now lives on an island in Finland, just 15 minutes from the Russian border. We spend most of the time talking about growing vegetables, her love…
Smoky Jo’s easy peasy smoked salmon
I’ve wanted to meet Jo Hampson ever since I tasted a slice of her smoked chicken. It was so delicious that it has been logged as one of my ‘food memories’, vivid and clear enough so that I can still taste the smoky, unnervingly tender chicken in my mouth. Where did this chicken come from?…
The Pasta Queen’s Oxtail Ragu and Maloreddus
This recipe comes from my dear cousin-in-law, better known to the outside world as the charming, hard-working and endlessly talented ‘Rosie MacKean, Pasta Queen’. Rosie chose oxtail because its cheap, versatile and packed full of flavour. Ragu is the perfect meal to feed a crowd, and is a staple Christmas dish in the MacKean household.
The Broma Boys’ Butternut Squash Rogan Josh
Inspired by a version of a healthy hot chocolate, school friends Oli and Charlie launched ‘Broma’, a chocolate sauce that’s made of raw cacao, date syrup and not much else.
The recipe they’ve chosen to share here is not a chocolate one, but a delicious and healthy butternut squash curry that was synonymous with the early days of setting up their business.
People I Meet and Food They Eat 