Essays & field notes
A growing library of cooking essays — five-ingredient dinners, three-ingredient breakfasts, the joy of missing out and other slow-cooking thoughts. Read slowly.
All essays
Five Ingredients, Five Continents
A handful of pantry staples, six cross-cultural desserts that taste like they took all afternoon.
Ten Minutes, Three Ingredients
Sweet starts to the morning that don't ask much of you, your fridge, or your patience.
Fifteen Five-Ingredient Dinners
Fifteen dishes that need a short list of things and a short period of time.
Fewer Than Five, Always Recognisable
Fifteen meals that read like a grocery list a child could write — and a grandmother would approve of.
Five No-Knead Loaves
Bread that does most of its own work, with very little for the cook to do.
Fifteen Clean-Label Recipes
Fifteen recipes that hold to a five-ingredient ceiling and a single, simple rule about what counts.
Ten Recipes for the Air Fryer
What that machine on your counter can really do, in ten short recipes.
Feed Four for Ten
Ten dinners for a family of four, each at or below a tenner — and none of them apologetic about it.
The Long Look-See, In Five Things
Desserts engineered to seem laborious — when in fact, they are anything but.
Fifteen Meals From What You Already Have
Fifteen recipes that begin with the question every cook eventually asks the shelf.
Twenty Recipes With Two Things
What you can cook when the ingredient list is shorter than the title of the dish.
A Week of Lunches, In an Hour
Sunday afternoon, an hour, five things, five lunches.
Twelve Things to Do With a Sourdough Starter
Pancakes, crackers, brownies, pizza, and other places your starter quietly wants to go.
Twelve One-Sheet Dinners
Twelve sheet-pan dinners that fit on one tray and require the dishwasher to learn very little.
JOMO Cooking
The joy of staying in — with food good enough that you didn't miss the booking you didn't make.