A chef manager’s life

Cover photo credit: The Urban Canteen, by Paul Coonan   The best thing about working in nutrition education is the people I encounter – their perspectives about food, nutrition and…

Teaching LLDD learners

Since teaching men over 55 years on the Man with a Pan programme with Age UK some of whom have dementia last year, I have a precious opportunity with the Richmond Adult…

Braised chicken wings and potatoes

薯仔炆雞翼。Who can resist this dish? Packed with sweet, savoury and umami flavours from caramelised onions and carrots, accompanied with a mixture of textures from the chicken meat and mushed up…

A grandmother’s wisdom

A few weeks ago, I wrote about how food scents shaped my memories of childhood, of which my grandmother had played an important part. She had since been taken ill…

Seaweed, beans and pork mince

“I smell rice!” was the first thing Audrey said as she stepped into our home after nursery today. Indeed, I had just put some fragrant jasmine rice into the microwave…

Building a culture around good food

For the past two days, I was engaged in many conversations at the First Steps Nutrition Trust’s Best Food Forward conference on nutrition in the first year of life and BNF’s 50th…