BBC Radio 4: The Food Programme
In spring 2025, I was invited to contribute to an episode of BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme about the world’s oldest restaurants, and the secret to their longevity and success.
Recent articles for The Times / Sunday Times
As a regular contributor to The Times and Sunday Times, I have been proud to dig out some unusual stories and be the first to report on certain subjects in the UK media. These include: A family travel piece about the Atlantic Riviera, on the Pays de la Loire coast. It featured a visit to […]
Cheltenham Literature Festival
Since the publication of Amuse Bouche: How to Eat Your Way Around France, I have been really enjoying hosting events and talks about the books and French food. A recent highlight was hosting an event at the bookshop Hatchards for the Cheltenham Literature Festival 2025. We had a full house and my audience had the […]
Club Oenologique Magazine
I loved working with the team at Club Oenologique magazine on this feature about vegetable-forward chefs for their France special. They asked me for some ideas along some themes suggested by their guest editor Hélène Darroze, and we landed on this feature, which leaned heavily into my knowledge and expertise about French cuisine and 20 […]
‘Defend the product’: How the French keep their artisan food culture alive
For The Guardian’s EuroVisions series (in the features section), I was delighted to bring together much of the insight I gained in writing Amuse Bouche: How to Eat Your Way Around France and report on how the French protect their food heritage and culture, as well as its local artisans. The article was shortlisted in […]
Fields of flavour (award-winning article)
For National Geographic Traveller Food magazine, I was delighted to explore the Massif Central and show how its cheese-making traditions are so intrinsic to the region’s heritage, history and landscape. The article won the best European feature category in the Inspire Media Awards 2025 and remains one of my favourite-ever articles to research and write. […]
Corsica’s wine regions (Decanter Magazine)
I was delighted to contribute to Decanter Magazine again with this article on touring Corsica’s vineyards. Read the article here
Postcard from…Licques turkey festival
For the Financial Times, a ‘Postcard from the Licques turkey festival’. This pre-Christmas festival in the tiny town of Licques half an hour from Calais is a sight to behold. It starts in the main square where a giant cauldron of turkey broth was steaming over a blazing fire pit and was being ladled out to […]
New book… coming in 2024!
Lockdowns aren’t much fun, but they do concentrate your mind on what you want from your career and (to paraphrase The Spice Girls) what you really, really want. And I wanted to write about all the fascinating stories behind France’s regional foods, to tell readers where to find them, how eat them (or cook them) […]
The best baguette in Paris
One of my favourite food stories in France is Paris’ competition to find the city’s best baguette. I interviewed one of the winners for France: From the Source but it was great to speak to another winner a few years later for this article in National Geographic Traveller Food. Photo by Bas Peperzak on Unsplash