You tell us where to eat, what you like, which dish was best, based on what? Nothing, is what. Your main qualification is “ I like food” . So does everyone else!   I counted how many food ‘influencers’ I follow on Instagram: less than 20. Fewer than 10 of them post their own cooking, and regretfully, fewer than 5 do it well. The rest of them eat at various restaurants in their cities, tell us which were good (suspiciously, never which ones were bad), and we all follow along.

Hi. My name is Noor, and I have a problem. Although, I hadn’t thought of it as a problem until very recently. If you take a look at my kitchen cupboards, you may notice they are full of stuff. And when I use the word ‘stuff’ I mean it exactly like that. Yes, there are the regular items like salt, oil, eggs, pasta, flour, etcetera. But there are also random packets of chilli oil, about 15 different spices I am yet to open, unidentifiable meat snacks, various things that have c

I justify every new crockery purchase with, ‘it’ll be good when I have a dinner party’. Still riding the high from one I hosted 3 years ago, I thought it probably about time I do it again. As a lover of schedules and planning, I began cooking up ideas in autumn of last year and decided the big night would be on the 5th of February 2025. So about 4 months for me to feel excited, stressed, and overwhelmed. Perfect.   I started of course with the menu, which probably saw at leas

Something we should all know how to do.