Kitchen encounters
Cook reveals the kit, ingredients and shopping habits of our favourite food lovers
‘I’ve become a rummager, a magpie of sorts’: Samin Nosrat
A Cook’s Kitchen: Treasured gifts, fresh herbs and ‘obnoxiously large utensils’ surround the cooking of the Chez Panisse chef and food writer
Stéphane Reynaud: ‘My friend makes goat’s cheese and I buy 40 at a time’
Kitchen encounters: The French chef and cookery writer just wants to have a blast with his friends
‘A real cook can make something with any ingredient’
Kitchen encounters: No measurements, no recipes – just sheer practice (and a huge tub of garam masala) – that’s chef and writer Vicky Bhogal’s MO
Mark Diacono’s kitchen: ‘Improvising is what leads to discovery’
Kitchen encounters: The owner of Otter Farm, Mark Diacono, says we need to make mistakes when cooking
Flora Shedden: Bake-offs, books and bacon sandwiches
Kitchen encounters: Bake-off runner-up, blogger, writer and cook Flora Shedden on her cravings and cookbook inspirations
Why I always bring meat to a dinner party
Kitchen encounters: Charcutier Sean Cannon on growing up off-grid, knowing how to handle gluts and shortages and why sausages are better to bring to parties than wine
Jessica Murnane’s kitchen: ‘I'm inspired by foods from my past’
Kitchen encounters: The blogger and author Jessica Murnane eats almond butter straight from the fridge
Ollie Templeton’s kitchen: ‘I managed to set the kitchen alight’
Kitchen encounters: Carousel’s chef and co-owner gets inspired by music and Spanish vibes
Reiko Hashimoto: ‘I never buy anything ready-made – not even sandwiches’
Kitchen encounters: Japanese cookery teacher Reiko Hashimoto would rather go hungry than eat dull food
Roy Brett: ‘Flowers don’t taste so good - not even nasturtiums’
Kitchen encounters: The chef patron of Ondine restaurant loves his oyster knife and saying it with salmon
Natalia and Jonathan Conroy: ‘A clean chopping board is a clean mind’
Kitchen encounters: The founders of the Kitchen Orchard food range on loving orderliness, the cold – and each other
John Quilter: ‘I detest dinner parties’
Kitchen encounters: The Food Busker blogger and chef on cooking with coffee and his love of all things chilli
Toshio Tanahashi: ‘Everything tastes better with ponzu’
Kitchen encounters: Japanese shojin-ryori master chef Toshio Tanahashi needs little to cook – except lots of sieves
Yasmin Khan: ‘My friends are my guinea pigs’
Kitchen encounters: Anglo-Iranian food blogger and cookbook writer Yasmin Khan is nuts about peanut butter and a geek for exotic fruit
Jessica Koslow: how to 'bake-fry' an egg
Kitchen encounters: Chef, restaurateur and preserves specialist Jessica Koslow reveals her kitchen secrets and a love of popcorn – for dinner
Niklas Ekstedt’s kitchen: ‘Traditional cooking is important, and it’s disappearing’
Kitchen encounters: Swedish star chef Niklas Ekstedt craves potatoes with burnt hay seasoning
Issy Croker’s kitchen: ‘We really don’t like seeing anything thrown away’
Kitchen encounters: Food and lifestyle photographer Issy Croker’s one-pot wonders, cookbooks and eggy toast
Signe Johansen’s hygge kitchen: ‘Everything tastes better with butter’
Kitchen encounters: Norwegian-American writer Signe Johansen on cooking batch meals and making butter
Merlin Labron-Johnson’s kitchen: ‘Trying to cook with a dull knife is practically impossible’
Kitchen encounters: Cooking at home is a rare treat for Merlin Labron-Johnson, executive chef of Portland and Clipstone restaurants
Sarah Wilson’s kitchen: ‘I’ve been known to sit on the floor to cook’
Kitchen encounters: Blogger and food waste campaigner Sarah Wilson on her lo-fi kitchen and obsession with freezing
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