Watching the Pot
Features about great food, step-by-step cooking guides and musings about home cooked meals.
- An unexpected science lesson: making a ‘lasagna battery’
They say cooking is a science. As is often the case with scientific discoveries, not all of them are planned… - How to make pasta: tagliatelle
A step-by-step guide to making pasta at home, why it’s more than worth the effort and how to get perfect tagliatelle every time. - Why you should make your own soft drinks
If you’re already hoarding Kilner jars like a culinary Smaug, there’s no harm in adding a few glass bottles to your collection… - If the oyster is your world…
A brief history of the oyster, from the Romans to the Rockerfellers – along with a few recipes to try at home. - Culinary choreography: finding space in a restaurant kitchen
A look beyond the window into the cramped and machine-like world of a professional kitchen, and what it’s like to work in one. - Meal prep, or how I learned to stop worrying and love banchan
The case for variety over volume: how the Korean approach to meals can save you from the drudgery of batch cooking.
Features & Interviews
- An unexpected science lesson: making a ‘lasagna battery’
- Why you should make your own soft drinks
- Food, community and ceramics: an interview with Lei Yang
