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TW: eating disorders Eating disorders are no joke. I mean, I like a funny quip as much as the next person, but when it comes to ED, I find that I still get an uneasy feeling whenever someone even mentions food or eating or body image, regardless of their intent. It took me a long time to get over the performative aspects of my ED — i.e. the unhealthy practices themselves — but the shift in mindset and the ability to actually enjoy food again have yet to fully emerge in me. Fo

Credits: MOB Kitchen In the last couple of years, the popularity of MOB Kitchen seems to have exploded. It holds a unique position within the online community and in the food world. I spoke with MOB Kitchen’s Head of Food, Sophie Wyburd, to discuss MOB’s insane success and the behind the scenes action at the MOB studio. How did MOB Kitchen start and what is its goal? Ben, our founder, was watching all his housemates unable to cook properly and a lot of the online food recipes

As the largest independent climate event in Europe, this year’s London Action Climate Week (LCAW) was held between 26th June and 4th...

This article is a guest feature and part of the series, #IndiaInRed, run in collaboration with Roar News and The Gryphon. Gryphon Writer...

This article is a guest feature and part of the series, #IndiaInRed, run in collaboration with Roar News and The Gryphon. While most...

Manasa Narayanan of The Gryphon discusses the current state of India as it grapples with an unprecedented wave of Covid-19 cases.

Photo by Dong Liu With a bit of shuffle, we halted on the muddy path trodden by a few other explorers. It seemed as if no one wanted to...

It’s fair to say that one of the nation’s favourite Lockdown activities was baking, judging from the scores of homemade banana loaves and sourdough posts flooding my Instagram feed. At one point, supermarkets were running so low on essential baking ingredients that flour felt like gold dust. And it wasn’t just my social media bombarding me with #bakinginspo- daytime television was awash with cooking and baking shows too, which I eagerly lapped up to fill my boredom. I watched

Credits: Bo Nguyen During the first lockdown, it seemed like everyone, young and old, was flocking to the kitchen. Even some of my friends who barely knew how to make sunny side up eggs were making all kinds of breads and other quarantine-friendly dishes. But for some reason I found myself cooking significantly less. I associated cooking with happy feelings and circumstances, so this surely was not the right time. Lacking energy and motivation, I was mainly trying to survive

“You won Jane. Enjoy the money, I hope it makes you very happy … Dear Lord, what a sad little life, Jane. You ruined my night completely so you could have the money but I hope now you spend it on getting some lessons in grace and decorum, cause you have all the grace of a reversing dump truck without any tyres on… So Jane, take your money and get off my property.” …were the infamous words uttered by Peter Marsh in that viral scene, racking up to 247k views on YouTube and