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Credits: @mctsingh Award-winning chef Tony Singh MBE shares his culinary insights from his lockdown kitchen in Edinburgh, Scotland. Tony makes regular appearances on our screens in The Great British Menu and Saturday Kitchen, as well as a myriad of guest appearances on shows including Celebrity Eggheads and Celebrity Mastermind. He also stars in the BBC 2 series ‘The Incredible Spice Men’ alongside Cyrus Todiwala. As a second-generation Scottish Sikh Tony’s food is a vibrant

Credit: Beigel Bake If you ask any Londoner where you could get the best bagels in town, I can guarantee that Beigel Bakes in Shoreditch will spring to mind. The iconic bagel shop has been a staple for visitors on Brick Lane since it first opened in 1974, serving up fresh bagels 24 hours a day. A family-run business, the shop has grown in popularity, and can even count the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge as some of their customers. They serve all the classic staples, from salt

In a changing global story that is perforated with major health calamities, human rights abuses, and important socio-political issues, it...

Popham's opened in 2017, at their first humble site on Prebend Street in Islington. With an array of unforgettable pastries, brilliant coffee, and a beautiful decor of gentle ceramics and dried flowers, Popham's has quickly become a staple of the London food scene. This fact only solidified itself further with the opening of their larger site in London Fields in the summer of 2019, which is a feat of interior design that accommodates both a welcoming atmosphere to walk in and

Graphic: Ella-Mae Earnshaw As restaurants open back up here’s a look back into the one activity the whole world took to in the confines of their own homes. Everyone probably has a moment when they realized that they would have to stay in their own home for a while. Many had a moment where they decided they would try to be productive and take up a new activity. As a collective, it seemed when everyone was isolating; we found one room in the house more appealing than most – th

Credits: Ella-Mae Earnshaw Strand Magazine's new column HomeCooked dives into lockdown stories from the kitchen. Natty Sae Jew writes about the nostalgia and comfort she found in cooking Salapao. “How was lockdown?” If you’d ask somebody this question a year ago, you’d probably get some very puzzled looks. Now, it’s practically a new way of saying “how are you?”. In the same vein, it’s a pretty loaded question: for some of us, it was a period of a much needed pause, but for

Quarantine is hard. Lockdown has taken away our normal like we never imagined. And you’re not alone, from the States to India or even Australia, everyone is in the same situation. All of us finding a way to cope, may it be compulsive knitting, MasterChef level cooking or taking a break from our fast-paced uni life to enjoy a book or two. Credits:Ella-Mae Earnshaw For me, the only thing

A few months of confinement have gone by in Paris and as I try to readjust my lifestyle around the restrictions that have been imposed, I feel very much trapped. I am not able to hang out with my friends, go beyond a one kilometre perimeter around my house, or even visit my father and my brother who live on the other side of town. Instead, I have found myself spending most of my time immersed in the online realm, in an attempt to seek out the face-to-face social interaction t

'Nighthawks', painting by Edward Hopper To go to London has always been a dream of mine. London: the self-advertised city of diversity,...

Transit: ‘The carrying of people or things from one place to another’. Living in England for almost three years has distorted my sense of...