In the previous part of this story, I talked about how culinary nostalgia provided me (and many others) some much-needed comfort during this period of uncertainty. But from the very start, I knew that I’d intended to write a much longer piece because several months of lockdown has clearly provided me with an ample amount of material. So today, I return with another instalment of lockdown cooking, venturing out to the situation beyond the walls of our own kitchen. Credits: Emma Benoit Simply...

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 many it was...

In the introduction to the play’s text, Alan Bennett claimed that the eighteenth-century ‘was not an inspiring period’. Funnily enough,...