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Why does everywhere smell like green tea?

If the look of the non-place is the generic hipster coffee shop, then its smell is undoubtedly green tea.

Oct 20 • 

Elly McCausland

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May 2023

On taking the pulse of a food culture

The way in which food irrigates a nation, seeps into its very fabric and floods the veins of its people is subtle.

May 16, 2023 • 

Elly McCausland

February 2023

On the meals that never were

I like to imagine an ephemeral archive of food stories that should have been, could have been, but never were

Feb 3, 2023 • 

Elly McCausland

October 2022

On feminism and fermentation

There are infinite ways to mother, though most of them go unrecognised.

Oct 6, 2022 • 

Elly McCausland

August 2022

On happiness being, in fact, a potato

It bides its time, awaiting the moment it can start to send tentative tendrils up into the sunshine.

Aug 17, 2022 • 

Elly McCausland

November 2021

On wasting food, and why banana bread is (probably) not the answer

We are still wasting food, by the truckload. Might it not be time to start looking more closely at why?

Nov 9, 2021 • 

Elly McCausland

September 2021

Redcurrant, pecan and cinnamon scones

A few weeks ago, my neighbourhood exploded in crimson.

Sep 5, 2021 • 

Elly McCausland

July 2021

Norwegian(ish) blackcurrant custard buns

It is a myth universally peddled that Scandinavia has excellent baked goods.

Jul 14, 2021 • 

Elly McCausland

May 2021

On a friendship without food

When your adult life has been defined by a passionate relationship with food in all its guises, a real sense of impotence strikes when your close friend…

May 25, 2021 • 

Elly McCausland

March 2021

On missing breakfast in a pandemic

Morning hunger will take you on journeys – both literal and metaphorical – of unimaginable delight.

Mar 11, 2021 • 

Elly McCausland

January 2021

On seasonality, stockpiling, and Seville oranges

Feast with heady abandon on that rare thing, a truly seasonal ingredient.

Jan 19, 2021 • 

Elly McCausland

When food stops being fun

I am a slave to Larder Zero, to the Norwegian supermarket monopolies.

Jan 5, 2021 • 

Elly McCausland