Maria Mellor

Wired UK

>> The studio of The One Show isn’t a big space – just two green sofas against a window in the BBC’s Broadcasting House. In front of a ring of cameras, wires and equipment, the presenters used to sit on one sofa and guests on the other, shoulder-to-shoulder for the duration of the evening magazine show. Then along came coronavirus…

Wired article

Wired UK

>> While you’re waiting for the turkey to finish its hours-long roast, the potatoes to get to that perfect combination of fluffy and crispy, and the brussels sprouts to be scraped into the bin, there is a Christmas food you could be eating. You buy it frozen and could be scoffing it for Christmas Day breakfast within 10 minutes of shoving it in the oven…

Evening Standard article

Evening Standard

>> Everyone on The Great British Bake Off gets a cute pastel machine for their work station, but if you’re just a home baker, is it worth getting one? Every stand mixer comes with the basics: a bowl and three attachments. There’s a beater that will make light work of most tasks, a balloon whisk for whipping cream and egg whites, and a dough hook that…

The Caterer

>> Whether you’re on the app or not, TikTok could be having an effect on your business. Here’s how to harness the platform to reach a huge audience. Scrolling through TikTok on a random Tuesday night you may see a video about a play that went hilariously wrong, a golden retriever puppy meeting its big brother, and a baby learning how to eat by herself…

The Caterer

>> The executive chef of Spitalfields Middle Eastern restaurant Bubala talks to Maria Mellor about the space and discovering new suppliers during the opening of the brand’s second restaurant in Soho. Tell me what Bubala is all about. Bubala is a Middle Eastern restaurant first and foremost, and it’s vegetarian almost incidentally. We are about whole vegetables…

The Caterer

>> Chef Ferdinand ‘Budgie’ Montoya is on a mission to introduce London’s diners to flavours of the Philippines using European techniques. Trying to pin down Filipino cuisine is no easy feat. Spanish colonisers have spattered their influence alongside the imported flavours of Mexico and the Americas. The Chinese and Japanese shared hits of umami across the…