Gareth May
Making Christmas Wontons and Talking British Chinese Identity
“I’m probably more English than Chinese in many respects but just because you’re born from Chinese parents, you still get stereotyped."
This Woman Names and Shames Restaurants with Bad Disabled Toilets
"Why should I have to use a grotty loo down the road when every other customer gets to use clean, lovely loos in an establishment?"
Meet the Electrician Who Sells the Best Olive Oil in England
Among the fuses and fluorescent lights, Embassy Electrical Supplies in London stocks the country's finest olive oil—according to New York magazine. Turkish Cypriot expat Mehmet Murat sources it from his family's farm in Cyprus.
Why We Should Eat Baked Beans If We Want a Sustainable Food Future
“By replacing some of the animal protein in our diets with vegetable protein from pulses, the world's growing food requirements could be met."
These Teenagers’ Discovery Could Revolutionize Global Crop Production
How two students figured out how natural bacteria aids crop growth, and why this is great news for our farming future.
This Wearable Tech Necklace Wants to Listen to You Chew
How one machine listens to the sound we make when we chew different foods to analyze data and make us healthier humans.
How This Community Vegetable Garden Reclaimed a London Construction Site
Skip Garden and Kitchen sits among the cranes and building debris of the King’s Cross redevelopment area. “It’s about bringing the community into a business premises,” events coordinator Gwen Mainwaring explains.
The Women Who Make Money Telling Men to Jerk Off
Inside the internet's thriving community of JOI ("jerk off instructions") fetishists, men get off on being told to go fuck themselves.
Spotting the Good Apples at Britain’s Largest Fruit and Veg Market
New Covent Garden Market supplies 40 percent of the fresh produce eaten outside of the home in London, from cafes to schools to Le Gavroche. I asked director of business Helen Evans to show me around.
The Last Bite: Lancashire’s Only Surviving Raw Milk Cheesemakers
Most of the cheese sold in the UK is single curd but Mrs Kirkham’s make double curd: a blend of young “alive” curds and two-day old richer, nuttier curds. Combining the two matures the cheese and deepens the flavour.
Yarrow Plant Could Make You a Less Awful Drunk
There’s no consensus on what yarrow—a plant known for its anesthetic qualities—does mentally. “But I’ve read reports of people using it with alcohol to take away the negative effects and stimulate conversation,” says British forager Richard Osmond.
We Spoke to the Guy Behind the Dalston Kebab Shop with 23,000 Twitter Followers
Mangal 2 in East London is as famous for its acerbic tweets as it is for its adana kofte. “No other restaurant was tweeting anything unrelated to the restaurant industry,” says Ferhat Dirik, who began manning the Twitter account in 2011.