You Can’t Be a Racist and Love Wine
A reflection on wine, diversity, and the myth of cultural purity. True love for wine — or any passion — requires respect for difference. Racism has no place at the table.
Against Rating: How the Five-Star System Hijacked Our Lives
In a world obsessed with ratings, we are told that everything must be measured, reviewed, and ranked. WE NEED TO STOP
The Bottle as a Beacon
What if drinking wine—slowly, fully, with friends—was a quiet act of resistance?
Whose Nature? Whose Tradition?
“Natural” wine isn’t natural. It’s just the latest version of a long tradition: aestheticising power, erasing labour, and selling fantasy
A Bowl of Memory. Pasta, migration, and the architecture of belonging
The politics of pasta
Fine Dining, Finer Exclusion: A Critique of London's Edible Elitism
On food elitism in London