Papas antiguas | El País
May 2024
New feature for Spanish newspaper El País. A deep exploration of one of Canary Islands’ gastronomic treasures, papas antiguas. Read story here.
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Food Writing
May 2024
New feature for Spanish newspaper El País. A deep exploration of one of Canary Islands’ gastronomic treasures, papas antiguas. Read story here.
April 2024
Three new articles for Traveler.es, the digital edition of Condé Nast Traveler. Published in the last couple of months.
January 2024
Three new articles for Traveler.es, the digital edition of Condé Nast Traveler.
A restaurant review, A Maceta, a wonderful restaurant in Santiago de Compostela
Eight food treats to bring back from Galicia
October 2023
Two new articles for Traveler.es, the digital edition of Condé Nast Traveler, one features the exhibitions to visit in London this autumn, and another one about an amazing new restaurant, Mountain.
June 2023
New work about one Spain’s best bakeries: Brulée. For Condé Nast Traveler Spain, read here.
October 2022
A little piece on cider and an essential side of Asturian food culture, escanciar. Published in the first issue of Linseed Journal, a new publication from the UK. Each print Volume of the journal is themed around a single organic material, the first theme is the apple.
November 2021
New writing and photo work for the latest issue of Good Cheese, featuring the cheeses of Asturias and some classic recipes from Bar Camacho and Aitor Vega fromagerie.
November 2021
New work (text + images) for this month’s issue of Gourmets, featuring farmer Calixta Killander and her regenerative agriculture project in Cambridgeshire (UK), Flourish Produce.
October 2021
New writing work (in Spanish) for Gourmets, featuring a wine project that was born out of necessity: what to do with the 2020 grape harvest, when wineries weren’t buying small producers’ fruit because of the pandemic? Small grape growers joined forces and the outcome couldn’t be better. The story is included in the October issue, out now.
September 2021
New work for Whetstone magazine, a long form feature on roxóns, a pork meat dish from northern Spain that is very attached to peasant culture and rural seasonal celebrations.
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June 2021
It’s been a treat to work on this story (writing & photography) featuring some of Asturias’s most brilliant young cheesemakers. I was lucky to get that sunshine in winter, when I photographed the story. The work appears in the Travel Issue (summer 2021) of US magazine Culture Cheese.
June 2021
New writing work (in Spanish) for Gourmets, featuring brilliant London chefs, veterans and newcomers. The story is included in the June issue, out now.
September 2020
New work for Saveur magazine, featuring my grandmother’s mojo picón recipe, which appears in The Saveur 100 list. This was shot at my grandma’s on Tenerife, during lockdown. It’s very moving for me to see her recipe on the list.
The work appears in the Saveur Fall 2020 issue, out now.
February 2019
Beyond delighted for having had a chance to write about the food of Asturias. The piece includes some of my photographs too. Read the full story here.
February 2019
Very happy to share a story about Michelin starred chef Nacho Manzano’s pop up in London. For a week only, he’ll bring the flavours and dishes of his two Michelin star restaurant, Casa Marcial, to Ibérica London. Read the full story here.
September 2018
This year Casa Marcial, the restaurant of the legendary Manzano family in Asturias, turns 25. You can read my story in Condé Nast Traveler Spain here.
April 2018
Really excited to share some new work on the food of Tenerife, an island I am lucky enough to know like the back of my hand. Read the full story here.
March 2018
See the full story about this great restaurant in north London here.
February 2018
See the full story about this fantastic cafe in Rome here.
February 2018
See the full story about this fantastic pizzeria in Rome here.