Our Stories

Find a selection of pieces we've published in our issues available for free below!

Sep 9, 20204 min read

The Simple Pleasure of Cooking Shows

By Beatrice Tridimas: Whether it had been binged, or was being carefully, momentously dragged out, the BBC adaption of Normal People saw...

Sep 4, 20201 min read

Issue 2: Call for Submissions is Open!

I'm very excited to let you know that our inbox is now ready and waiting to receive your wonderful entries to Issue 2 of Potluck. As the...

Sep 2, 20201 min read

Recipe: Issy's Asparagus Tart with Optional Smoked Salmon from A Homage to Home

By Issy Macdonald: This is a true lockdown recipe, grown from the need of finding another way to cook asparagus. We’ve had it with and...

Sep 2, 20201 min read

Recipe: Issy's Seasonal Crab Linguine from A Homage to Home

By Issy MacDonald: In our house, this is the only way to cook crab that does justice to the beauty of it. Fresh, dressed crabs are lovely...

Sep 2, 20203 min read

A Homage To Home

When lockdown was looking imminent, I moved out of my flat in Edinburgh, and back into my family home in Norwich. The move was undramatic...

Aug 28, 20203 min read

Things We Love: August 2020

By Rhia Cook: Judging by the weather this week, summer is most definitely almost over. I can't say this makes me particularly sad; I get...

Aug 19, 20204 min read

Dining Over Distance

It began, as all good ideas do – in the pub. Not the usual pub, with gleaming rows of beer pumps, shelves of different gins, and the ste...

Aug 19, 20203 min read

Most Important Meals of My Day

By Rachel Pyke: When I was a child, the diaries I kept were basically food logs.There is one particular account of a holiday my family...

Aug 19, 20201 min read

Staying Busy Baking: Tried and Tested Recipes for Lockdown Treats

By Laura Collins and Illustrations by Léonie Flower: When I think of baking, I think of making crispy cakes with my gran in her kitchen...