A carnivore’s crisis is about food and climate change, but it also asks how the problem to fix climate change ended up in the kitchen of time-poor, cash strapped families. How can one person’s food choices save the planet?

Lots of whoops of joy in this weeks episode with the lovely Benjamina Ebuehi, a super talented food stylist and recipe writer. She’s also an ambassador for the Luminary bakery in London, a social enterprise that looks to empower women through baking.

This week I’m joined by acclaimed chef and food writer, Olia Hercules. We chat amongst other things about the simple pleasure of eating a chunk of cheese and a piece of bread, why loving to eat is essential to friendship and the lost art of pickling and fermenting.

I first discovered meadowsweet when I did a couple of weeks work experience at Fäviken back in the Summer of 2012. The frothy little white flowers pop up like clouds in the damp parts of meadows. They are quite unassuming but go a bit closer you are hit with a heady [...]

Being patient certainly isn’t a virtue I have but it’s something I am learning to be more of, certainly since living in Sweden requires more of it with Spring and the Summer seasons taking their time.

When I first got approached to do the show I couldn’t believe my luck. I had a few favourite European cities but Vienna was in the top three and not an obvious choice for a lot of people.

Hurrah! I can finally announce I have a new TV Show Rachel Khoo’s Simple Pleasure. I’ll be cooking up a range of mouth-watering dishes using ordinary, easy-to-find ingredients and transforming them into extraordinary meals. Sharing the the joy that can be found in simple, tasty home cooking.

Transform that tired packet of biscuits at the back of your cupboard into a delicious rhubarb and gingerbread cheesecake.

It was a whirlwind trip to Tokyo to promote the Japanese launch of The Little Swedish Kitchen cookbook, TV show and The Little Paris Kitchen DVD. I also had a speedy 36 hours in Yamanashi to film a NHK TV special. There wasn’t much time to explore but I did try to make the most of it and squeeze as much eating and little shopping too.

For the launch of My Swedish Kitchen on Food Network UK, I hosted another Swedish-themed workshop at Khoollect’s London studio. It was so lovely having some of my fellow foodies over to celebrate: Anna, Alice, Alexandra, Manon, Angellica, and Duyku.