Archive - Tabled

Old Macdonald Had A Farm, E-I-E-I-- Oh! my giddy aunt!

Despite access to the countryside growing up, I never gave thought to where meals came from. Who owns the world's farmland?

Jun 17 • Julia Watson

Fungal Matters: fungi matter

Mushrooms are a bit of a furtive vegetable. But they make a satisfying central dish. A recipe for Roasted King Oyster Mushrooms

Jun 10 • Julia Watson

How to cook supergones

Does predictive text enflame you? Recipes for summer tomatoes - Chilled Roasted Tomato Soup with Herb Mousse, and more

Jun 3 • Julia Watson

May 2026

Food, glorious food! What next is the question?

Food & Drink is one of Substack's most popular categories. But how much do some of us care about the safety of what is added to it?

May 27 • Julia Watson

You fool, you! It's so easy!

Who doesn't want a quick, easy dessert that will impress? A recipe for all sorts of fruit fool

May 20 • Julia Watson

Truly taking the biscuit

With ice creams and summer fruit desserts on the doorstop, you need a cookie to eat with them. A recipe for hazelnut shortbread biscotti

May 13 • Julia Watson

Peas that please

Unless you've picked them yourself, peas in the pod are bullets. Buy frozen. A recipe for Chicken with soupy peas and lettuce

May 6 • Julia Watson

April 2026

Petri-dish chocolate? Coming your way

Just as AI could take our jobs, so might lab-chocolate deny farmers their livelihood. A recipe for home-made chocolate spread

Apr 29 • Julia Watson

New-fangled farming? No, good farming

With political turbulence and climate affecting food security, how we farm needs rethinking.

Apr 22 • Julia Watson

The pot-bellied berry that's a veg

The aubergine - a versatile vegetable that has become 'on trend'. A recipe for eggplant, Middle East style

Apr 15 • Julia Watson

A favourite food? Almost everything

If you can nominate one favourite thing to eat, I doff my cap to you. A recipe for Fennel Gratin

Apr 8 • Julia Watson

Be a good egg and buy one child-labour-free

Children as young as 5 pick the cocoa nibs for your chocolate bar. An Easter recipe for an easy Chocolate Tart

Apr 1 • Julia Watson