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Jenny Linford food writer
freelance food writer based in London
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Jenny Linford

I’m a freelance food writer, a member of the Guild of Food Writers and author of fifteen books, ranging from cookery books to ingredient guides. Over the years I’ve written for a variety of publications, including The Guardian, Time Out’s Eating Out guides and The Times. My website work has included researching and writing for the British Library’s Food Stories website, a fascinating project using audio-clips from the Life Stories collection.

Born in London, my interest in food stems from living as a child in Singapore and Italy, places where good food is important to the community, both taken for granted and relished as a great pleasure.

I’m an inveterate food shopper, always on the look-out for ingredients to cook with or delicious things to eat, whether it be tangy barberries from an Iranian supermarket or a freshly baked barbecued pork bun from one of Chinatown’s bakeries. London’s fantastically diverse food scene offers constant inspiration for recipes, articles and books such as Food Lovers’ London and The London Cookbook.

In 2020, the Covid-19 crisis changed many aspects of our lives, including how we shopped for and consumed food. Beginning with my British Cheese Crisis piece – written off my own bat to highlight the disastrous situation facing British cheesemakers with the closure of hospitality which struck a remarkable chord with people – I’ve written a series of pieces exploring and charting through producers and retailers the impact of the pandemic on people in the British food scene.

Find out more in my Food Words section of this website.

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Jenny’s Food Words
  • Food Words - Baker
    The Butcher, the Baker, the Chelsea Fishmonger
    31st December 2020
  • The Online Marketplace
    24th December 2020
  • Cheesemongers
    Blessed are the Cheesemongers
    22nd December 2020
  • British Cheese Crisis
    16th April 2020
Latest News
  • Brogdale apples
    Apple Days
    9th October 2020
  • Article about cheeses in The New Yorker
    Credited in The New Yorker
    15th August 2020
  • BBC World Service The Food Chain
    The Food Chain, BBC World Service
    15th August 2020
  • Markets Matter
    25th June 2020
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Excellent @BBCFarmingToday this morning, including the post-Brexit export situation and the Government's controversal decision to allow English sugar beet growers to use an EU-banned neonicotinoid bbc.co.uk/programmes…

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'Lemons are not just handy, longlasting, perfectly packaged, sunny . . . they are a sort of edible electricity.' Lovely, enlivening writing by @racheleats and a mouthwatering recipe for Spaghetti with Lemon, Parmesan and Cream in today's @GuardianFeast pic.twitter.com/C5OC…

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Actually managing to read the Saturday @guardian on Saturday! Great @GuardianFeast - @ottolenghi apple dumplings, @cookinboots kale riff on patra @meerasodha Hoppin' John, @romygill_ paneer pakoras, @FelicityCloake fish pie. So much I want to cook! pic.twitter.com/Lr2t…

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Curry puffs a childhood favourite snack of mine growing up in Singapore. Fascinating article on their Portuguese roots, especially as my family in Singapore are Portuguese Eurasian originally from Malacca. scmp.com/lifestyle/f…

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A @CourtyardDairy delivery always cheering. Wanted to try two new @st_jamescheese goats' milk cheeses: washed rind Apatha -lovely nutty sweetness and savoury rind - and Holbrook, a tasty, hard cheese aged for 6 months. Great work, Martin and Nicola. pic.twitter.com/lBlY…

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