Search
Jenny Linford food writerJenny Linford food writer
Jenny Linford food writer
freelance food writer based in London
  • Home
  • Books
    • The Great British Food Tour
    • Repast: The Story of Food
    • The Kew Gardens Salad Book
    • The Kew Gardens Cookbook
    • The Missing Ingredient
    • Mushrooms
    • The Chef’s Library
    • Garlic
    • The Tomato Basket
    • 1001 Restaurants
    • The Creamery Kitchen
    • The London Cookbook
    • Great British Cheeses
    • Food Lovers’ London
  • Journalism
  • Tours and Talks
    • TOURS
    • TALKS
  • Radio and Podcasts
  • Jenny’s Food Words
  • News
  • Contact
Menu back  

Talks

Isle of Wight Literary Festival 2019

Northwood House
Sunday 13th October 11:40 – 12:40

The Missing Ingredient is about what makes good food, and the first book to consider the intrinsic yet often forgotten role of time in creating flavour. Written through a series of encounters with ingredients, producers, cooks, shopkeepers and chefs, exploring everything from the brief period in which sugar caramelises, the days required in the crucial process of fermentation in so many foods we love, to the months of slow ripening and close attention that makes a great cheddar, or the years needed for certain wines to reach their peak, Jenny Linford shows how, time and again, time itself is the invisible ingredient. Linford shows how paying attention to time in the kitchen and elsewhere improves our food, from the patient browning of meat to the long investment of many food producers in fields and storehouses around the world. The result is a joyful account of the vital role of time in our culinary lives.

Tickets available here

Jenny Linford & Alex MacKay

Cookbook Festival, Chiswick 2019

St Michael and All Angels Cookbook Marquee, London W4 1TT
Sun 15 Sep 2019, 12:00PM

Jenny Linford is fascinated by the unseen ingredient of time in cookery and the role it plays in developing flavour, from the split-second timing of a caramel or the days required for fermentation. Alex MacKay’s focus is primarily upon showing you ways to save time; the culinary wizard will turn your fridge and freezer into a fresh food larder.

Jenny and Alex’s event will be on Sunday the 15th of September, at 12:00 in the Church Marquee. Tickets are £15. and include a Bloody or Virgin Mary and tasters.

Tickets are available via Chiswick Book Festival website – link here.

Ludlow Food Festival

Where: Castle Garden Area of the Castle
When: 13th September 2019 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

Join Jenny Linford as she discusses her latest book –The Missing Ingredient: The Curious Role of Time in Food & Flavour.

Jenny will be joined by a couple of Ludlow Food Festival’s finest local producers who will bring the importance of time to life – demonstrating why Jenny’s book, and drawing attention to taking time to create good food, is so important.

This FREE talk will take place in the Aardvark Festival Bookshop, in the Castle Gardens area of the Castle.

The Missing Ingredient

June 8 2019 2pm – 3pm

at Meat N16 104 Stoke Newington Church Street, London, N16 0LA

What makes good meat? Which cuts of meat work best for a slow-cooked stew or a speedy stir-fry? How do you successfully cook a steak medium rare? Join food writer Jenny Linford, author of The Missing Ingredient: the Curious Role of Time in Food and Flavour and butcher Sam Mitchell of MeatN16, Stoke Newington’s very own, much-loved butcher’s shop, as they discuss time and meat, followed by a demonstration of Sam’s banger-making skills. Tastings included!

More information about the festival >

Buy tickets >

How To Write A Cookbook

British Library logo

May 20 2019

With writers and chefs Sybil Kapoor and Jenny Linford

You may love to cook, and perhaps write too, but what really goes into making a cookbook?

Take a peek behind the scenes with two highly respected food writers, Sybil Kapoor and Jenny Linford, to find out about the process of writing and creating a cookbook, as they share their trials, tribulations and top tips.

More information here >

Share
Categories
  • Food News
  • Jenny’s Food Words
Follow me on Instagram
Food Stories
  • My interview with chef Richard Corrigan published in Seasoned By Chefs magazine
    17th April 2016
  • Persian Lamb Ragout - Xoresht-s Badenjan
    Celebrating the Iranian New Year
    12th August 2013
  • Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Committee: Food Security inquiry launch
    12th August 2013
  • A Trip to Duckett’s Caerphilly
    12th August 2013
Blogs

You can find more food stories on Jenny's blogs.

London Food Chronicles

London Laksa

Instagram
Credits
Photography: Chris Windsor
Website: Dragonfish Graphics
Instagram

Copyright © 2026 Jenny Linford | Privacy Policy | Cookie Policy

Manage Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
  • Manage options
  • Manage services
  • Manage {vendor_count} vendors
  • Read more about these purposes
View preferences
  • {title}
  • {title}
  • {title}