Andrew Jamison

Apples are one of my favourite ingredients to cook with , when I’m not eating them by themselves. Dr Bircher-Benner, founding father of the Bircher Mueslie (aka overnight oats) was adamant about the multifarious qualities of raw apple, including minerals, high fiber and vitamins. Not only that but he saw them as a way to energise recovering patients and aid their digestion. I wonder if apples have become so ubiquitous that we have come to take their miraculous properties for

Cooking for Other People I can remember well the first time I cooked for other people. It was a beef and Guinness stew. I had to cycle to...

A journey through Andrew Jamison's life in food.

This was, and in many respects still is, my go-to takeaway lunch. Queen Mary was quite unique in relation to many other London...

The Home Bakery   The Home Bakery was Crossgar’s only bakery. I remember the shop itself only vaguely – small, a modest banner above the...

Houmous   As a student in London in the early 2000s houmous was ubiquitous; I’m not saying people were throwing it from windows or from...

In this video Andrew explains what this thread of his blog is about, what you can expect to find in it and why he started writing. You...

Burning a Frozen Pizza   The first night I had to cook for myself in London, I put a frozen pizza in the oven. Well, I thought it was the...

Chicken and Mushroom Pot Noodle   There are some statistics we may have wished to have recorded about our lives. Indeed some people do...

Wheaten Biscuits   There were always wheaten biscuits. In a tin. Up in the corner cupboard. In a Tupperware container. Probably going...

Dairylea Triangles   In the realms of processed cheese, there were five big players: The Kraft Cheese Slice, The Babybel, Cheese...

The serialisation of Andrew Jamison's prose nonfiction memoir.

The prose nonfiction serialisation by Andrew Jamison, exclusively for paid subscribers.

Angel Delight   Ultra-processed food is one of the great ills of our time (and for good reason) but whatever Angel Delight was or still...

Mince and Potatoes   ‘The Child is the father of the man’, wrote Wordsworth, and in my case what fed the child was mince and potatoes....

An exclusive extract from Andrew's prose non-fiction, just for paid subscribers.