Subscribe to Andrew's weekly newsletter here for all his latest writing. A painting of a Hake. "It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me," reflects Ishmael in Moby Dick. While Ishmael was referring to the sublime – in the Romantic sense – and terrifying enormity of Moby Dick, for me there is nothing quite like the soft, flaky whiteness of a perfectly pan-fried piece of fish – it is among the most brilliant versions of the colour white we can hope to find in our...

Subscribe to Andrew's weekly newsletter here to learn all about his latest writing. What do you get when you cross a poet with a chef? I dread to think. A poety chef? A cheffy poet? How different are poets and chefs anyway? Earlier today I listened to Pierre Koffman: A Life Through Food (The Food Programme). This is the umpteenth episode of this BBC Radio series I’ve listened to and by now I’m starting to see quite clearly that perhaps poets and chefs are a very similar type of character. If...

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