Here are her top food accounts to follow.
Grand Dishes
I begin, of course, with our food and grandmother project. Follow for wisdoms and witticisms, time-perfected recipes and traditions from the grannies of the world. It’s both an instructive and a comforting place.
La Grotta Ices
An incredibly beautiful account by ice cream maestro Kitty Travers, this feed makes you long to be sun-drenched in Sicily. A lot of positive saliva will build up as you scroll. Expect inventive and inviting flavours like pineapple and lemongrass or prune, butterscotch and salted caramel.
The Gourmand
Where food and art collide. A steady, polished feed from the ‘contemporary food, arts and culture’ print magazine. Dogs named after foods, mice scaling cheese, pasta architecture: it’s all here.
Laila Cooks
Laila is an artist and sculptress of food who has created edible work for Simone Rocha. See the Dali-inspired prawn tower, giant raspberry tart served by men in white gloves, butter carved into body parts for evidence of her genius.
St John Restaurant
This legendary restaurant by Fergus Henderson is classic, timeless and chic (think crispy white linen under white plates with artful platings of delicious looking things). Naturally, the St John feed will get you hungry. Posts often come with a nugget of context or philosophy behind the food.
Luke Edward Hall
An interior designer with a penchant for lobster: what’s not to love? Features smashing hand-painted plates you’d never smash and a pink and midnight blue Greco-Roman style kitchen. A master curator of elegant table settings.
Totally Gourmet
An assortment of absurd food situations that will make you smile or raise an eyebrow. Raw photography. Sometimes a bit rude, sometimes a bit sexy, mostly just very satisfying with an ‘I wish I’d thought of that’ weirdness.
Kana London
The account of artist and ceramicist Anna via which we meet her beautiful hand-made plates, glazed loosely in lovely shades. She’s painted the f-word on some of them and they still maintain absolute class. All food looks excellent on them.
Romas Foord
Quite simply, if Caravaggio did food photography, it would look like this. A photographer for OFM and The Times Magazine, everything he does is romantic with dark undertones. We bow down to anyone who can make potatoes look like supermodels.
Alison Roman
Very good meal ideas and highly saturated photography from a cool New Yorker with great taste in clothes and colour palettes.
Tiny Chef
Bit rogue, incredibly weird, very cute, irresistible watching. It’s good to laugh to oneself now and then. Can’t quite believe it has 500k followers, but here I am, advocating it.
Olivia Bennet
My pal Olivia is an art director and stylist who puts lovely things together and plays with shadows and shapes like a food puppeteer. Lots of pink and mottled grey and freckly beige. Ethereal.
By Iska Lupton
February 2020
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