At a time when notions of identity, home and belonging are become increasingly contested, we wanted to look at what brings us together without erasing our differences.
We found the answer in food: it is at once a universal that unites us and a feature that makes us culturally distinct.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s story of putting down new roots in the kitchen and beyond, is a first, and fine, example in a series we are launching on food and belonging. Rather than grappling with abstract definitions of Britishness, we hope to present concrete incarnations of the range, breadth and richness of all that the modern British identity can encompass.