Olia Hercules

Black Mushrooms & Blood Sausage – “I love black dishes – the idea of making dishes as frightening as possible, I love [laughs]. So I cook down the blood sausage with some onion and red wine, and

Inside Roger Phillips’ Kitchen – The master of mushrooms on his favourite vegetable, a divisive kitchen gadget and his two most prized food books

Roger Phillips’ London Address Book – The mushroom expert recommends his favourite bistro, two great London institutions and his local farmers' market

Olia Hercules’s London Address Book – The food writer and cook on her favourite Turkish restaurants, the special place she books when her mother comes to visit and her beloved local corner shop

Olia Hercules – The author of Mamushka recalls childhood food exploits in Ukraine, shows us her collection of old Soviet kitchen implements and throws together a giant cheese twist for lunch

Moldovan Giant Cheese Twist – A soft, salty Moldovan pastry that's fun to make and very hard to stop eating, by food writer Olia Hercules

Inside Olia Hercules’s Kitchen – The author of Mamushka picks out a swan-feather pastry brush, her array of fermented herbs and the cookbooks that inspired her to write about food

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