A Recipe For Homecoming

Foyer Magazine, Issue 4: Food, Spring 2025

"What culminated was a night where I not only got to see the woman who gave birth to me face to face for the first time but also had her teach me to cook. It was equal parts a joyful homecoming and a source of churning anxiety - thankfully the former won out. With my partner and parents as moral support I made perhaps the most meaningful meal in my life."

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About the Issue:

In Issue 04, we meet chef-owner Ellinor Strinnholm, connect with food content-creator Natalie Jones, get spicy with chilli-oil entrepreneur Eyan Chan, and explore the food start-up community with Suzana Orsolic. We discover how kitchen objects create connections, take time to appreciate the ambience of where we eat, rediscover forgotten recipes, examine food as botanical art, and find solace in the expat food shop. Through photo essays, we experience favourite dishes, appreciate the tastes of home, uncover how food photography shapes our experience, and the heartfelt process of decolonising our bodies. And we see how food weaves itself into cultural norms, investigate farming and cooking as a collective practice, ask ourselves 'what are recipes?', and consider how hosting opens opportunities for personal connection. Through Q&As with creatives, we unpick what food really means to us, appreciate how food holds both time and love, and how, ultimately, we are all welcome at the table.