Rebecca Seal

Rebecca Seal’s latest cookbook is Ginger Pig One Pot, written with Tim Wilson from the Ginger Pig butchers.

Never put your pots and pans in the dishwasher

I don’t know how many teenagers are given a frying pan for their 18th birthday. Perhaps my friends managed to intuit my food-writing future, despite my party piece back then being an extremely tomato-heavy bolognaise. Twenty-five years on, having somehow survived university halls of residence and flatmates using – the horror – metal utensils in