What is the Point of a Cookbook?: A Vittles Panel

Rukmini Iyer is the author of the bestselling Roasting Tin series, selling over 1.75 million copies to date worldwide. They have been named as best books of the year in the Sunday Times, The Guardian, the Daily Mail, The Observer and BBC Good Food, and she regularly cooks recipes from the series on BBC, Saturday Kitchen. Rukmini has recently enjoyed exploring long-form writing on her Substack, 'At the Table', and her latest book, The Green Cookbook with Vintage books, is out now. When she's not scrambling to meet deadlines for her weekly Guardian Feast column, Rukmini enjoys gardening (this year it's all about roses, salvias & small trees) and towing her children & border collie around London finding places both she and her three year old will eat. (Anywhere with chips is a win.)

Ozoz Sokoh is a Nigerian food writer, explorer, and educator whose work celebrates the abundance of Nigerian cuisine and its global connections. A former exploration geologist, her debut cookbook, Chop Chop: Cooking the food of Nigeria is available in the UK in April. Her research and documentation focuses on reclaiming and reimagining foodways, tracing the roots of Nigerian and West African cuisine. Ozoz also celebrates the joy of eating across the Black Atlantic in her online resource, Feast Afrique. It contains an open-source digital library with resources from the 1800s to date, and more about the intellectual contributions of West Africa to global food culture. She is a professor of Food and Tourism Studies at Centennial College, Ontario, and lives with her three teenage children in Mississauga, part of the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.

Ruby Tandoh is a writer from Essex, currently living in London. She has written for The New Yorker,Vittles, ELLE,TheGuardian and more, and has written a book called All Consuming, about modern food culture, out in Autumn this year.

Sophie Wyburd is a cook, recipe writer and presenter from South London. Formerly heading up the food team at Mob, you can now find her recipes in her debut cookbook Tucking In, and in her bestselling newsletter Feeder. Her recipes have been featured in The Times, Good Food, Sainsbury’s Magazine and the Financial Times, and she regularly appears on Saturday Kitchen. She also hosts supper clubs in London.

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