Sophie Cumber is head butcher at Mountain in Soho, the new restaurant from Brat’s Tomos Parry. Sophie graduated from the Leiths Three Term Professional Diploma in Food and Wine in 2013 before going into butchery full time. Here she tells us about learning to cook, finding her vocation, and sourcing the country’s finest produce.
Fonio is a West African ‘superfood’. It’s cultivated from two species of grass with small grains. It’s extremely nutritious with a very favourable taste. It’s gluten free and high in dietary fibre.
Thom Elliot is co-founder of Pizza Pilgrims with his brother James. Before launching Pizza Pilgrims in 2013, they undertook a six-week pizza pilgrimage to Italy to learn all they could about pizza. They now have branches across London and in Brighton, Nottingham, Cambridge and Oxford. We spoke to Thom about all things pizza.
