The pandemic has forced a balance in the nation’s perspective where food writing is concerned. - Yemisi Aribisala

One of the greatest ironies of writing is that you can write for a hundred years, write reams, but until you have something that resembles a book, you are never allowed to call yourself an author.

The truth is you have to get on top of the reading as soon as possible and you have to keep in mind that this is the sum of people’s YEARS of hard labour, sweat and pain that you hold in your hands. Without being able to meet all the people who make that thing in your hand possible, you have to conjure up their presence, interact with every single book with great reverence.

There is nothing any of us can do about the fact that the world is shrinking so we need to learn how to speak more languages, not fewer.