Selected Writing

A Love Letter to… Hellman’s Mayonnaise
Waitrose Magazine
February 2022

Cider with Rosie (foreword)
Slightly Foxed Magazine
Winter 2020

How to host a stress free dinner party
The Independent
October 2022

Hazy Memories of Hanging Rock
Slightly Foxed Magazine
Summer 2020

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this”: what it’s like to be working on a Covid-19 vaccine
Prospect Magazine
24 March 2020

As a teenager, I wish there had been “ordinary” queer couples on TV
Prospect Magazine
23 January 2020

How to win at The Game of Life
On Relationships
A 3 of Cups Press anthology

I wrote extensively for the Guardian between 2015 and 2018, in my Novel Recipes column. I have also written for Pit Magazine about sausage sizzles, the Pool about mental health and running (and about dungarees), for delicious about loving February, for Waitrose Magazine about parties, for Sainsbury’s Magazine about food for your freezer, for the Oxford English Dictionary about cheesecakes, and for Stylist, Food52, Emerald Street, Skylife Magazine, Oh Comely!, and Anthropologie Magazine. 

Podcasts, Radio, and Interviews

Food with Kate Young.
Legit Classics
June 2022

Kate Young.
Queers in Food and Beverage.
February 2022

Food Glorious Food, with Katherine Rundell and Kate Young.
Down the Rabbit Hole.
February 2022

Mona Lisa Smile with Kate Young.
Sentimental Garbage
October 2021

Christmas Cooking: The 2020 Edit.
The Food Programme.
21 December 2020

How food on film is the secret ingredient to storytelling.
The Food Programme.
08 June 2020

The Camomile Lawn with Kate Young.
Sentimental Garbage.
21 March 2020

Words Into Food.
The Allusionist.
17 August 2019

Food inspired by literature with Kate Young.
At the Sauce.
26 July 2019

Iris Murdoch Special.
Open Book - BBC Radio 4.
14 July 2019

Hungry Reader.
Meant to be Eaten.
17 March 2019

Dining with Death.
Shedunnit.
23 January 2019