Selected Writing

Spring feasts for the Easter weekend
The Observer
March 2026

Recipes for romance
The Observer
February 2026

Ode to a midnight feast
The Observer
December 2025

The Only Queer in the Village?
DIVA Magazine
May 2024

We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Slightly Foxed Magazine
September 2023

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

Cider with Rosie (foreword)
Slightly Foxed Magazine
Winter 2022

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

Friends Through a Lens: Weddings with Kate Young
Sentimental Garbage
October 2025

Tick, Tick… BOOM! with Kate Young
Sentimental Garbage
February 2025

What it means to be experienced with Kate Young
Better Words
October 2024

#117: Kate Young — Writing Cookbooks, Viral Blogs, Plotting Romcoms and Writing Sex Scenes
London Writers’ Salon
September 2024

178 Kate Young | Cookbook Author and Contemporary Fiction Novelist
The Write and Wrong Podcast
July 2024

Kate Young & Nicola Dinan: Experienced
London Review Bookshop Podcast
June 2024

How to Make Dinner for One with Kate Young
Nobody Panic
May 2024

Strictly Ballroom with Kate Young
Sentimental Garbage
October 2023

Baking with Kate Young
Sentimental Garbage
April 2023

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