Eagle-eyed readers might recognise Su Scott’s name. In 2019, she won best reader’s recipe at our annual awards with her take on kimchi jjigae, a feel-good stew. The award was a turning point for Scott who wrote a food blog and now lives in London but, back then, didn’t cook that much Korean food.
“Making my mum’s kimchi stew, which my father liked, I remember thinking, ‘I can be proud of this. This is what makes me Korean, and I need to find out more,’” says Scott, whose debut cookbook, Rice Table, is published in March.
