When he was a teenager, Joe Woodhouse bred and showed whippets. His dogs won the junior category at Crufts and other big shows. On the way home to their farm in Cambridge, he and his mum would stop at pubs for some food. Woodhouse has been a vegetarian since he was 10 and, this being the 1990s, Woodhouse’s best hope was that the pub would serve mushroom stroganoff with wild rice.
Woodhouse, a 35-year-old former chef who is now a food photographer and stylist, revisits that dish in his vivid, inspiring new cookbook, Your Daily Veg.