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About

PR policy

 I’m  available for writing and photography commissions on food and travel. Contact me at [email protected]. I accept foreign travel opportunities and press trips.

You can send me products and I may mention them. I do accept books for review, although it may take some time.

Journalism

For writing and photography commissions, get in touch at [email protected]. I write mainly about food and travel (with fluent French, good Spanish), interior design, politics, film, motherhood, feminism and dating.

I have written for The Independent, The Guardian, House and Garden, Metro and write a monthly food column for the Ham and High, The Islington Gazette and Hackney Gazette, plus a wine column for winetrust100.co.uk.

Consultation, recipes and supper clubs

I create recipes and themed supper clubs for food and drink clients. Please get in touch with me if you would like my rates. I’m also available for menu consultation for restaurants, particularly vegetarian/vegan options.

Clients

British Organic Carrots
Spanish Persimmons
The Avocado Brotherhood
Douwe Egberts
Marmite
Cyprus Potatoes
Jersey Royals
Sony Pictures ‘Eat, Play, Love’
Ocado
The Soil Association/Organic foods
Bestival and Camp Bestival
Castello
Good Food Channel
South African Stone Fruit
The Grocer
Vital Arts Renal diet recipes
Wine Trust 100
Provence wine UK
Twinings
Fresh Herbs UK
American consulate
Marks & Spencers

Media appearances

I have appeared on TV several times on all the main terrestrial channels, recently presenting a segment on entertaining for BBC2’s Food and Drink show with Michel Roux Jnr. I have also appeared on radio from the Chris Evans show, to Woman’s Hour and BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme. In 2017, I contributed reportage to a programme on porridge. For a full list, please check out Press.

Photography

Originally I come from a visual arts background and trained as a photographer (kerstinrodgers.com), having had a number of exhibitions in Paris, Chartres and London. Starting out as a teenage photographer at the New Musical Express, my work has been published in all the main newspapers and magazines. My photography library is kept by Getty Images. An exhibition of my rock back catalogue is planned. The hit song ‘My Girl’s Mad at Me‘ by Madness was written about me. In 2018, my photographs were exhibited at the Getty Image Library exhibition ‘Beat Positive‘.

If you would like to commission me to photograph food, portraits, travel or. books or buy any of my photos, email [email protected].

Please do not use my photographs without my permission.

Bio

I launched the supper club/pop-up/underground restaurant movement in the UK in 2009 with my supper club The Underground Restaurant. Since then, hundreds of supper clubs have started in London and around the UK. My site Find a Supper Club is the central online resource for supper clubs to advertise their dates and locations.

I specialise in food, drink and travel. I’m a chef, recipe creator, author, blogger, photographer and social media influencer.

Awards

2014 Winner, best online food writer Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink awards
2014 Winner, Britmums outstanding blogger award
2014 Shortlistee, Pink Lady Food photography awards, Food in action section
2014 Shortlistee, European Street Food awards – best drink (home made root beer) and best dessert (pecan pie)
2013 Winner, Guild of Food Writers best blog of the year award
2012 Shortlistee, Guild of Food Writers best blog of the year award
2010 Evening Standard’s 1000 most influential people in London
2010 Shortlistee, London Restaurant Festival awards, for ‘One person’s passion’ award

Books

Supper Club: recipes and notes from the underground restaurant (Harper Collins, 2011)

MsMarmitelover’s Secret Tea Party (Square Peg, November 2014)

Get Started in Food Writing (Hodder Staughton, June 2015)

V is for Vegan (Quadrille, April 2015) (USA, 2016)

Organic Carrot cookbook (Red publications 2019)

Markets/events

A passionate believer in the punk philosophy of DIY but applied to food, I innovated The Underground Farmer’s Market to encourage small producers and food businesses to sell their wares. Some markets take place at night, incorporate music and a foodie dragon’s den, where a panel of experts give advice.

Talks and demonstrations

2018: Food demonstrations at Willesden Library for City Read.

2018: Vegan Christmas canapés at Eat, Drink Show, Olympia.

2017: Food demonstrations at Brent Libraries.

2017: Food demonstrations, vegetarian Christmas at Eat, Drink Show, London.

2015: Talk on the sharing economy in Athens, along with Airbnb, Uber.

2013 and 2015: talks at Food Blogger Connect, London.

2014: Talk on fantasy themed supper clubs for Nine Worlds Geek Fest. 

2013: Organised and headed Guardian masterclass on How to set up a supper club.

2013: Supper clubs, a journey at  The Lost Lectures

2013: Demonstration at Veg Fest, London.

2013: I gave a talk at The Apple Store, London, for School of Grazia.

2013: Talk about ‘A guide to Good Taste’ for Innocent Drinks, London.

2012: food trends for BBC World.

2012: Talk about ‘salt’ for  The Monday Club at The Assembly

2012: Talk ‘Tomorrow’s Table’ Global Food and Drink Summit for The Food People

2012: panel on Social Media for Editorial Intelligence

2012: Talk at the V & A

2011 to 14: Brit Mums Live conference: food styling and photography workshops, talking about copyright. 

2010-11: talks for the Women’s Institute

Judging

2017: Judge at the Great Taste Awards and the British Cheese Awards.

2015: I appeared on Celebrity Masterchef, judging afternoon tea.

2015: Judge for Indigo Hotels local food business competition.

2012 -2014: Judge at Young British Foodie awards for ‘the most irreverent chef’.

2013: Judge in the section ‘vegetable’ for the YBF awards along with Bruno Loubet and Simon Rogan.

2012: Judge for Editorial Intelligence journalism ‘online political commentator’ awards 2012

2012: Judge of Best parent/food blogger at the Britmums Conference 2012. 

Gardening/food workshops

Along with my colleague Zia Mays, I run Secret Garden Club, designed to promote the links between growing and cooking.

Blog header credit

The paintings were created by Margaret Rodgers. 

Email: [email protected]


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MsMarmiteLover aka Kerstin Rodgers.

Chef, photographer, author, journalist, blogger. Pioneer of the supperclub movement.

This is my food and travel blog, with recipes, reviews and travel stories. I also stray into politics, feminism, gardening.

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Broccoli Stilton soup. This freezing week is defin Broccoli Stilton soup. This freezing week is definitely a week for soups. My friend @jimfrommanc is staying & needs his hot lunch.
Cheese on toast with crushed chilli 🌶️ in Ven Cheese on toast with crushed chilli 🌶️ in Venice the fresh food market sells bouquets of colourful chillies. I’ve still got mine, drying in an enamel jug. #travelandfood
The Christmas tomato or piennolo di vesuvio. Read The Christmas tomato or piennolo di vesuvio. Read all about it: https://msmarmitelover.com/2022/12/christmas-in-naples.html  Got a couple of bunches hanging in my kitchen. #naples #campania #tomatoes🍅 #travelphotography
Opheliagram. This morning I photographed her in an Opheliagram. This morning I photographed her in an Italian outfit I bought in Naples on a William Morris playmat which looks great and is practical for tummy time. So many things are different about parenting now. Parents use apps to track feeding, pooing, weeing etc. You don’t bathe them anymore for the first few weeks because you want to leave the vernix ( the white waxy stuff they are covered in at birth) on their skin as long as possible. Nappies now have a line on them that turns blue if they’ve done a pee. White noise apps to help them sleep. New technology guides new parents. As well as ancient probably prehistoric customs being rediscovered. #granfluencer #grandaughter I’ve tagged in @siennamarla and @jamescalmus as the authors of this baby.
I made two dishes from one pack of white beans las I made two dishes from one pack of white beans last night. Soak, then cook with 2 stock cubes, water & a fan of bay leaves. When soft & cooked, scoop some into a soup bowl with plenty of stock, add white wine, fresh basil and or a scoop of pesto and a squeeze of lemon for soupe au pistou. Garnish with Parmesan. Today I cooked the pot until the liquid had almost disappeared and added a block of feta. I baked this in the oven for 20 to 30 minutes, added @pomoragoodfood new olive oil, salt and pepper for a gigantes plaki (but with smaller beans). Eat more beans!
What to make when you have lots of leftover egg yo What to make when you have lots of leftover egg yolks after making a pavlova? Zabaglione, that classic Italian trattoria dessert made from egg yolks, sugar & tons of masala sweet wine. Whisk it up over a bain-marie or be a bit cheaty & add a teaspoon of cornflour. Strong wrists needed. #italianfood #christmasdesserts #leftovers #cooksmart
The unpackaged vegan meats. My panel of 4 ( from c The unpackaged vegan meats. My panel of 4 ( from carnivore, to recent vegetarian, to long-time vegetarian to never eaten meat (my daughter)) tasted 18. It was quite a bushtucker trial. Carnivores & vegetarians liked very different things. Full report in next weeks @hamandhigh #veganuary #vegan #vegetarian #tastetest #fakemeat #plantbasedmeat
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Pasta buselli al cedro. Cedro or citron is a fragr Pasta buselli al cedro. Cedro or citron is a fragrant citrus & one of the founding citrus (along with pomelo and mandarin) that created all the other citrus fruits you know about. Usually candied, it is also used in this unusual neopolitan recipe in which you soak the zest in the pasta water overnight before cooking. Post up on the blog later today. Board a Xmas present from @siennamarla #pasta #naples #cedro #citrus
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My Sacher Torte (1 word or 2?) with a difference- My Sacher Torte (1 word or 2?) with a difference- bergamot marmalade in the middle. In the @hamandhigh this week. It’s bloody delicious. #chocolatecake #feelaustria #untoldstories #vienna #sachertorte
These are Mela Annurca apples, ‘mel’anurca’ These are Mela Annurca apples, ‘mel’anurca’ in Neapolitan dialect. They are a Christmas apple, in season now. I bought this little model basket of apples in San Gregorio di Armenia street in Naples where every year neopolitans buy something to add to their ‘presepe’ or nativity scene. Often scenes from markets to add to the expensive, anything from 500 euros to 5000 euros nativity crèches. Around Christmas this street is packed (watch out for pickpockets) with locals and tourist picking out their addition to the scene. Melanurca apples are picked in September then laid on the ground to ripen, turning them every day by hand, to ensure all sides transform from a yellow green into a Wicked Witch red. They are very healthy, particularly for your hair, according to scientists at the university of Naples. #naples #neopolitanchristmas #melanurca  #food #travel #sangregorioarmeno #presepenapoletano #nativityscenes
The Christmas tomato 🍅 or piennolo di vesuvio, The Christmas tomato 🍅 or piennolo di vesuvio, a local tomato that is sold around Christmas in Naples. It is grown with very little irrigation and lasts fresh up to a year. Hence it is used for tomato based Christmas dishes. This tomato has a thick skin and is really intense in flavour. It hangs outside grocers, on balconies, in kitchens, having been braided by ladies into bunches of 1.5 kilos. Each costs 15 euros. I went to visit the farmers and the ladies skilfully tying the tomatoes into clusters, using the vines to fasten them, like cherries. Boxed, these are given as gifts. Reel on the way! #naples #christmas #tomatoes #travel #food
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Ruota di pesce spada. A glorious oven baked Sicili Ruota di pesce spada. A glorious oven baked Sicilian fish dish, baked on onions, studded with garlic cloves wrapped in mint leaves, then more onions, capers, olives, oregano & rosemary. Use a thick central slice of swordfish (where can I get that in london?). I’m tasting grillo & Nero d’avola wines @tenutorapitala about an hour inland from Palermo. The owner is the last count Bernard de La gatinais. He has 3 daughters. He’s French (Brittany) and Sicilian. He spoke about how difficult it has been for wine growers since lockdown- so many restaurants closed. Now they are grappling with high energy & fuel costs. ##winesofsicilia #siciliaDOC #wine #travel #sicily
I love Venice. I love Maneskin. I love Italy. I lo I love Venice. I love Maneskin. I love Italy. I love boats and water. #biennalearte2022
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