Alice Zaslavsky

1. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Alice Zaslavsky

   Alice Zaslavsky’s satay-butter charred cabbage wedges with fragrant chicken mince – recipe (opens the original)

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   The cookbook author has a shortcut method for blanching vegetables that saves on time, equipment and water I love a burnt brassica, and there’s no better flavour than the big mama herself: the cabbage. Vegetables in the cruciferous family, like brussels sprouts, broccoli and cauliflower, have naturally bitter compounds. However, with concentrated heat, this bitterness is transformed into sweetly caramelised corners and burnished bits. It’s one way to make brassica boo-ers braver. But getting

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2. Article · Aug 4, 2026 · Alice Zaslavsky

   Alice Zaslavsky’s Georgian-spiced carrot, sweet potato and lentil soup – recipe (opens the original)

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   Georgian spices can be hard to come by, but Alice Zaslavsky has some seasoned substitutes for her cosy soup In one of my favourite recent releases by a Georgian-born author, Leo Vardiashvili’s Hard by a Great Forest, the protagonist is told that meeting a Georgian outside Georgia is so rare it’s akin to winning the lottery. “Because the odds of winning the lotto are much better. You could have been a millionaire, my friend. Instead, you met me.” There are fewer than 6 million Georgians i

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