I have always been the primary cook in our house. Like most women, I have a complicated relationship with food and appetite, but part of that complexity has always been pleasure. I like cooking. I like making many things – books, clothes, conversation – and there’s a particular satisfaction in making something good from materials of little promise. I enjoy designing knitwear that uses up odds and ends of yarn, making patchwork from remnants of dressmaking, reusing packaging, generally deploying ingenuity to make more of less. (It’s hereditary, I’m afraid; my grandmother used to wash and dry paper towels.
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