“We don’t review new restaurants, write about food trends or interview chefs,” explain David Lane and Marina Tweed, the 30-year-old London couple behind The Gourmand – the game-changing magazine on the culture of food. “Instead we see food as a way of bringing people together.”
Lane and Tweed practice what they preach. They are currently in New York for Design Week, putting together a fruit stand in the Vitsoe Store. “We’re serving fruit tarts and sodas, and we’ve made a fruit cookbook too,” says Tweed. “Then we’re off to LA… there’ll be a road trip and vast amounts of eating.”
What’s their favourite dish to cook? “I like really simple, fresh food – dishes with three good ingredients – and Marina likes eating it!” laughs Lane. A love of good food has always been at the heart of their relationship: “We met in a deli where I worked when I was 18… I made Marina a good sandwich and we’ve been together ever since.”
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