World Dumpling Champion 2024!
Andy Barklem with judges Josh Smith and Zena Leech-Calton, photograph Nick Butcher. Andrew Barklem talks dumplings with Eve Stebbing. You are our this year's World Dumpling Champion. How does that make you feel? Delighted to have a new dish inaugurated into the World of dumpling cuisine. Were dumplings special to you growing up? Not so much special, I always found them rather unique. Can food express something about the soul of a place? Scouse being adopted from the seafaring Scandinavian's stew 'Lob-Skause', is a favourite stew of Liverpudlians, I decided on the idea of substituting the potatoes with dumplings. This dish has a restless soul and like its forebears, needs to travel. Why do you think recipes like this get handed down from one generation to the next? A good place to hang out in the home as a child is the kitchen as there you are permeated in the generations of your culture. Can you imagine anyone in your family making ...