jago rackham

interview

by BOBBI SALVÖR MENUEZ

portraits by JULES MOSKOVTCHENKO

creative direction by JOANA KOHEN

 

For the British cook, a shared meal is a domestic utopia. Through intuitive, ritual-like dinners, centered on traditional home cooking, he gathers people around the table, transforming nourishment into an act of love that restores body and spirit before returning to the world.

 

BOBBI SALVÖR MENUEZ — How did you grow up, and what was your relationship to food as a child?

JAGO RACKHAM — I was born in the Midlands in England. And then we moved to Devon in the English West Country, a rural village of about 400 people. Growing up in the countryside, you have a certain freedom. I would bike to my friends’ houses, and we’d go and steal apples from the orchards — a bucolic English childhood. Also, living in the country meant that we all lived quite…