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David Jesudason is a freelance journalist writing for national newspapers including the Guardian and Independent. He also covers film and TV for BBC Culture and music for Kerrang!
Plant-based Nigerian cook Tomi Makanjuola was told her work was ‘unsellable’ because she ‘wasn’t a Nigella Lawson’ – now a successful self-published food writer, she tells David Jesudason about the realities of racism in food publishing, cultural barriers to veganism and the versatility of plantains.
Issue 12: Fairness and five years.
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