The Bureau of Taste

Nicola Lando - Sous Chef Founder

  • What Are the Best Olive Oil Brands?

    What Are the Best Olive Oil Brands?

    by Nicola Lando
  • Know The Ingredient: What Are Glass Noodles?

    Know The Ingredient: What Are Glass Noodles?

    by Nicola Lando
  • The Ultimate Guide To Pitted Olives

    The Ultimate Guide To Pitted Olives

    by Ellie Edwards
  • how to make perfect macarons and solve common problems that occur

    5 Common Problems When Making French Macarons

    by Nicola Lando
  • French Pâtissier's Secret Ingredient - 3 Recipes Using Feuilletine

    French Pâtissier's Secret Ingredient - 3 Recipes Using Feuilletine

    by Nicola Lando
  • Yuzu Sorbet Recipe

    Yuzu Sorbet Recipe

    by Nicola Lando
    • 1 hour 35 with added setting time

    • Intermediate

  • High Polyphenols in Olive Oil

    Polyphenols in Olive Oil: Health Benefits & What to Look for

    by Nicola Lando
  • Yakitori Chicken

    Yakitori Chicken Recipe

    by Nicola Lando
    • 1 hour

    • Easy

  • Pork Tonkatsu Recipe With Miso & Cabbage Salad

    Pork Tonkatsu Recipe With Miso & Cabbage Salad

    by Nicola Lando
    • 40 minutes

    • Easy

  • Meat Cooking Temperatures: The Quick Guide

    Meat Cooking Temperatures: The Quick Guide

    by Nicola Lando
  • A Guide To American BBQ

    A Guide To American BBQ

    by Nicola Lando
  • Spaghetti Carbonara

    Spaghetti Carbonara Recipe

    by Nicola Lando
    • Easy

  • Your Christmas Food Gifts Sorted

    Your Christmas Food Gifts Sorted

    by Nicola Lando
  • What is panettone, the best panettone to buy for Christmas a buyers guide

    How To Find The Best Panettone

    by Nicola Lando
  • Loison Italian panettone buy

    Loison Top Line: Some of The Best Panettone You'll Taste

    by Nicola Lando

Nicola Lando - Sous Chef Founder

Nicola is co-founder and CEO at Sous Chef. She has worked in food for over ten years.

Nicola first explored cooking as a career when training at Leiths, before spending the next decade in Finance. However... after a stage as a chef at a London Michelin-starred restaurant, Nicola saw the incredible ingredients available only to chefs. And wanted access to them herself. So Sous Chef was born.

Today, Nicola is ingredients buyer and a recipe writer at Sous Chef. She frequently travels internationally to food fairs, and to meet producers. Her cookbook library is vast, and her knowledge of the storecupboard is unrivalled. She tastes thousands of ingredients every year, to select only the best to stock at Sous Chef.

Nicola shares her knowledge of ingredients and writes recipes to showcase those products. Learning from Sous Chef's suppliers and her travels, Nicola writes many of the recipes on the Sous Chef website. Nicola's recipes are big on flavour, where the ingredients truly shine (although that's from someone who cooks for hours each day - so they're rarely tray-bakes!).