Michelle Meadows

Overnight oats with homemade rhubarb jam She is the actress with a smart comeback to any line and the design journalist with a sharp description of any event. When Michelle Meadows is not in the middle of finishing up a magazine story while fixing a flat tire on her bike, she is probably YouTubing how-to tutorials of some home construction project most of us would never dream of taking on ourselves. Yes, house foundation and roof insulation could be words in her searches. So, when we got a summer breakfast invitation to her beloved allotment right outside Stockholm, we did not hesitate a second to accept.  “My favorite place to have breakfast is here at my allotment. I wake up, open the door and walk barefoot into the garden. For such a small house, it’s 26 square meters, I have a pretty equipped kitchen. I find that I enjoy cooking even more when I have grown the ingredients myself, so I have filled the cupboards with all kinds of appliances, some used more frequently than others…”