A little practice – and having a few easy recipes up your sleeve – is the best way to ace it in the kitchen

My chief piece of advice to anyone embarking on higher education this year is to relax; you’ve done the hard bit. Cooking has nothing on all those exams you took to get here – in fact, feeding yourself is often a lot of fun, even the bits you get wrong, like attempting to boil pasta in a kettle (do not do this, I speak from experience).

The more you practise in the kitchen, the better you’ll get, so think of this as a lifelong project, with delicious perks. To this end, identify a clutch of relatively simple dishes you already enjoy before you leave home; just as you wouldn’t expect to be able to tackle the Ramayana after a couple of Sanskrit lessons, if you’re new to Thai cooking you’re best off starting with khao pad and working up to massaman curry (for example).

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