Twin ambition: The Happy Pear on life, love and lockdown 

The Happy Pear have just launched their latest book, the ultimate teach-a-man-to-fish cookbook. They tell Helen O’Callaghan about lockdown gains and losses, about what it was like to turn 40, about how twin-ship can be hard on romantic relationships – and about what they’d love to do this summer.

In recent months Stephen Flynn, aka one half of the Happy Pear, has been getting close to sourdough. “I used lockdown to finesse the art of sourdough – I’ve been eating a lot of bread.”

The whole-food-advocating, vegan-eating identical twins are in the process of opening a bakery and their fourth cookbook published last week – The Happy Pear: Vegan Cooking for Everyone, billed as ‘a vegan cooking bible, perfect for the plant-based newbie and expert alike’.