At Home With Teddy Kennedy

A morning in Copenhagen with Teddy Kennedy, talking motherhood, Spanish food traditions and pan con tomate

At Home With is an original series from Honest Toil exploring the people using our olive oil in their own homes. Through conversations, recipes and personal stories, the series offers a glimpse into the spaces, traditions and rituals that shape the way we cook at home – celebrating thoughtful ingredients, shared tables and the role our olive oil plays in everyday kitchens.

For our latest At Home With, we spent the morning with Teddy Kennedy, Brand & Communications Manager at independent fashion label 7115 by Szeki, at her home in Copenhagen.

Working remotely gives Teddy the freedom to move between work, motherhood and everyday life at her own pace. It’s a sense of balance that carries throughout her home: warm wood meets softer aluminium, treasured tea and coffee equipment earns its place on the counter, and everything else is kept intentionally minimal. Since becoming a mother, creating a calm and functional space has only become more important.

Motherhood itself, however, hasn’t changed Teddy as much as simply added a plus one to everything she does. Her daughter follows her everywhere, naturally becoming part of the everyday rhythms of home, work and cooking, rather than existing separately from them. “I am still very much who I am, just with another person to love and care for.” Teddy has always considered herself patient and caring, and motherhood has felt less like becoming someone new and more like discovering those qualities in herself even further. There’s something refreshingly simple about the way she describes it: the life, interests and person she was before are all still very much there – there’s just a little plus one experiencing it alongside her now.

The same sense of ease runs through the way Teddy cooks. Recipes rarely make an appearance; instead, she relies on intuition, opening the fridge and working with whatever she finds. Her partner often tells her she can make something out of nothing, an approach that allows cooking to sit somewhere between meditation and creativity rather than becoming another task to complete.

Food is also one of Teddy’s strongest connections to her Spanish heritage. Living away from home has made the small sensory details of cooking – a familiar flavour, smell or way of preparing something – all the more meaningful. “There is something very special about how food carries memories across generations. Even simple dishes can hold so much history – the way your parents made something, the smell of it in the kitchen, or the feeling of eating it at a certain time of day.”

For Teddy, preserving those traditions doesn’t mean recreating everything exactly as it was. Instead, it’s about carrying the feeling of home into her own life and creating new memories around the foods she grew up with. Fittingly, she made us one of the simplest and most nostalgic dishes in her repertoire: pan con tomate. A staple Spanish breakfast Teddy grew up eating, it requires little more than good toasted bread, ripe tomato, garlic, sea salt and plenty of extra virgin olive oil. Her version gets a final layer of anchovies for a salty, umami hit.

It’s the sort of food Teddy returns to again and again, easy enough for a quick breakfast or snack, but carrying far more meaning than its handful of ingredients might suggest.

“It doesn’t need much thought or preparation, yet immediately feels like home.”