Christmas gifts from (mainly) Suffolk for food lovers
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I don't want you to miss this!
Here's a super-short, spur-of-the-moment post about a news story published just a few hours ago. Abbas Asaria's report on the servilletas of the Iberian Peninsula and the man collecting them is a tiny joy in defiance of the relentlessly awful news cycle.
Bones
It feels a little perverse of me to wonder whether there's a food or cookbook angle to National Scoliosis Awareness Month which takes place in the June of each year. If I was being lazily obvious I'd tell you about Cooking on the Bone by Jennifer
Beth Chatto and me
In 1988, I was 21 with a tiny baby daughter and—loving her aside—a serious case of not knowing what to do with my life. My family did not greet the news of my pregnancy with delight. My father’s response? “It’s not like a rabbit! You can’
The perfect completeness of eggs and why my writing is anything but...
I have developed a (probably irrational) dislike of posts that begin with “Am I the only one who…” and then proceed to describe an incredibly common human experience as though it were a divine revelation. Amplified by social media algorithms that favour superficial engagement, their strong PFB (precious firstborn) energy