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Sumac: Recipes and stories from Syria by Anas Atassi
Another in my series of mini-reviews about the cookbooks I love the most. Tales From Topographic Kitchens is a reader-supported publication. To receive…
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Odds and Sods
I haven't done an old fashioned round-up in a while....
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On Mothering
It’s that day again. The preceding weeks have been punctuated by emails from UK-based PRs asking if I’d like to be deleted from their Mothering Sunday…
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Affogato- but with beer
Some notes and references
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The Best Book on Food I Read This Year
Kim Foster’s The Meth Lunches is beautiful, harsh, and unforgettable.
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Second Helpings: Delicious Dishes to Transform Your Leftovers by Sue Quinn
Posts in the Food Book Thumbnail vertical are usually paywalled, but this one is free in the hope that some of you might consider taking out a paid…
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Vinegar
Writings on vinegar at what can be a saccharine time of year
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"Hot tamales baybeee!"
Latino food in New Orleans
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A Gospel of Biscuits
Where I worship Erika Council and her new biscuit cookbook
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German Baking by Jürgen Krauss and a rumination about cookery competitions.
The first thing I did when I received a copy of German Baking, a cookbook from The Great British Bake-Off’s (GBBO) Jürgen Krauss, was watch the season…
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Cake: A Slice of British Life by Andrew Baker - a review
Cake: A Slice of British Life by Andrew Baker (Mudlark / Harper Collins published Sept 28th 2023) ‘I believe that as a nation we have lost touch with…
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Dreaming of flint
In a recent dream, a knapped flint wall higher than my head bounds one side of a vegetable garden that has been planted in the grounds of our local…
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Tales From Topographic Kitchens
Tales From Topographic Kitchens
A feast of writing about food, eating and cookbooks in one easy-to-access place. Winner of the Guild of Food Writers Award for best online food writing 2020. Written by Fortnum & Mason's Cookery Writer of the Year 2022.
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