John Clements
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Chef and Food Writer
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Fish and Chips
Longs, King Street, Bridport. January, 2026.
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about 2 months ago
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Missed Opportunities
January 2026
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3 months ago
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Missing in December
2025 Bridport, Dorset.
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4 months ago
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Nigella Lawson
5 months ago
And I’m also keen to alert you to this new edition of Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook
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Rachel Roddy
5 months ago
On 28th November I will be in conversation with
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Beginnings
Pollo a la Brasa/Peruvian Chicken
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6 months ago
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Wild foraged Dorset porcini pasta at the restaurant today.
7 months ago
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Seduction
The Seaside Boarding House, Burton Bradstock. July 2024
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7 months ago
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Great night at the fabulous Marshwood Manor, Dorset last night with Rachel Roddy and Ilaria Padovani as they shared some regional Italian cuisine musings. The food and company was great too!
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Our Story | Bridport Market | Pizzeria & Café | Italian Wholesale Supplier — Mercato Italiano
Ilaria’s relationships with the Italian producers and her skill of finding the highest quality produce led her to expand the Mercato Italiano business, supplying UK restaurants and cafes as a wholesal...
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Happy Places
Mercato Italiano. Bridport, Dorset. May, 2025.
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8 months ago
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Why Do I Write?
A Letter to Myself
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8 months ago
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The News Agents
9 months ago
"How do you get away with dropping your trousers, talking about your cock, then blaming neurodiversity? It’s sickening."
@maitlis.bsky.social
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react to the Gregg Wallace backlash after he blamed his autism for the 50+ allegations of inappropriate workplace behaviour.
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Old Friends
K. Yuen. Bridport. June 2025
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9 months ago
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KM Elkes
9 months ago
Very happy indeed to have a short story commissioned by the BBC! Broadcast 3.45pm July 11th, on Radio 4 and Sunday 13th at 11.45pm
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BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, Snowbirds and Coyotes by KM Elkes
After the death of her husband, Betty drives south from Ohio to the Arizona desert.
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Fridge Health
I left home at 17.
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10 months ago
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Playing in the Shadows of Giants
The City of Oxford Guild of Chefs Annual Competition. April 16, 2025
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11 months ago
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The West Dorset Magazine
12 months ago
Sun's out, April edition is OUT! Go get yours at one of these stockists:
westdorsetmag.co.uk/stockists
or read online. Oh, and did we mention our NATIONAL AWARD?
#newspaperawards
#hyperlocal
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Dongnae. Bristol. March 2025.
Second Chances
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about 1 year ago
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Jimmy Hill and Sweetcorn.
Kitchen Musings and Conversations - Belonging.
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about 1 year ago
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The West Dorset Magazine
about 1 year ago
Hooray! We are in the finals of the 2025 Newspaper Awards! Second time lucky?
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The Delicious Taste of Regret
Doner Kebab Musings. February 2025
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about 1 year ago
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Ian McQue
about 1 year ago
About as succinct as it gets
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Get Yer Stock On
2025 New Year
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over 1 year ago
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One of Suzie’s best
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over 1 year ago
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When My Partner Cancelled Christmas
(Warning - Do not read this if you are 100% in the Christmas spirit).
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over 1 year ago
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Burgers and Vivaldi
Hub Box, Exeter, November, 2024
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over 1 year ago
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Grace Dent
over 1 year ago
I wrote this today about Christmas food being full of ghosts. Is it ok with Aunt Beat (dead, 1991) to not buy Colmans Bread Sauce? Will my dead father want this Dairy Milk? Is it ok to give myself a break? OF COURSE NOT.
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Grace Dent’s joyeux Noël: ‘It’s time I made some new Christmas memories – in small, French steps’
No amount of joining the Christmas supermarket scrum will recreate the sight of my mam’s hands on the trolley
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KM Elkes
over 1 year ago
Childhood is a both a shared experience everyone understands, and yet our own childhoods are completely unique. My latest Substack post explores how this can be a rich source of inspiration for writers.
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Universal, yet unique – using childhood as inspiration
“Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.” ―Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose.
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Good Night and Thanks for the Fish
Noah’s, Bristol, October 2024
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over 1 year ago
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