This was *delicious* when I had it earlier this year – if you are after a weekend baking project, I highly recommend Chloe's mushroom stroganoff focaccia ! www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/chloe-rose... @vittles.bsky.social

a beautifully reported and important piece on live-in domestic workers in Singapore and the role of the picnics they make for each other to eat in public space on their scant days off: www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/adobo-to-b...

My new essay on mould, disorder, and trans life in the UK is out now in issue two of @vittles.bsky.social : www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/vittles-is...

Vittles magazine has an interview with me discussing the Michelin Guide in their latest edition (on Substack or by print subscription at £45 a year).

Anna Higham, the genius behind Quince bakery wrote some killer (and very straightforward) Christmas cookie box recipes for @vittles.bsky.social last year –  www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/make-your-...

It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites. About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Screaming, crying, throwing up open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...

Gift Guide is out! www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/vittles-ch...

Such a good piece up today on @vittles.bsky.social by Mariam Abdel-Razek (and incred illustration by Sing Yun Lee, too) www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-myth-o...

Hanna Thomas Uose on complex PTSD and finding a way to cook without knives in today's @vittles.bsky.social www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/soft-cooking

Wrote a bit about Bad Customers for @vittles.bsky.social! You need a paid sub I think but you should probably have one anyway open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...

I was beyond excited when the author of the new biography of Gertrude Stein, Francesca Wade, said she'd like to write about Alice B. Toklas for @vittles.bsky.social – and her essay is out today! Illustration by Ella Bucknall. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-alice-...

I was beyond excited when the author of the new biography of Gertrude Stein, Francesca Wade, said she'd like to write about Alice B. Toklas for @vittles.bsky.social – and her essay is out today! Illustration by Ella Bucknall. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-alice-...

If you appreciated Teen Vogue’s incisive and vital reporting on race and culture, thank the Black editors and journalists who did that work. If you read their stories on trans youth and queer liberation and disability, thank the queer and trans and disabled writers who wrote them. It’s simple math!!

"As streets in global capitals are homogenised by billionaire-owned chains and private equity, Mamdani highlights that small-food businesses add an unquantifiable joy to the experience of living in a dense, fast-paced city." A live-wire report of an essay by Apoorva Tadepalli (she needs to be here!)

A great dispatch from NYC in @vittles.bsky.social today about the role of small food businesses in Zohran Mamdani's campaigns – here's hoping some UK politicians take note... www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/how-did-zo...

Happy Halloween m.youtube.com/watch?v=maYn...

Local bookshops 💯💯💯 I am chatting to beloved @rachelaliceroddy.bsky.social at Manningtree Arts next month about cooking and writing and much more! www.manningtreearts.com/event-detail...

last week's cooking dinnerdocument.substack.com/p/cabbage-ri...

Issue two of @vittles.bsky.social in PRINT now available to pre-order! It has the theme of BAD FOOD and is gross and gorgeous and packed full of incredible writing and illustrations vittlesmagazine.myshopify.com/products/vit...

I’m ASTONISHED that this article does not mention Poland’s horrific abortion laws as a MAJOR factor. Yesterday(!) was the 5th anniversary of the Constitutional Tribunal, staffed by Law & Justice judges, tightening abortion laws. And the current government has made close to zero progress on this.

Today’s newsletter is an investigation by Sasha Patel and Ben Jacob into the expansion of Gail’s, and how it relies on low-paid migrant workers (particularly from Gujarat) to sustain its rate of growth. Thank you to every Gail’s worker who talked to us. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/at-gails-w...

Polanski: I think there should be boycott of Israel Peston: A boycott of a democracy? How dare you Polanski: Well actually Israel just tortured a load of international civilians which is a war crime Peston: Wow would you look at the time

This is a fantastic piece of reporting.

You’ve really got to support this kind of reporting

Fascinating investigation into the global context behind the expansion of Gail’s and its terrible labour practices, very worthwhile read

www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/at-gails-w... (free to read)

Stocked up on buttermilk this morning so I can make Katie Smith 's breads again. big leek and potato soup w/ guinness bread energy this week www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/three-iris...

Some recent cooking notes and recipes dinnerdocument.substack.com/p/pears-and-...

Stunning! www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/a-state-of...

I love this piece by @elidavies.bsky.social in today's @vittles.bsky.social (free to read) featuring @nigelslater.bsky.social beloved lentils and a well-travelled pot www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/this-pot-i...

This story - see also @londoncentric.media - is really upsetting and just awful. I emailed Neil Coyle MP just now to urge him to intervene - so should YOU.

'Last Wednesday, I received a call from Faye Gomes, owner of exceptional Guyanese restaurant Kaieteur Kitchen. Almost in tears, she told me she, along with 3 other food traders had been locked out of their premises at Castle Square in Elephant and Castle' www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/theres-one...

this morning's first two candidates in the Chopin competition are just wow www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiBD...

I really miss Petroch Trelawney on radio 3 breakfast

Had this on all morning while I work and not only is it immensely soothing, but it's wonderful to see such talented people playing such beautiful music. It's on until 20th October too, what joy! www.youtube.com/live/sIgtpt5...

Today, the energy price cap set by Ofgem goes up yet again. ¼ of your bill was taken as profit by energy companies in 2024 — an average of £416 per household. Families are squeezed to pad the pockets of shareholders. 🧵 Here’s how the public has been turned into a cash machine.

This morning it is glamorous novelist Marlowe Granados's views on martinis for @vittles.bsky.social www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/serious-bu...

jus' chilling, listening to my partner read a Ludwig Bemelmans Madeline story to our daughter through the baby monitor

As the Nov/Dec iteration of my new course Writing Experimental Memoir got booked up in a couple of days, I’m going to repeat it in Feb! 3, 10, 17 Feb 2026 6.30-8.30 via Zoom £120 for course, £160 for course + half hour feedback on up to 3000 words 📧 jenniferannecalleja at gmail dot com

Unbelievable riches in this mag-within-a-mag Paris Special in @vittles.bsky.social that @jonathandnunn.bsky.social has edited www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/vittles-pa...

for @vittles.bsky.social, i wrote on the joys of lentils via two recipes for making sundal, which is a dish that dares to be categorised into one thing but is actually many things – think beyond dal! this is my urging to you

Marta Zboralska on a dish she loves but which many people hate – fruit soup – and recipes for cooking from the polski sklep on @vittles.bsky.social www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/cooking-fr...

If reports of the EHRC guidance are correct, it is not compatible with trans people's human rights. It would usher in a system of segregation, policed via threats of legal action by those with money to burn. Trans people, as well as people who are not trans, face harassment.

I am excited to be working with Gabriella Doob at Ecco books for the US publication of my next book Meal Time, alongside Željka Marošević at Jonathan Cape! <3

Great to see this piece in Vittles on how exploited Filipino domestic workers find solace in London's Earl's Court. This kind of insight shows how the UK's immigration rules impact every fibre of society, from who runs the kitchen to who sits at the table. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/every-fili...

i am not into football but was loving this podcast in the car yesterday hosted by Musa Okwonga, Juliet Jacques and Tom Williams after a rec by a friend podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

just back from being on holiday (extended thx to lost passport gah) and read yesterday's @vittles.bsky.social feature this morning - such a fantastic piece of reporting www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/every-fili...