london is one of the greatest food cities in the world. for the last few years, i’ve been writing this for @vittles.bsky.social: a guide to everything interesting about eating in london right now, from fine dining to diaspora restaurants. i hope you enjoy it! www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-vittle...

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...

Wrote for Vittles about Irish cuisine in London - our ambivalent relationship to our own food, the Yellow Bittern, the Devonshire, posh chicken fillet rolls, deep-fried rabbit, the Blaskets diet and being a country of Europe instead of Britain's mirror. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/trial-and-...

I'd really like you to read this landmark investigation for @vittles.bsky.social on curry awards. "I haven't been so entertained editing something in a long time" @jonathandnunn.bsky.social said www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-curry-...

Great essay by Siobhan Phillips weighing up the contradictions and pleasures of restaurant cookbooks on @vittles.bsky.social today www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-parado...

Excellent piece in @vittles.bsky.social about the civil war in #Manipur and the Kuki-Zo people's food open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...

“This is our Indigenous food". This @vittles.bsky.social piece by Makepeace Sitlhou on preserving Kuki-Zo food in the midst of conflict in Manipur is excellent. (The cuisine also overlaps with what we Burmese eat, which I guess is unsurprising!) open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...

From this scorcher by Hester van Hensbergen www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/vittles-re...

one under-discussed james bond scene is when roger moore cooks a lady a quiche. I think very regularly about which bonds cook what - fundamentally i feel strongly than brosnan's bond's go-to would be coq au vin. Beyond that very hard to say. Dalton Bond probably some kind of hash

ridiculously delicious ! ! this week's @vittles.bsky.social recipe by Quality Wines maestro Nick Bramham www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/nick-bramh...

This is just fantastic!!! A @vittles.bsky.social magazine!!! I've thought of Vittles as a magazine for the last couple of years and suspected this would happen - it had to happen! open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...

Very proud to open the first @vittles.bsky.social magazine with a ‘barnstormer of an investigation’ on curry awards

we’ve been working on this for the last six months - it’s a dream project and dream line up. thanks so much for the last five years of support that has made it possible!

We’re moving into print! Vittles Issue 1, our first ever print magazine, is now available to pre-order. vittlesmagazine.myshopify.com/products/vit...

"What is the word for recipe, in any case, in Efik or Ibibio languages? To say it in English is to identify yourself as a stranger, and to immediately feel the breeze preceding a slamming door.." Loved this brilliant piece by Yemisi Aribisala @vittles.bsky.social.👇 open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...

Rosa Lyster on the cookbook by notorious novelist Caroline Blackwood for @vittles.bsky.social is razor sharp and funny as hell! www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/machiavell...

A fascinating, thoughtful look at influentual cookbooks that changed food culture in Britain, by Ruby Tandoh for @vittles.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...

i'm just an ex-cookbook blogger, phenomenally jealous of the vittles cookbook sunday supplement

A fat and full Sunday supplement from @vittles.bsky.social. I have contributed a piece about a cookbook I would like to see translated.

Excellent selection of pieces on cookbooks! Really love the way Ruby Tandoh thinks and writes about the influential books she has selected. And the piece on books that aren't available in English or haven't been published in the UK is fascinating too.

And finally, Ruby Tandoh has compiled Vittles’s own list of 15 cookbooks from the last 75 years that changed British food culture - for better or worse. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/15-cookboo...

We asked ten of our favourite writers and cookbook experts, from Anissa Helou to Rachel Roddy, to recommend a cookbook that has not been translated or published in the UK. The result is this odd, singular and brilliant compilation of beloved cookbooks! www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/cookbooks-...

Rosa Lyster reappraises Caroline Blackwood’s acidic cookbook Darling, You Shouldn’t Have Gone to So Much Trouble and is a welcome antidote to the current trend for the saccharine in cookbook publishing. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/machiavell...

“In Calabar, food is high calling plus seduction plus enterprise plus social mobility” Yemisi Aríbisálà writes about recipe gatekeeping, the reluctant tradition of Nigerian cookbooks, and the complicated reasons why there are so few of them. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/there-is-n...

Jonathan Meades reviews one of the most conceptually interesting cookbooks of the last few years - Alex Jackson’s Frontières - and interrogates the book’s relationship to the oeuvre of Elizabeth David and Jane Grigson www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/reinventin...

this one is our gift to cookbook nerds!

Our first Sunday supplement is out today and it’s all about cookbooks - why we love them, why sometimes we don’t, and the feeling there may be too many. Five essays and guides, featuring Jonathan Meades, Yemisi Aribisala, Rosa Lyster, Ruby Tandoh & more! www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/too-many-c...

some genius cookie recipes on @vittles.bsky.social this week! www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/vegan-cook...

'I became reluctant to leave the house in case I saw a wet leaf on the ground that made me think of lettuce.' Olivia Sudjic in @vittles.bsky.social today on the inability to eat during pregnancy. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/ice-ice-ba...

ok this is a prize i would have *dreamed* of a few years ago - money! library time! editorial support! British Library X Vittles Writing Fellowship !!!!!!! apply! @vittles.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social fs12.formsite.com/obk2AX/fello...

Was delighted to do this interview with the maverick Jonathan Nunn in his equally maverick @vittles.bsky.social about my life and work as the restaurant critic for the Scotland edition of @thetimes.com

“‘I will not leave even if they bring a bulldozer and bury us.’ she added. ‘Let it be our tomb.’” Today’s essay by Manal Shqair is about nomadic-pastoralist communities in Masafer Yatta in Palestine, and Israel’s destruction of their food sovereignty. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/starving-p...

at the end of last year i had a small break from restaurants for my health and sanity, but am back this week in @vittles.bsky.social writing about six london restaurants i really liked (and one that i really hated) www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/six-of-nunn

For @vittles.bsky.social i wrote about my two most formative male influences: my father and Rick Stein www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/rick-stein...

Started my Monday as I do most days: reading in bed with black coffee. Just devoured this essay, absolutely brilliant.

A really beautiful essay by novelist Jo Hamya on eating in bed this morning on @vittles.bsky.social – and Sing's illustration is gorgeous too www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/eating-in-...

I *love* this week’s column and recipes from Melek for @vittles.bsky.social www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/melek-erda...

Our latest newsletter by Momtaza Mehri is a cultural and personal history of local beverages — Shani, Hamoud Boualem, Watani camel milk, Raqay, Vimto, Lucozade, Tizer, Supermalt — and their grounding familiarity in a world of Diet Coke. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/chugging-a...

Three funny, insightful and delicious reviews from @vittles.bsky.social mentee Emefa Ansah 🔥 www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/vittles-re...

here’s my annual round up of everything good and bad in london food (and food media) this year, which is mainly a catalogue of charlatanry from restaurants, critics, influencers, tod, topjaw etc that have delighted and infuriated me www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-best-a...

A most gorgeous moving and funny essay by thee Brian Dillon on @vittles.bsky.social today www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/you-cant-g...

When @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social asked me to write about Christmas with Delia for @vittles.bsky.social, thoughts also turned inevitably to Christmases past. What does Delia provide, alongside all the failsafe recipes? Absolution from Christmas melancholy! www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/you-cant-g...

An exciting fruit pie 🥧 on @vittles.bsky.social recipes this week! www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/chloe-rose...

I have absolutely loved all the reactions to this: from Poles in Britain, Poles in Poland, Poles in other parts of the world, first-generation migrants, second-generation migrants, British fans of polski skleps, East Europeans who use them...

Excited to have this piece into the world for my bsky debut ✨

Loved this.

Beautiful history of the Polski sklep in @vittles.bsky.social today by @kasiatee.bsky.social and Marta Zboralska www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/a-cultural...

Catch me and Kasia Tomasiewicz in @vittles.bsky.social today: A cultural history of the polski sklep www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/a-cultural...

I RECOMMEND THIS TO YOU ALL www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/a-cultural...