Jonathan Nunn
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london is one of the greatest food cities in the world. for the last few years, iâve 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...
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The Vittles 99: The Full List
By popular demand.
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-vittles-99-the-full-list
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Vittles Magazine
2 months ago
Todayâs newsletter is an investigation by Sasha Patel and Ben Jacob into the expansion of Gailâs, and how it relies on low-paid migrant workers (particularly from Gujarat) to sustain its rate of growth. Thank you to every Gailâs worker who talked to us.
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'We're just a bakery': Does Gail's rely on low-paid migrant workers to further its expansionist vision?
The economics and migration behind the Gailâs expansion. Words by Sasha Patel and Ben Jacob. Illustration by Kruttika Susarla.
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/at-gails-what-is-the-human-cost-behind
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Karl McDonald
7 months ago
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-...
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Trial and Ăire
On the new Irish cuisine in London. By Karl McDonald. Photography by Michaël Protin.
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/trial-and-eire?utm_source=substack&publication_id=34196&post_id=164224545&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=4yq7w&triedRedirect=true
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David Desi Pubs Dason
8 months ago
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-...
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The Curry Awards OmertĂ
How deciding who serves the best curry became big business, by David Jesudason.
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-curry-awards-omerta
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RMJ
8 months ago
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...
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The Paradox of the Restaurant Cookbook
Siobhan Phillips on the contradictions of restaurant cookbooks. Illustration by Antoine Cossé.
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-paradox-of-the-restaurant-cookbook?utm_source=post-banner&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
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Naomi Duguid
9 months ago
Excellent piece in
@vittles.bsky.social
about the civil war in
#Manipur
and the Kuki-Zo people's food
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"This is our Indigenous food"
Makepeace Sitlhou investigates the meanings food takes amid an ongoing civil war. Photographs by George AK Neihsial.
https://open.substack.com/pub/vittles/p/this-is-our-indigenous-food?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=366ph
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MiMi Aye
9 months ago
âThis is our Indigenous food". This
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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!)
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"This is our Indigenous food"
Makepeace Sitlhou investigates the meanings food takes amid an ongoing civil war. Photographs by George AK Neihsial.
https://open.substack.com/pub/vittles/p/this-is-our-indigenous-food?r=2gnqh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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9 months ago
From this scorcher by Hester van Hensbergen
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Vittles Reviews: Long Live The Pasta Boyfriend!
"Itâs rare for things to be this bad this soon." Hester van Hensbergen on Jordon Ezra Kingâs residency at Isla. Photographs by MichaĂ«l Protin.
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/vittles-reviews-long-live-the-pasta?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAabpXwLZnU8-L8tJxQvbNxc6_iIGlmLsSqapbtmxFNcFuxDtWxGiDXVpRcw_aem_amd4w-bgq_xeOgxyBNZLwQ
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Friends of Pudding
9 months ago
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
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RMJ
9 months ago
ridiculously delicious ! ! this week's
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recipe by Quality Wines maestro Nick Bramham
www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/nick-bramh...
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Nick Bramhamâs Chicken Thighs with Molho LeitĂŁo and Coriander Rice
This rich, peppery, rendered pork fat sauce perfectly complements chicken and is ready in under forty-five minutes. Words and images by Nick Bramham.
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/nick-bramhams-chicken-thighs-with
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Nicola Miller
10 months ago
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/...
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Vittles Magazine: Issue 1
Our first print magazine, now available to pre-order.
https://open.substack.com/pub/vittles/p/vittles-magazine-issue-1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1n8kq
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David Desi Pubs Dason
10 months ago
Very proud to open the first
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magazine with a âbarnstormer of an investigationâ on curry awards
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weâve been working on this for the last six months - itâs a dream project and dream line up. thanks so much for the last five years of support that has made it possible!
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10 months ago
Weâre moving into print! Vittles Issue 1, our first ever print magazine, is now available to pre-order.
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Aaron Vallance
10 months ago
"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
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'There is no recipe, take it or leave it'
YemisĂ ArĂbisĂĄlĂ on why there are so few Nigerian cookbooks. Illustration by Hannah Ekuwa Buckman.
https://open.substack.com/pub/vittles/p/there-is-no-recipe-take-it-or-leave?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4qtzv
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RMJ
10 months ago
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...
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ââMachiavelli in the Kitchen
Rosa Lyster on cooking to win, inspired by 'glamorously unpredictable witch', Caroline Blackwood. Illustration by Jess Nash.
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/machiavelli-in-the-kitchen
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Jenny Linford
10 months ago
A fascinating, thoughtful look at influentual cookbooks that changed food culture in Britain, by Ruby Tandoh for
@vittles.bsky.social
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15 Cookbooks That Changed Everything
The most influential British cookbooks of the last 75 years; for better, or for worse, by Ruby Tandoh.
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Paula Forbes
10 months ago
i'm just an ex-cookbook blogger, phenomenally jealous of the vittles cookbook sunday supplement
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Too Many Cookbooks: A Vittles Sunday Supplement
By Jonathan Meades, YemisĂ ArĂbisĂĄlĂ , Rosa Lyster, Ruby Tandoh, Guan Chua, Christie Dietz, Anissa Helou, Ibrahim Hirsi, Saba Imtiaz, TW Lim, Lutivini Majanja, Meher Mirza, Marie Mitchell, Rachel Roddy
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/too-many-cookbooks-a-vittles-sunday
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Rachel Roddy
10 months ago
A fat and full Sunday supplement from
@vittles.bsky.social
. I have contributed a piece about a cookbook I would like to see translated.
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Kavey The Snow(o)man
10 months ago
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.
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10 months ago
And finally, Ruby Tandoh has compiled Vittlesâs 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...
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15 Cookbooks That Changed Everything
The most influential British cookbooks of the last 75 years; for better, or for worse, by Ruby Tandoh.
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/15-cookbooks-that-changed-everything
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10 months ago
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-...
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Cookbooks in Translation
A compilation of great non-English cookbooks, by Guan Chua, Christie Dietz, Anissa Helou, Ibrahim Hirsi, Saba Imtiaz, TW Lim, Lutivini Majanja, Meher Mirza, Marie Mitchell & Rachel Roddy.
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/cookbooks-in-translation
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Vittles Magazine
10 months ago
Rosa Lyster reappraises Caroline Blackwoodâs acidic cookbook Darling, You Shouldnât 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...
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ââMachiavelli in the Kitchen
Rosa Lyster on cooking to win, inspired by 'glamorously unpredictable witch', Caroline Blackwood. Illustration by Jess Nash.
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/machiavelli-in-the-kitchen
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Vittles Magazine
10 months ago
âIn Calabar, food is high calling plus seduction plus enterprise plus social mobilityâ Yemisi ArĂbisĂĄlĂ 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...
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'There is no recipe, take it or leave it'
YemisĂ ArĂbisĂĄlĂ on why there are so few Nigerian cookbooks. Illustration by Hannah Ekuwa Buckman.
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/there-is-no-recipe-take-it-or-leave
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Vittles Magazine
10 months ago
Jonathan Meades reviews one of the most conceptually interesting cookbooks of the last few years - Alex Jacksonâs FrontiĂšres - and interrogates the bookâs relationship to the oeuvre of Elizabeth David and Jane Grigson
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Reinventing the Hexagon
Jonathan Meades on Alex Jacksonâs FrontiĂšres and the French food resurgence. Illustration by Alex Christian.
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/reinventing-the-hexagon
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this one is our gift to cookbook nerds!
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10 months ago
Our first Sunday supplement is out today and itâs all about cookbooks - why we love them, why sometimes we donât, 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...
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Too Many Cookbooks: A Vittles Sunday Supplement
By Jonathan Meades, YemisĂ ArĂbisĂĄlĂ , Rosa Lyster, Ruby Tandoh, Guan Chua, Christie Dietz, Anissa Helou, Ibrahim Hirsi, Saba Imtiaz, TW Lim, Lutivini Majanja, Meher Mirza, Marie Mitchell, Rachel Roddy
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/too-many-cookbooks-a-vittles-sunday
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RMJ
10 months ago
some genius cookie recipes on
@vittles.bsky.social
this week!
www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/vegan-cook...
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Vegan Cookies Four Ways
One nut butter dough, four distinct cookies: chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin pecan, ginger and black pepper, and (sort of) pignoli. Words and images by Kate Ray.
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/vegan-cookies-four-ways
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10 months ago
'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.
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Ice Ice Baby
Olivia Sudjic on the inability to eat during pregnancy â and one dish that brought her joy when she became able to eat again. Words and photo by Olivia Sudjic.
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/ice-ice-baby?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=bfa&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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RMJ
10 months ago
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
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Chitra Ramaswamy
10 months ago
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
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11 months ago
ââI will not leave even if they bring a bulldozer and bury us.â she added. âLet it be our tomb.ââ Todayâs essay by Manal Shqair is about nomadic-pastoralist communities in Masafer Yatta in Palestine, and Israelâs destruction of their food sovereignty.
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Starving Palestine
Israeli colonialism and the struggle for food sovereignty in Masafer Yatta. Words by Manal Shqair. Photographs by Ali Awad.
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/starving-palestine
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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
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Six of Nunn
Six restaurants to go to and one to avoid, by Jonathan Nunn
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/six-of-nunn
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John Merrick
11 months ago
For
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i wrote about my two most formative male influences: my father and Rick Stein
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Rick Steinâs Oddity
John Merrick on the strange allure and bumbling anti-charisma of Rick Stein. Illustration by Alex Brenchley.
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Matthew Curtis
11 months ago
Started my Monday as I do most days: reading in bed with black coffee. Just devoured this essay, absolutely brilliant.
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11 months ago
A really beautiful essay by novelist Jo Hamya on eating in bed this morning on
@vittles.bsky.social
â and Sing's illustration is gorgeous too
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Eating in bed, a lyric essay
Jo Hamya on meals in bed. Illustration by Sing Yun Lee.
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12 months ago
I *love* this weekâs column and recipes from Melek for
@vittles.bsky.social
www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/melek-erda...
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Melek Erdal's İçli köfte two ways (one disrespectful)
One dough is used to make two recipes: a traditional stuffed köfte and a 'disrespectful' easier version. Words and images by Melek Erdal.
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/melek-erdals-icli-kofte-two-ways?utm_source=post-banner&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
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Vittles Magazine
12 months ago
Our latest newsletter by Momtaza Mehri is a cultural and personal history of local beverages â Shani, Hamoud Boualem, Watani camel milk, Raqay, Vimto, Lucozade, Tizer, Supermalt â and their grounding familiarity in a world of Diet Coke.
www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/chugging-a...
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Chugging Away
Momtaza Mehri writes about beverages as affective transportation through three drinks.
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/chugging-away
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12 months ago
Three funny, insightful and delicious reviews from
@vittles.bsky.social
mentee Emefa Ansah đ„
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Vittles Restaurants: Threeâs a Crowd
A letter from Peckham, by Emefa Ansah
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hereâs 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
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The best and worst of London food (media) in 2024
2024: The Year in Charlatanry. Vittles Review of the Year, part 2.
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-best-and-worst-of-london-food-27e
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A most gorgeous moving and funny essay by thee Brian Dillon on
@vittles.bsky.social
today
www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/you-cant-g...
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You Canât Go Wrong With Delia
Brian Dillon on Christmas with Delia. Illustration by Seb Tanti BurlĂČ.
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/you-cant-go-wrong-with-delia?utm_source=post-banner&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
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Brian Dillon
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When
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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!
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You Canât Go Wrong With Delia
Brian Dillon on Christmas with Delia. Illustration by Seb Tanti BurlĂČ.
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/you-cant-go-wrong-with-delia
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RMJ
about 1 year ago
An exciting fruit pie đ„§ on
@vittles.bsky.social
recipes this week!
www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/chloe-rose...
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Chloe-Rose Crabtree's Blackberry and Kiwi Lattice Pie
In this final instalment of her series on American pie, Chloe-Rose Crabtree shares a fruit pie to bring brightness in the depths of winter. Words by Chloe-Rose Crabtree. Photos by Georgia Rudd.
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/chloe-rose-crabtrees-blackberry-and?utm_source=post-banner&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true
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Marta Zboralska
about 1 year ago
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...
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Kasia Tee
about 1 year ago
Excited to have this piece into the world for my bsky debut âš
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Caroline Hennessy
about 1 year ago
Loved this.
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Dan Hancox
about 1 year ago
Beautiful history of the Polski sklep in
@vittles.bsky.social
today by
@kasiatee.bsky.social
and Marta Zboralska
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Marta Zboralska
about 1 year ago
Catch me and Kasia Tomasiewicz in
@vittles.bsky.social
today: A cultural history of the polski sklep
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A cultural history of the polski sklep
How the polski sklep changed British food culture, by Kasia Tomasiewicz and Marta Zboralska
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/a-cultural-history-of-the-polski
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The Ewa Outside Is Frightful
about 1 year ago
I RECOMMEND THIS TO YOU ALL
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A cultural history of the polski sklep
How the polski sklep changed British food culture, by Kasia Tomasiewicz and Marta Zboralska
https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/a-cultural-history-of-the-polski
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