So, is everyone just deleting the bots that follow? It's like picking out the tiniest of tediums.

This year started with planting an orchard, and writing what I have just written made me think back on this piece I published in early 2024 on the first full orchard I planted from scratch, including sowing a new meadow. I love that space, but still worry about it now and again.

For those of you who need this: Siouxsie & The Banshees singing French Christmas carols. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_2Q...

Cover of the day

Thrilled to be on @bestfoodblog.bsky.social's list of best food writing of the year! www.bestfoodblog.net/the-year-in-...

@niksharma.bsky.social Enjoyed your recent interview with Evan Kleiman talking about sichuan peppercorns!

Quinces were half-forgotten, and are now half-wizened. I think I can salvage them to be poached. I feel like there is a lesson here…

green fameuse apples, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1904

At Radio-Canada, talking about Acadian foods, rasping potatoes, and how the French language is not a monolith. As one does on a Sunday.

Loved seeing @johnbirdsall.bsky.social Michael Twitty, @marionnestle.bsky.social and @nancymatsumoto.bsky.social getting their flowers here. Civil Eats annual book list has become a part of my holiday book shopping. Buy good books. Buy good books from independent booksellers.

Few months back, the BBC Food Programme ran an episode on Polish groceries: the what, when, and who you will find. And now that two of said shops have opened in Halifax, I am now inundated with smoked fish and fruity herbal tisanes. www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

I have all 4 of my books in stock if anyone would like to purchase signed copies for Christmas gifts this year. A Dark History of Sugar (25% off) £15 Before Mrs Beeton £20 Knead to Know £12.99 The Philosophy of Puddings £10 +postage DM or email [email protected] Xxx

As someone who purchased this book, enjoyed it, and told many a food lover about it, I can tell you how much I enjoyed it. And would still buy it at full price.

fitzwater pears, painted by royal charles steadman, 1921

If you're stuck for ideas as to how to do something a bit different with this year's massive fruit harvests, I have a growing collection - 125 and counting - of historical and modern orchard and soft fruit recipes, wherein you might find a bit of inspiration: orchardnotes.com/fruit-recipes/

Woke up, another birthday. Considering I didn’t think I would make it this far, bring it on :)

A Jane Siberry morning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxn6...

A morning for making apple galettes, and listening to Lou Barlow. This album is 20 yrs old this year. Dang. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEYq...

Bumper crop of quince this year. Now, what to make …

This account is made for the love of quinces

blenheim pippin apples, painted by bertha heiges, 1901

Saw a video today of Laura Palmer in “Fire Walk With Me,” screaming in the Red Room. Haven’t felt that seen in a while.

Here it is, my last piece for @eater.bsky.social: my treatise on the last 20 years of food culture, and how food turned into fandom. I really hope you read it. www.eater.com/food-culture...

Had never heard of this variety until yesterday. And then BAM on my timeline. Confirmation bias is fascinating.

baby blush apples, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1901

holderbaum peaches, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1908

Hummus, once an “ethnic oddity," is now a potluck staple. Could lentils follow the same path? Writer Khalil Akhtar wonders if, in the current “Buy Canadian” era, the legume finally has a chance to stand beside maple syrup or rye whisky. thewalrus.ca/canada-grows-a-h...

Digging this new story in @thewalrus.ca by Khalil Akhtar about how Canada grows much of the world's lentils, yet we eat so few of them in this country. thewalrus.ca/canada-grows...

Been watching a former teacher of mine put up his record collection on Discogs. He has been collecting since the 60’s. It’s insane what is in there. Nico. Garage Rock. Rare folk albums. Psych. Blues. This is the teacher who noticed I was reading Lenny Bruce and approved.

There is a murder of crows outside my window and I think they have mistaken themselves for rooks, because it is most definitely a parliament out there.

early avocados, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1906

tane nashi persimmons, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1906

🍃 The fishes of North Carolina Raleigh, E. M. Uzzell & co., state printers and binders, 1907. [Source]

Quinces. Working on a story about them. I'd be curious to know about your relationship to them, if you're amenable to this. My father planted a quince tree for me as a gift twenty years ago, and I've been enjoying them ever since.

Community as ethics, as assistance, as ressource, and the sharing of those things. Loved this episode.

Super looking forward to being a part of this.

Great tip on opting out on AI-driven Google searches, thanks @ardathjean.bsky.social

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

hoke cherries, painted by william henry prestele, 1894

How many of you have read the Re/Search Publications books? I recently dug out my copy of "Angry Women," and the queer kid who came to be during the AIDS crisis needed this book so much. (1/3)

Access Copyright Foundation, an arm’s length foundation of Access Copyright, is excited to announce the Canadian creators, publishers and organizations who have been awarded Professional Development Grants for 2025. www.acfoundation.ca/2025/08/06/a...

italian stone pine, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1908

hey good morning, this is gonna be a thread attn: queer/trans writers/readers especially: just want to announce this all again, because I've added some more specifics to this page: www.sandyernestallen.com/announcements

Bumblebee sleeping in Queen Anne’s Lace. This is what I needed to see on this walk.

If your company’s AI can be used to create nude images of nonconsenting people then you should be subject to massive civil liabilities IMO.

As someone who was raised in a community with honesty boxes (and still uses them!) this piece by @kitchensisters.bsky.social speaks to me on so many levels. It’s not a rural thing: it’s about community, and what is valued by them. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

⭐️ SHORTLISTED ⭐️ Congratulations to Sarah Cox for Signs of Life making the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society shortlist for their Book Awards for BC Authors contest! 🌳 @sarahkcox.bsky.social

Love this feed, love these paintings, love this fruit.

champion plums, painted by harriet l. thompson, 1915

The double-edged sword of buying books and magazines for the love of them: - oooh, this looks interesting. I like having the option to read this later - later is 10-12 years. Case in point, this issue of Fool Magazine I bought in 2013. (At least I read all the Saveur issues in the background)