hello party people and homebodies, if you’re looking for a recipe for this christmas/nye/holiday season that is also a showstopper, consider my brilliant veg biryani that is time consuming but gratifying to make! this is also my last newsletter for 2025, become a paid subscriber, support my work! ty

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

i wrote a short story for chlorophyll mag called Parasite on loneliness, hunger, and monstrosity and i think you should all read it! chlorophyllmag.com/parasite-1

hi i'm doing xmas prints so i can make some money this december - it has been tough with writing, so here's some art from me! choose from four A4 prints (or get them all) of wobbly jelly, a solitary bag of sugar, a hand claw holding orange wine, and a lush swiss roll apoorvasripathi.com/home/art/

you can also support our work by donating to us 🫂 all deets on our website

issue 2 of chlorophyllmag.com is out tomorrow featuring a roster of brilliant writers. we’ll also be drip feeding the issue: essay/fiction/poem at regular intervals so you keep coming back! we’ll send snippets straight to your email as and when a new piece releases, so join our mailing list 💌

shelf care is back with recommendations on what to read, and with a surprise for paid subs <3 you can opt to receive a small print for christmas/new year (depending on mail times) for the small price of only a postage fee. there are two options to choose from!

ive stopped sharing my newsletter here because it didn't do much for me or the newsletter and yet i cannot resist. a bonus recipe for paid subscribers featuring cauliflower caponata, a one-pan no-stir recipe for cold weeknights shelfoffering.substack.com/p/one-pan-ca...

before i take some time off, a missive on why you should become a paid subscriber to my newsletter, shelf offering. one perk i forgot to add was that this automatically gets you into the workshops, talks, and discussions at FFF. plus a zine that's incoming EOY

if you’re in london, i urge you to go to the Wayne Thiebaud exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery from this Friday onwards. this is the first ever museum show of his work in the UK and ahead of that, i’m resharing my essay on his artwork and life via sugar and solitariness. read, enjoy, go!

5 years of independent newsletter writing and it's becoming more and more difficult to continue in a self-sustaining way unless i have some sort of following that will pay for any kind of shit i write. unfortunately i dont possess the personality of a cult leader. should i bemoan my lack of guile?

september roundup: links on some interesting articles that i’ve curated from the internet, a compilation of what i’ve cooked and consumed, a podcast rec (!!) and a picture of my cat. become a paid subscriber if you are nosey and wanna know what i’ve been upto. oh and solve the MONTHLY CROSSWORD

issue 2 cover reveal ‼️ we publish soon but in the meantime here’s our cover, a trompe l'oeil of posted notices and prints that plays with the flexibilities of language and the meanings (spoken and unspoken) you can find in words. give issue 1 a read while you wait 📰 chlorophyllmag.com

issue 2 cover reveal ‼️ we publish soon but in the meantime here’s our cover, a trompe l'oeil of posted notices and prints that plays with the flexibilities of language and the meanings (spoken and unspoken) you can find in words. give issue 1 a read while you wait 📰 chlorophyllmag.com

this week on the newsletter, a field log of a disappearing canadian chocolate. on factory labour, snack historians, bloggers who track old candy labels down, and dubious statements from international corporations! sarahduignan.substack.com/p/a-farewell...

join us on 29 september for a meet-and-greet with the FFF gang! come and tell us what you'd like to see from us? how would you like to participate? how can we support your work, too? ask us questions or just chat with us. register via link in the newsletter, and my paid subs go for free 💞

a bunch of us lovely talented people have formed Feminist Food Friends and there will be talks, discussions, workshops and more cool stuff to come! paid subscribers to shelf offering attend for free and for everyone else, an accessible ticket is available: luma.com/a4mibq9c illustrations by me 🥰

a bunch of us lovely talented people have formed Feminist Food Friends and there will be talks, discussions, workshops and more cool stuff to come! paid subscribers to shelf offering attend for free and for everyone else, an accessible ticket is available: luma.com/a4mibq9c illustrations by me 🥰

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

i wrote about memento mori, weird art – an apron made out of fish, blocks of frozen fruits, Victorian hair tokens – and the beauty in bizarre things. please read and repost! (yes it's on substack)

for paid subscribers, a recipe for those abundant late season juicy tomatoes - turn them into curry!

i wrote about memento mori, weird art – an apron made out of fish, blocks of frozen fruits, Victorian hair tokens – and the beauty in bizarre things. please read and repost! (yes it's on substack)

something cheerful to start Tuesday morning with: a shelf offering on death in art but also transitory, bizarre, beautiful things via memento mori and fish aprons

my VERY tamil dad thinks i'm eating spaghetti for breakfast because i now live in europe

anyway, today is chathurthi for those who celebrate. for those who don't and are thinking of dumplings, consider this essay on them by me

saw something that made me stop in my tracks: white man posting about how South Indian food is NOW part of life in north India. the evidence is that he has personally visited two north indian cities and ate dosai. i ask myself, where will we be without white men & feel honoured by their presence

monthly roundup on what i’ve been reading/eating/cooking/watching is here, along with the monthly crossword – solve it, share it etc etc

Earlier this summer I could not stop talking about how big of a deal it was that my mom was coming to visit me in NYC, now I finally wrote up what we did and how it went for my personal newsletter. What do you do with a mom that's cooler than you? ultracold.substack.com/p/mediadiet-...

for shelf offering paid subscribers, a rasam-dal hybrid that does double duty, as both a thin and watery rasam, as well as a gloopy and thick dal. Either way, eat it with rice or some toast – or puree the whole thing into soup and call it dinner. you wont find recipes like this elsewhere but here 🫡

another shelf offering missive on hands, on chasing imperfections, and the specificity they demand shelfoffering.substack.com/p/chasing-im...

another shelf offering missive on hands, on chasing imperfections, and the specificity they demand shelfoffering.substack.com/p/chasing-im...

i wrote about rejecting despair in the face of changing narratives re Gaza and general defeatism shelfoffering.substack.com/p/rejecting-...

hey, i've been selling my art so i can make more money to live beyond paycheck to paycheck and because i'm pretty fucking talented. so if you like it, please buy my art? currently selling these beautiful curly cabbage prints on my website: apoorvasripathi.com/home/art/ reposting this also helps!

for paid subscribers, a new recipe for the heatwave: spiced lemonade aka shikanji – lemon & jaggery come to form the sweet and sour base and is then topped with herbs and spices such as chaat masala, ground cumin, and black pepper. make it and drink it with lots of ice; spike it with rum or whiskey

ATTN paid subscribers: starting this month, i'll be constructing crosswords every month for you <3 (alongside a roundup of what i'm reading, eating, and working on) go and solve it - it's a 5x5 mini grid shelfoffering.substack.com/p/shelf-care-9

ATTN paid subscribers: starting this month, i'll be constructing crosswords every month for you <3 (alongside a roundup of what i'm reading, eating, and working on) go and solve it - it's a 5x5 mini grid shelfoffering.substack.com/p/shelf-care-9

my recipe series for Something Curated continues: mango rasam, for a combination of flavours that sing of pleasure and joy! It is great mixed with hot rice but equally refreshing as a standalone drink.

do call it a comeback! for my first essay post the forced newsletter break, a missive on motherhood connected by Burnt Sugar and Mary Cassatt via memory and consumption 💌 also prev paid subscribers, come back and give me another chance!

hey if you have that poem/fiction/non fiction pitch languishing in your drafts and it connects to chlorophyll’s issue 2 theme, then send it our way! we’re unable to pay currently and we’re working to reverse that but we will read your work with care <3 chlorophyllmag.com/about-us

please send us your stories, poetry, and essay pitches!! deadline is 31 May!!!

please send us your stories, poetry, and essay pitches!! deadline is 31 May!!!

🚨 for chlorophyll, i designed and constructed a crossword on the theme of language (some anomalies of course), featuring 33 words. it took me two days to think and design by hand and now i've hosted it on an open-source site where you can solve it and tell me how much you like it!

we’re seeking your brilliant thoughts & ideas again, for issue 2 of chlorophyll on the theme ‘language’. send us your essays, fiction, poetry before Monday, 31 May to [email protected]. check our website for guidelines and other queries 🌱 chlorophyllmag.com

i need more people to take a look at what myself and Anne Wallentine have created - an online lit magazine publishing stunning prose & poetry! read: chlorophyllmag.com

i need more people to take a look at what myself and Anne Wallentine have created - an online lit magazine publishing stunning prose & poetry! read: chlorophyllmag.com

happy new moon, happy spring — issue 1 is out now featuring these amazing writers! read: chlorophyllmag.com

i think we need to LOOK BACK and not forward with newsletters and starting next week i will handwrite my essays and deliver them through couriers or stand on the street and hand them out if anyone’s interested hit me up i will walk throughout south london and do this

hey hi hello – myself and the talented Anne Wallentine are launching an online lit magazine. here is our (mock) cover for the inaugural issue set to release March 29 featuring prose + poetry by an exceptional group of writers. please support us! chlorophyllmag.com www.instagram.com/chlorophyllmag

"The surest way to see the gospel of spring spread throughout London is to see clutches of narcissi, buttercup yellow and gently swaying in the wind, sprout in patches that have otherwise gone unnoticed" for this week's paid subscriber newsletter, i wrote about walking as thinking and work.