In the age of the independent print magazine, food and drink publications are on the rise, and we love to be in such delicious company.

Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival 2025 is go! We opened the festival on Sunday night with event 1 of 41: An Evening With Harriet Walter a fundraiser for Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds. And there are 40 more events to come - a few of which still have tickets available: www.burylitfest.co.uk

Ursula Ferrigno's new cookbook shares the treasures of the Northern Italian region, from sweet-tart radicchio to tender butter cookies.

Gorgeous grilled seafood platter at the Mistley Thorn last night

"The roots of Palestinian food are regularly disrespected and wilfully ignored by the UK culinary industry, which Fadi is accustomed to, and attributes to laziness of the general restaurant-goer." shado-mag.com/articles/opi...

I wouldn't mind if I were the last white person in this country. The only race that matters is the human one.

Mersea rocks at the Mistley Thorn

Reminds me of the woman who complained *I* ruined her child's birthday because my chocolate cake recipe "sucked" when she made it gf, df, egg-free, subbed carob for chocolate, & used a different pan size (of an atypical material).

Those of us with a bad thrifted-cookbook habit are doing the Happy Dance of Total Vindication.

New ep is up! We are joined by Shane Mitchell, author of The Crop Cycle, a @bittersouth.bsky.social essay collection that profiles 11 iconic Southern crops. Shane chronicles the history of their cultivation and poignantly writes of those who grow and devour them. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Just stop using them!

I remember reading this in Best American Food Writing. It's a beautiful piece.

Palestinian film-makers on their favorite Palestinian movies: ‘I felt like I was watching my own story’

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold. John Betjeman

Also known as the National Convention for DLs

Brilliantly enterprising. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Here is a thing that I hear from *almost every British Jew I know* but have barely heard expressed in any of these programmes: No single person has done more to make Jewish people globally less safe than Benjamin Netanyahu.

daughter just told me every Friday her class has a “burial” for the pencils too small to be sharpened anymore 😭😭 one of her classroom jobs is to give the eulogy 😭😭 THERE IS A SMALL COFFIN 😭😭😭😭

I'm interviewing Andrew Turvil live tomorrow at 6pm about his excellent new book Blood Sweat and Asparagus Spears that's all about the 1990s restaurant scene. Details of how to join the event and take part in the Q&A are here open.substack.com/pub/andrewly... please like and share if you can

'Puff Pastry Dumplings' is a lovely string of words.

Fairyland, a movie based on the book by the wonderful Alysia Abbott, opens in theaters on 10/10. Had a satisfying cathartic cry (as did many in the theatre) as @alexanderchee.bsky.social moderated the discussion for the screening. Go see this film. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/m...

A reminder that next Saturday (11th Oct) I will be chairing a conversation between @oliahercules.bsky.social and @felicityspector.bsky.social at @burylitfest.bsky.social. Tickets are available here: www.burylitfest.co.uk/boxoffice

Let's do them all for corruption then.

Yesterday I bought a deviled egg platter in the shape of a giant Aylesbury duck with a rainbow emerging from its butt. Subtle. Classy.

Her what?!?

It's going to be a weekend of wild winds and coldness in the UK so I have just the thing for you. My celeriac, apple, onion and potato mash is no looker but it's utterly comforting and delicious. www.suffolknews.co.uk/whats-on/cou...

Temu Max Headroom having another normal one i see

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So perfect.

You know classic French onion soup made with ribbons of juicy caramelized onions? Well it's REALLY GOOD if you use a mandoline to slice celeriac and cook it alongside the alliums.

The last time I was a museum curator, its president ordered me to throw out much of its historic collections. Told her I’d email her meeting notes. “NO NOTES,” she snapped. Now, if I had done that crime and word got out, I’d never work in museums again. Protecting the clxns? Honorable way to go.

I've just seen the news about Patricia Routledge. Decades ago she was incredibly kind to a drama- loving patient of mine, sending them free tickets to an event. May her spirit soar.

Another great Friday Bread Basket from @wordloaf.org newsletter.wordloaf.org/friday-bread...

Chamomile Patisserie in Thurston. Gorgeous!

Laters, everyone, 433 delicious pages to savour... It's GORGEOUS @koshersoul.bsky.social

The area of Manchester where the horrific antisemitic attack took place is one of the few in the UK where Jewish & Muslim ppl both live in large numbers. We must learn from & follow how these communities support each other, as we condemn the attack & send love & solidarity to Jews across the UK

What a £5 coffee (or a £100 Pizza Express) tells us about a changing Britain | Gaby Hinsliff

My best friend is at an awards ceremony and Nigel Farage is on the table next to her

This is why social media is good (for all about it that is bad).

BREAKING: Striking workers are currently storming Tesla showrooms in Paris, demanding higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy. (🎥 Luc Auffret)

Even where there are deep divides between Jewish and Muslim communities, our safety in the UK is intertwined. Pitting us against each other only endangers us both.

An indy bookseller speaks! Bookshop.org is AMAZING and frankly, without it, a lot of us would have struggled even more during lockdown. WAYYY better than Hive (if you’re picking the book up from a bookshop, why aren’t you ordering it directly from them in the first place??)

Today, Oct.2nd, is the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents.

READ: With at least half a million people still left in Gaza City, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz issued a "final warning" for residents to evacuate, saying those who remain will soon be regarded as “terrorists or terrorist supporters.” mondoweiss.net/2025/10/isra...

The sad thing is, we’ve been here before, as this old article highlights. “Current bigotry against asylum seekers, it’s chilling to discover, closely mimics prewar anti-Jewish sentiments, and in both instances has been legitimised by British immigration policy.” www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/jun/...

🚨 UPDATE 🚨 The news is in, and it’s good 🚫 GWD, the anti-trans lobby group led by four disgraced expelled members, has been denied a platform at Autumn Conference They tried to strong-arm the party with legal threats in order to spread their transphobic agenda But the party stood firm 1.

Last night's 10 pm BBC News had a report on Iranian migrants in France who wanted to come to the UK because they saw this country as a welcoming place. The family interviewed, whose daughter had died on an attempt to cross the Channel, were just lovely.

It's so rare that you actually see someone say "I need time to grieve".

Intriguing and moving. deadline.com/2025/09/tere...

"The old folk wisdom that the shape of a persimmon embryo corresponds to the coming weather has swirled around the Ozarks and Appalachia for generations, with no clear origin story." gardenandgun.com/articles/usi...