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John Clements

@clembo87.bsky.social

Chef and Food Writer

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Photograph of the cover of Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook

Photograph of the cover of Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook

And I’m also keen to alert you to this new edition of Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook

06.11.2025 17:44 — 👍 180    🔁 18    💬 7    📌 3

On 28th November I will be in conversation with @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social at Manningtree Arts

31.10.2025 03:41 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Beginnings Pollo a la Brasa/Peruvian Chicken

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Wild foraged Dorset porcini pasta at the restaurant today.

15.09.2025 13:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Seduction The Seaside Boarding House, Burton Bradstock. July 2024

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02.09.2025 08:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Likewise. Sending lots of “finish-that-book” vibes.

30.08.2025 14:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Our Story | Bridport Market | Pizzeria & Café | Italian Wholesale Supplier — Mercato Italiano Ilaria’s relationships with the Italian producers and her skill of finding the highest quality produce led her to expand the Mercato Italiano business, supplying UK restaurants and cafes as a wholesal...

Great night at the fabulous Marshwood Manor, Dorset last night with Rachel Roddy and Ilaria Padovani as they shared some regional Italian cuisine musings. The food and company was great too!

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24.08.2025 14:15 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Happy Places Mercato Italiano. Bridport, Dorset. May, 2025.

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05.08.2025 13:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why Do I Write? A Letter to Myself

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05.08.2025 09:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"How do you get away with dropping your trousers, talking about your cock, then blaming neurodiversity? It’s sickening."

@maitlis.bsky.social and @jonsopel1.bsky.social react to the Gregg Wallace backlash after he blamed his autism for the 50+ allegations of inappropriate workplace behaviour.

10.07.2025 15:09 — 👍 238    🔁 47    💬 20    📌 7
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Old Friends K. Yuen. Bridport. June 2025

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BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, Snowbirds and Coyotes by KM Elkes After the death of her husband, Betty drives south from Ohio to the Arizona desert.

Very happy indeed to have a short story commissioned by the BBC! Broadcast 3.45pm July 11th, on Radio 4 and Sunday 13th at 11.45pm

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28.06.2025 18:14 — 👍 53    🔁 10    💬 9    📌 4
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Fridge Health I left home at 17.

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05.06.2025 09:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Playing in the Shadows of Giants The City of Oxford Guild of Chefs Annual Competition. April 16, 2025

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01.05.2025 08:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sun's out, April edition is OUT! Go get yours at one of these stockists: westdorsetmag.co.uk/stockists or read online. Oh, and did we mention our NATIONAL AWARD? #newspaperawards #hyperlocal

09.04.2025 09:13 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Dongnae. Bristol. March 2025. Second Chances

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02.04.2025 11:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Jimmy Hill and Sweetcorn. Kitchen Musings and Conversations - Belonging.

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06.03.2025 08:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hooray! We are in the finals of the 2025 Newspaper Awards! Second time lucky?

17.02.2025 13:07 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The Delicious Taste of Regret Doner Kebab Musings. February 2025

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09.02.2025 10:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

About as succinct as it gets

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Get Yer Stock On 2025 New Year

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31.12.2024 10:33 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

One of Suzie’s best

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When My Partner Cancelled Christmas (Warning - Do not read this if you are 100% in the Christmas spirit).

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11.12.2024 09:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Burgers and Vivaldi Hub Box, Exeter, November, 2024

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05.12.2024 15:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Grace Dent’s joyeux Noël: ‘It’s time I made some new Christmas memories – in small, French steps’ No amount of joining the Christmas supermarket scrum will recreate the sight of my mam’s hands on the trolley

I wrote this today about Christmas food being full of ghosts. Is it ok with Aunt Beat (dead, 1991) to not buy Colmans Bread Sauce? Will my dead father want this Dairy Milk? Is it ok to give myself a break? OF COURSE NOT. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

29.11.2024 13:07 — 👍 76    🔁 13    💬 16    📌 7
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Universal, yet unique – using childhood as inspiration “Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.” ―Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose.

Childhood is a both a shared experience everyone understands, and yet our own childhoods are completely unique. My latest Substack post explores how this can be a rich source of inspiration for writers.

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24.11.2024 15:55 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Good Night and Thanks for the Fish Noah’s, Bristol, October 2024

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27.11.2024 13:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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