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writer. SMALL FIRES out now (Pushkin Press) winner 2024 Nach Waxman Prize MEAL TIME in progress (Jonathan Cape & Ecco ) edits @ vittles and writes dinner document substack Coastal Essex www.rebeccamayjohnson.com

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Chloe-Rose Crabtree's Mushroom Stroganoff Focaccia A recipe for fluffy focaccia with pockets of richly flavoured mushroom stroganoff. Words by Chloe-Rose Crabtree. Images by Georgia Rudd.

This was *delicious* when I had it earlier this year โ€“ if you are after a weekend baking project, I highly recommend Chloe's mushroom stroganoff focaccia !

www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/chloe-rose... @vittles.bsky.social

03.12.2025 08:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

by Gan Chin Lin!

01.12.2025 09:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@yongtaufoogazi.bsky.social @vittles.bsky.social

01.12.2025 09:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Adobo to Bring, Rice to Eat Gan Chin Lin writes about how picnics are grounds for friendship and solidarity among migrant domestic workers in Singapore. Photographs by Gan Chin Lin.

a beautifully reported and important piece on live-in domestic workers in Singapore and the role of the picnics they make for each other to eat in public space on their scant days off:

www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/adobo-to-b...

01.12.2025 09:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My new essay on mould, disorder, and trans life in the UK is out now in issue two of @vittles.bsky.social : www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/vittles-is...

29.11.2025 13:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 81    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Vittles magazine has an interview with me discussing the Michelin Guide in their latest edition (on Substack or by print subscription at ยฃ45 a year).

29.11.2025 15:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Make Your Own Festive Biscuit Box Quince Bakeryโ€™s Anna Higham puts her own spin on the US tradition of cookie gift boxes, with a selection of three quick and easy recipes to bring joy this Christmas

Anna Higham, the genius behind Quince bakery wrote some killer (and very straightforward) Christmas cookie box recipes for @vittles.bsky.social last year โ€“ย 

www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/make-your-...

26.11.2025 12:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Itโ€™s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the โ€˜paralyzing cowardiceโ€™ of todayโ€™s elites.

About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4

25.11.2025 09:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3702    ๐Ÿ” 562    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

I wish I didnโ€™t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as โ€œthe most openly corrupt president in American history.โ€ /1

25.11.2025 09:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10059    ๐Ÿ” 5142    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 335    ๐Ÿ“Œ 692
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Vittles Christmas Gift Guide 2025 The Bad Food Edition: over fifty silly, fun and delicious gift ideas suggested by the contributors to Vittlesโ€™ second print issue.

Screaming, crying, throwing up open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...

24.11.2025 09:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Vittles Christmas Gift Guide 2025 The Bad Food Edition: over fifty silly, fun and delicious gift ideas suggested by the contributors to Vittlesโ€™ second print issue.

Gift Guide is out!

www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/vittles-ch...

24.11.2025 09:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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The Myth of Sisyphus Mariam Abdel-Razek asks: why are chefs expected to love what they do? Illustration by Sing Yun Lee.

Such a good piece up today on @vittles.bsky.social by Mariam Abdel-Razek (and incred illustration by Sing Yun Lee, too)

www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-myth-o...

19.11.2025 10:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

๐Ÿฅฐ

12.11.2025 15:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Soft Cooking On complex PTSD and cooking without knives. Words and photos by Hanna Thomas Uose.

Hanna Thomas Uose on complex PTSD and finding a way to cook without knives in today's @vittles.bsky.social

www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/soft-cooking

12.11.2025 08:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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acid reflux - the customer is not always right a rant about terrible restaurant customers, ft. Thom Eagle

Wrote a bit about Bad Customers for @vittles.bsky.social! You need a paid sub I think but you should probably have one anyway open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...

07.11.2025 19:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook: An Audacious Literary Experiment Gertrude Stein's biographer Francesca Wade on how Alice B. Toklas expanded the genre of autobiography with a book of recipes. Illustration by Ella Bucknall.

I was beyond excited when the author of the new biography of Gertrude Stein, Francesca Wade, said she'd like to write about Alice B. Toklas for @vittles.bsky.social โ€“ and her essay is out today! Illustration by Ella Bucknall.

www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-alice-...

05.11.2025 08:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh good!! thank you for reading Clare!

05.11.2025 08:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife From the author of the critically acclaimed Square Haunting comes a biography as unconventional and surprising as the life it tells.

And I enthusiastically recommend Wade's biography โ€“ Stein: An Afterlife, it's a magnificent feat of archival grit and narrative brilliance โ€“ย out now in the US & US

www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...

05.11.2025 08:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook: An Audacious Literary Experiment Gertrude Stein's biographer Francesca Wade on how Alice B. Toklas expanded the genre of autobiography with a book of recipes. Illustration by Ella Bucknall.

I was beyond excited when the author of the new biography of Gertrude Stein, Francesca Wade, said she'd like to write about Alice B. Toklas for @vittles.bsky.social โ€“ and her essay is out today! Illustration by Ella Bucknall.

www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-alice-...

05.11.2025 08:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you appreciated Teen Vogueโ€™s incisive and vital reporting on race and culture, thank the Black editors and journalists who did that work. If you read their stories on trans youth and queer liberation and disability, thank the queer and trans and disabled writers who wrote them. Itโ€™s simple math!!

04.11.2025 18:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 238    ๐Ÿ” 48    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This was my parents

04.11.2025 18:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"As streets in global capitals are homogenised by billionaire-owned chains and private equity, Mamdani highlights that small-food businesses add an unquantifiable joy to the experience of living in a dense, fast-paced city."
A live-wire report of an essay by Apoorva Tadepalli (she needs to be here!)

03.11.2025 14:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How did Zohran Mamdani win over New Yorkโ€™s small restaurants? A dispatch from NYC by Apoorva Tadepalli.

A great dispatch from NYC in @vittles.bsky.social today about the role of small food businesses in Zohran Mamdani's campaigns โ€“ here's hoping some UK politicians take note... www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/how-did-zo...

03.11.2025 09:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Sesame Street - Monster in the Mirror (celebrity version)
YouTube video by mstatz Sesame Street - Monster in the Mirror (celebrity version)

Happy Halloween

m.youtube.com/watch?v=maYn...

31.10.2025 09:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

haha i have been on both sides of this situation

30.10.2025 15:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿฅฐ

30.10.2025 13:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Rachel Roddy | Manningtree Arts Join acclaimed food writer Rachel Roddy to explore Italian cuisine, her award-winning books, and stories from Rome. Recipes, culture, and culinary inspiration await.

Local bookshops ๐Ÿ’ฏ๐Ÿ’ฏ๐Ÿ’ฏ I am chatting to beloved @rachelaliceroddy.bsky.social at Manningtree Arts next month about cooking and writing and much more!

www.manningtreearts.com/event-detail...

30.10.2025 13:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Cabbage Rice and Meatballs a week in cooking

last week's cooking dinnerdocument.substack.com/p/cabbage-ri...

30.10.2025 12:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Noo! I loved that show! And generally not a fan of quite a few of the recent changes :-/

28.10.2025 10:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Vittles Issue 2 โ€“ PREORDER Vittles - Issue 1 - Spring 2025. A magazine about modern food and culture. The first issue of our print magazine, released for Vittles' fifth birthday in May 2025. 160+ pages of writing about modern f...

Issue two of @vittles.bsky.social in PRINT now available to pre-order!

It has the theme of BAD FOOD and is gross and gorgeous and packed full of incredible writing and illustrations

vittlesmagazine.myshopify.com/products/vit...

28.10.2025 10:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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