Want to feel like a pagan wizard? Chop up a lamb's heart (yes, really) and make my #RecipeOfTheDay, an Italian-inspired lamb's heart stew perfect for spooky season!
#food #recipe #cooking π½οΈπ
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06.10.2025 09:45 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
"Love it or hate it, ALCHEMISED deserves thoughtful analysis."
Critics aren't discussing the most interesting theme in SenLinYu's dark fantasy novel ALCHEMISED. Here's what they've missed:
#bookreview #booksky ππ
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06.10.2025 09:45 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0
How to braise a lambβs heart
Help! Iβm trapped in a 16th-century essay!
βFrying lamb hearts in a saucepan, I realise I do really weird things for this blog.β
Read about:
β’ My detailed dissection of SenLinYuβs ALCHEMISED
β’ Rudolf Wacker's visions of war
β’ Turning lamb hearts into tasty stew
πππ½οΈπ #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay
06.10.2025 09:30 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
"Approximately one in every 50 children living in Gaza before the war have been killed by Israeli attacks."
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I use email drafts to note down ideas for my newsletters: this week's, linked below, covers SenLinYu's ALCHEMISED, Weimar art, and lamb's heart stew.
My notes for this week's newsletter were...stranger than usual.
πππ½οΈπ #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking
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07.10.2025 21:02 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
YouTube video by Elin Manahan Thomas - Topic
When I Am Laid In Earth (Dido's Lament)
As a big Henry Purcell fan, this is my sign to encourage all of you to listen to his music: start with "Dido's Lament", whether in its original arrangement or Klaus Nomi's different but excellent version.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Oef...
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New Henry Purcell just dropped
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Want to feel like a pagan wizard? Chop up a lamb's heart (yes, really) and make my #RecipeOfTheDay, an Italian-inspired lamb's heart stew perfect for spooky season!
#food #recipe #cooking π½οΈπ
buff.ly/yefDflE
06.10.2025 09:45 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
"Love it or hate it, ALCHEMISED deserves thoughtful analysis."
Critics aren't discussing the most interesting theme in SenLinYu's dark fantasy novel ALCHEMISED. Here's what they've missed:
#bookreview #booksky ππ
buff.ly/yefDflE
06.10.2025 09:45 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0
How to braise a lambβs heart
Help! Iβm trapped in a 16th-century essay!
βFrying lamb hearts in a saucepan, I realise I do really weird things for this blog.β
Read about:
β’ My detailed dissection of SenLinYuβs ALCHEMISED
β’ Rudolf Wacker's visions of war
β’ Turning lamb hearts into tasty stew
πππ½οΈπ #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay
06.10.2025 09:30 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
It occurs to me that novel!Bond has a very Alan Partridge-style egotism about him. The legitimately funny gag in THUNDERBALL where he becomes a health nut who lectures his housekeeper about chewing bread is easily something Steve Coogan could pull off.
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My favourite lighthearted example of this is Ronald Knox warning detective novelists in 1929 that "No Chinaman must figure in the story"...in the spirit of criticising authors using stereotypical ethnic minorities as villains.
03.10.2025 21:04 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
JRR Tolkien gave an incredibly influential lecture that redefined how the poem BEOWULF was studied, and wrote a few novels too.
Roald Dahl also wrote some stuff, served as an RAF fighter pilot, and helped develop the Wade-Dahl-Till valve to treat hydrocephalus.
03.10.2025 10:09 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Rice wine and pizza? How KANPAI brews Japanese sake for British tables β LOST ART
Whereas traditionalΒ sake matches Japanese dishes, the sake KANPAI brews in London can be served with robust international flavours, from spicy curry to a Sunday roastβ¦
'Youβre being served a slice of pepperoni pizza. With it comes a glass ofβ¦ Japanese rice wine?'
I interviewed the co-founder of KANPAI, the UK's first sake brewery, about the UK market for this drink and pairing sakes with Sunday roasts!
#food #cooking π½οΈπ
www.lost-art.media/foodstuff/ri...
02.10.2025 13:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"The new PERCY JACKSON novel reminds me of a 19th-century essay."
Want to know what this means? Read my review of Rick Riordan & Mark Oshiro's THE COURT OF THE DEAD.
#bookreview #booksky ππ
wsluk.substack.com/p/nostalgia-...
29.09.2025 09:00 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Nostalgia and other myths
It's all Greek to me!
βJoin me on a route through bread dough and memoriesβ¦β
Read about:
β’ THE COURT OF THE DEAD's nostalgic troubles
β’ The curious case of Cycladic sculpture
β’ Grape & rosemary focaccia fit for Zeus Himself
πππ½οΈπ #booksky #bookreview #art #food #cooking #RecipeOfTheDay
29.09.2025 08:15 β π 10 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Really? Because at the barbershop I always ask to get a short HarperCollins and sides.
30.09.2025 11:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I've read my 365th book of 2025, from Homer and Melville to Hannah Grace and Casey McQuiston.
Feel free to ask questions about my reading habits and Goodreads, such as "huh?", and "why?", and "what's wrong with you?".
#booksky #books #reading ππ
www.goodreads.com/user/show/18...
30.09.2025 09:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"New research shows that King Zhou of Shang's concubine *was* actually a demonic fox spirit. We cross now to our Chinese mythology correspondent, reporting live from the Lake of Wine and Forest of Meat..."
29.09.2025 21:48 β π 18 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
"I say, chaps, the butler's rumpled my cravat! We must kill the bounder! Crispin, bring me my duelling pistols!"
JEEVES AND WOOSTER: THE PURGE β In Theatres Soon
29.09.2025 18:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I'm glad you like the sound of today's newsletter! I hope that you'll subscribe toβand, ideally, readβit.
29.09.2025 09:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"The new PERCY JACKSON novel reminds me of a 19th-century essay."
Want to know what this means? Read my review of Rick Riordan & Mark Oshiro's THE COURT OF THE DEAD.
#bookreview #booksky ππ
wsluk.substack.com/p/nostalgia-...
29.09.2025 09:00 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
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