Vittles Magazine

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 – 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

Vittles magazine has an interview with me discussing the Michelin Guide in their latest edition (on Substack or by print subscription at £45 a year).

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...

Vittles Christmas Gift Guide 2025 The Bad Food Edition: over fifty silly, fun and delicious gift ideas suggested by the contributors to Vittles’ second print issue.

Gift Guide is out!

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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 Vittles’ second print issue.

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

The Myth of Sisyphus Mariam Abdel-Razek asks: why are chefs expected to love what they do? Illustration by Sing Yun Lee.

An excellent piece in @vittles.bsky.social by one of our recent @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social Writing graduates, Mariam Abdel-Razek.

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...

'You want to imagine what this tastes like? Fuck you, says AI' Georgina Voss on how AI-generated images impact the way we look at photographs of food. Illustration by Ibrahim Rayintakath.

This . From @vittles.bsky.social
. Is bloody great.

Adding tongue emojis for emphasis.

👅👅👅👅👅🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

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'You want to imagine what this tastes like? Fuck you, says AI' Georgina Voss on how AI-generated images impact the way we look at photographs of food. Illustration by Ibrahim Rayintakath.

For @vittles.bsky.social, I wrote about what happens food photography - a practice steeped in stagecraft - meets the synthetic horrors of AI images. Gorgeous original illustration by Ibrahim Rayintakath. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/you-want-t...

VITTLES Restaurants Is There Anywhere Good to Eat in Bromley? Where to eat in Penge, Welling, Sidcup and Beckenham by Jonathan Nunn, MiMi Aye, Gary Doherty, Apoorva Sripathi, Toyo Odetunde and Tom Jenkins. VITTLES NOV 14

Extremely proud to have
contributed to @vittles.bsky.social
'Six of the Best' South South East London Special and cracking up to discover that *two* of our recommendations are on the exact same road.

Out today!

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Death by Duxelles How modern food culture played a decisive role in the Erin Patterson trial, by Aaron Timms. Illustration by Sing Yun Lee.

"Beef Wellington is a dish designed to dazzle and comfort at once. It offered the perfect cover for Patterson’s plan, dressing intent to kill in the flaky drapery of a culinary showstopper." —Aaron Timms for @vittles.bsky.social

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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

Death by Duxelles How modern food culture played a decisive role in the Erin Patterson trial, by Aaron Timms. Illustration by Sing Yun Lee.

Perfect example of why I recommend @vittles.bsky.social to so many ppl. This kind of roving thoughtful exploration of the edges of a topic-historical/social connections you'd never make yourself-models the kind of piece I love to read (& ideally write) (also feeds my obsession w/Aus food TV MKR4Eva)

Death by Duxelles How modern food culture played a decisive role in the Erin Patterson trial, by Aaron Timms. Illustration by Sing Yun Lee.

Fascinating @vittles.bsky.social on the murder by Beef Wellington in Oz: “We don’t know whether Patterson is a fan of MasterChef, but all murders reflect culture back to itself." www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/death-by-d...

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/...

In the past, in my experience, bad customers were mainly either drunk and entitled or else minor celebrities, the kind who have tasted just enough fame to be complete arseholes; Graham Linehan, for example, seemingly made a point of always coming in five minutes after lunch service had started and asking for breakfast while his companions ordered from the lunch menu. “They’d tell him to fuck off at McDonald’s,” we’d mutter, but make him his bacon sandwich anyway. In fact, we would have told him to fuck off too (rather more politely) if he hadn’t been then-beloved sitcom writer Graham Linehan, years before his reinvention as extremely divorced transphobe. We should have realised.

Fantastic little vignette about Glinner from today's @vittles.bsky.social newsletter (I highly recommend subscribing btw, if you're in any way interested in food).

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 – and her essay is out today! Illustration by Ella Bucknall.

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How did Zohran Mamdani win over New York’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 – here's hoping some UK politicians take note... www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/how-did-zo...

Vittles Issue 2 – 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

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'We're just a bakery': Does Gail's rely on low-paid migrant workers to further its expansionist vision? The economics and migration behind the Gail’s expansion. Words by Sasha Patel and Ben Jacob. Illustration by Kruttika Susarla.

Today’s newsletter is an investigation by Sasha Patel and Ben Jacob into the expansion of Gail’s, and how it relies on low-paid migrant workers (particularly from Gujarat) to sustain its rate of growth.

Thank you to every Gail’s worker who talked to us.

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'We're just a bakery': Does Gail's rely on low-paid migrant workers to further its expansionist vision? The economics and migration behind the Gail’s expansion. Words by Sasha Patel and Ben Jacob. Illustration by Kruttika Susarla.

Today’s newsletter is an investigation by Sasha Patel and Ben Jacob into the expansion of Gail’s, and how it relies on low-paid migrant workers (particularly from Gujarat) to sustain its rate of growth.

Thank you to every Gail’s worker who talked to us.

www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/at-gails-w...

This Pot is Mine Eli Davies on cooking to ground herself in new kitchens after repeated house moves prompted by precarious rental markets

This @vittles.bsky.social article by Eli Davies is a lovely piece of writing www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/this-pot-i...

This Pot is Mine Eli Davies on cooking to ground herself in new kitchens after repeated house moves prompted by precarious rental markets

I love this piece by @elidavies.bsky.social in today's @vittles.bsky.social (free to read) featuring @nigelslater.bsky.social beloved lentils and a well-travelled pot

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This story - see also @londoncentric.media - is really upsetting and just awful. I emailed Neil Coyle MP just now to urge him to intervene - so should YOU.

There's one week left to save one of London's best restaurants The battle for Castle Square, and suspicious goings on in Southwark, by Jonathan Nunn and Gavin Cleaver

Per @vittles.bsky.social on the superb restaurant threatened with closure in Elephant & Castle, #London: Latin Elephant is organising a public protest & creating a template for residents to email MPs & Council to urge scrutiny of what’s happening at Castle Square open.substack.com/pub/vittles/...

Sharing some recipes in today’s @vittles.bsky.social 😈 If you were horrified by Iga Świątek’s strawberry pasta, you’re not ready for this one. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/cooking-fr...

Cooking from the Polski Sklep Marta Zboralska’s recipes for zupa owocowa (fruit soup) and naleśniki z serem (pancakes with sweet cheese filling). Photos by Georgia Rudd.

Marta Zboralska on a dish she loves but which many people hate – fruit soup – and recipes for cooking from the polski sklep on @vittles.bsky.social

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More than just Dal Apoorva Sripathi's quick and easy sundals using green lentils and chickpeas, plus a refreshing roasted peach and rosewater lassi.

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

The Lost Food of Soho

Late to the party, here, but loving the @vittles.bsky.social podcast about the lost food, restaurants and culture of Soho. The 2012 Olympics and Covid amongst the things to blame. A love letter to the much-missed Dionysus at the start.
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‘Every Filipino I rescue, I bring to Earl’s Court’ Inside the restaurants of London’s enduring Filipino neighbourhood. Words by Francesca Humi. Photographs by Michaël Protin.

Great to see this piece in Vittles on how exploited Filipino domestic workers find solace in London's Earl's Court.

This kind of insight shows how the UK's immigration rules impact every fibre of society, from who runs the kitchen to who sits at the table.

www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/every-fili...