RMJ
@rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social
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
TIL (thanks to @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social) that there's an out-of-season cabbage version of my beloved Roman puntarelle salad
The best new thing I've eaten this year
cabbage salad in rome, and then in essex
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Such a delight to welcome Eli Davies and Rebecca May Johnson this evening for a discussion about Eli’s book THE SPINSTER COOKBOOK. We have plenty of signed copies available in store and on our website: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/the-sp...
Wes Streeting is already facing growing calls to stand down as PM
A gorgeous essay this one!
Luke Turner@luketurner.bsky.social · 7mo agoI've written about how my troubled relationship with food was helped by "ratting" – the decadent habit of restaurant staff scarfing customers' abandoned food, and one that gives a thrill in the domestic kitchen. The ratter, you see, is hornier than most... www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/i-once-ate...
When I was a waitress doing Christmas dinners I once ate an entire gravy boat of leftover brandy butter. Low time for me.
Luke Turner@luketurner.bsky.social · 7mo agoI've written about how my troubled relationship with food was helped by "ratting" – the decadent habit of restaurant staff scarfing customers' abandoned food, and one that gives a thrill in the domestic kitchen. The ratter, you see, is hornier than most... www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/i-once-ate...
I've written about how my troubled relationship with food was helped by "ratting" – the decadent habit of restaurant staff scarfing customers' abandoned food, and one that gives a thrill in the domestic kitchen. The ratter, you see, is hornier than most... www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/i-once-ate...
‘I once ate a fly thinking it was crispy carbonised meat’: On Ratting
Luke Turner on an eating habit he developed while working in restaurants in the late 1990s. Illustration by Antoine Cossé.
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I simply love to be able to commission essays like @luketurner.bsky.social piece on 'ratting' – a perverse eating practice he developed working in restaurants at the turn of the millenium. Illustration by Antoine Cossé In today's @vittles.bsky.social (free) www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/i-once-ate...
‘I once ate a fly thinking it was crispy carbonised meat’: On Ratting
Luke Turner on an eating habit he developed while working in restaurants in the late 1990s. Illustration by Antoine Cossé.
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Sex and food at the LRB Bookshop with a discussion by writers Sheena Patel and Lauren J Joseph whose work is in the new issue of @vittles.bsky.social magazine! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vittles-2-...
Vittles 2: Lauren J Joseph, Sheena Patel, & Odhran O’Donoghue
A discussion of the relationship between food and the erotic, to celebrate the second print issue of Vittles
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As soon as I am allowed to eat offal again I want Nick's Venetian calves' liver and mashed potato !! recipe up now on @vittles.bsky.social www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/fegato-all...
Fegato alla Veneziana with Buttery Mash
Nick Bramham’s take on the evocative Venetian classic will transport you to the Grand Canal on even the dreariest of winter days. Words and images by Nick Bramham.
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‘“How do we cook this like Mom?” Our resources are our memories, and trial and error. We haven’t had a relationship with our mom for almost twenty years.’ Monica Cardenas on cooking her mother’s dishes after decades of estrangement in @vittles.bsky.social www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/its-fasul-...
It’s Fasul and Yes, I’m Saying it Right
Monica Cardenas on cooking her mother's dishes after decades of estrangement.
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london is one of the greatest food cities in the world. for the last few years, i’ve been writing this for @vittles.bsky.social: a guide to everything interesting about eating in london right now, from fine dining to diaspora restaurants. i hope you enjoy it! www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-vittle...
The Vittles 99: The Full List
By popular demand.
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First day of a big week of restaurant writing at @vittles.bsky.social: @jonathandnunn.bsky.social ate at c. 3000 London restaurants, showing unhinged commitment to his research (& putting his body through *a lot*) for this incredible public service journalism www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-99-bes...
The 99 Best Restaurants in London, by Jonathan Nunn
The Vittles 99. Part 1: 99–76
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My copy arrived today and I've read a fraction of it. It's more than a magazine, something new that I can't quite define. The writing is dense, beautiful and always fascinating. I've learned loads and I'm not even half way through.
RMJ@rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social · 9mo agoIssue 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...
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
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.
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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...
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.
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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...
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).
Anna Higham, the genius behind Quince bakery wrote some killer (and very straightforward) Christmas cookie box recipes for @vittles.bsky.social last year – www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/make-your-...
Make Your Own Festive Biscuit Box
Quince Bakery’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
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It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites. About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
I wish I didn’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 “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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...
The Myth of Sisyphus
Mariam Abdel-Razek asks: why are chefs expected to love what they do? Illustration by Sing Yun Lee.
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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
Soft Cooking
On complex PTSD and cooking without knives. Words and photos by Hanna Thomas Uose.
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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/...
acid reflux - the customer is not always right
a rant about terrible restaurant customers, ft. Thom Eagle
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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. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-alice-...
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.
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