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The third para here is also evidence of this.

Using-up-what’s-in-the-fridge gratin of fennel/red onion/potato/cream/herbs with a radicchio/watercress salad. Then PC rice pudding with bay leaf and forced rhubarb baked in blood orange juice/star anise. In frabjous day news: glass of my fav Punt e Mes with a slice of orange

Tremendous piece; thank you.

Don’t think I’ve ever seen a worse strip.

Landrace, both bakery and restaurant. Don’t miss it.

That looks fantastic!

Each sentence dense with information. The way in which he was handed on from rich man to rich man even after his lies and thefts were discovered…

Her substack today says she wrote about it in her 2022 book, The Palace Papers.

The caption actually made me laugh aloud: worthy of the NYT in its coyness

I was there yesterday - what an extraordinary survival it is, and how marvellous that it is kept open.

Roast cauliflower/onion on pita with harissa/tahini sauce and chopped cuc/avocado/olive/parsley salad. Then a sensibly bought spare Christmas pud from Quince (really good: very nutty, light, alcoholic; not very sweet). Glass q basic white left over from book club.

Oh yes PLEASE. Slightly off-squeaky for me tho

This might be the most incredible video you'll ever see

:shudders:

So enjoying it - can hardly believe I’ll have to wait for vol II (I assume he’s working on it?).

Do you know about this amazing place in Park Royal? https://www.levantlondon.com

as long as they’re not replaced with football references

IIRC (can’t face opening the website again) that obit actually talked about his focus on the clean, elegant design of the paper.

This is a wonderful thread. Scholarship, creativity, a portrait of a generation.

I’ve been using @boostblue.bsky.social, which makes this possible. WHAT a boon

Quite. Secret harmonies heard.

Ha! The Vision of Visions heals the Blindness of Sight :rearranges veils:

I didn’t make it! It is a v posh though perhaps rather too salty one from La Fromagerie

God that sounds good. Here virtuous leftovers of bean/cavolo nero/January King soup with, admittedly, the same lashings of grated Parmesan. Also leftover pork pie + fennel sausage and a mustardy green salad (not leftover). Muscat grapes.

This is the loveliest tribute to his wife, the writer Rachel Cooke, by Anthony Quinn in the Observer:https://observer.co.uk/style/features/article/her-amazing-smile-was-undimmed-and-i-would-try-anything-to-summon-it

Uses here are (a) cabbage and (b) seed cake. Both of which I love. But this evening it was fennel and it was good - thank you!

SO good. Also caraway seeds. I shall now be adding one or the other alongside the white beans/leeks/miso dressing/hb eggs thing I’m making for supper. Thank you!

I should have added: @laurahughesft.bsky.social’s series is this, Toxic Legacy

Very good news and the result of some fine reporting and an unsensational but gripping podcast series.

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion by Michelle Dean – review Dean’s group biography of female writers who dared speak their mind is a great and worthy project

'Sharp women everywhere, I tell you: be pointy and proud.' One of my favourite Rachel Cooke reviews (there are so many to choose from). She was especially good at writing about group biography, having written one herself (Her Brilliant Career). What a fantastic critic she was, a one-off.