Ned Palmer

A Day in the Life of a Freelance Cheesemonger Eating more cheese...

This week's Substack post in which I eat all the cheese: bit.ly/IEatAllTheCh...

New Substack drops tomorrow! Here's last week's bit on the delicious Dorstone just to catch you up: bit.ly/Dorstone

TRUE story of Charlie Chaplin's upbringing that inspired The Tramp Charlie Chaplin was not raised in affluence and comfort, quite the opposite. New book explores the poverty stricken childhood that shaped the star.

'Jacqueline Riding evokes late 19th-century London with an artist’s eye'

Read a review of #HardStreets by @jacriding.bsky.social in the Mail Online and learn more about the working-class streets of Edwardian London that shaped Charlie Chaplin.

www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/a...

Cheese of the month, the domestic version: Dorstone, the moussy little goats cheese from Hereford and what to drink with it: bit.ly/Dorstone

I want to read this!

Poster for the Edible Boundaries conference at University of Warwick on 14 March 2026.

Looking forward to speaking about dairywomen and cheesemaking at the Edible Boundaries conference at University of Warwick on 14 March 🧀

@edibleboundaries.bsky.social

Cheese of the Month! Provençal goat's cheeses Buchette de Manon and MIstralou, harbingers of the Spring: bit.ly/CheeseOfTheM...

I want to do this more!

Thank you for coming, I am glad you enjoyed it! And yes, yes they should. I can help with that...

Andy Swinscoe wrote a book! Unsurprisingly it's a cracker...https://bit.ly/CheesyReadsWensleydale

I don't think that was one of mine...Let's do another one!

An absolute banger...Really looking forward to our bit!

Tasting History Researching and Experiencing the Development of the Cheese Trade Keynes Library, Gordon Square Tuesday 24 February 2026 1500-1730 This interactive, experiential event will include a discussion with Ned Palmer, author of A Cheesemonger’s History of the British Isles, and Alasdair McNeill, a Birkbeck doctoral student researching the early modern cheese trade. It will be accompanied by a free tasting of six historic cheeses. Ned will introduce each cheese by placing it in its historical context, and the tastings will be interspersed with a conversation between Ned and Alasdair about the development of the trade and its importance to broader histories of commercialisation, labour relations, and women’s social and economic role. They will also discuss the value, and limits, of experiential food studies. How can the history of cheese – from milking to mongering – illuminate the role of ordinary women and men in their local communities and wider society? How can producing and tasting historic foods help us understand their histories?

‘Tasting History: Researching and Experiencing the Development of the Cheese Trade’, with @cheesetastingco.bsky.social and @cheeseandpeople.bsky.social, hosted by Birkbeck's Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Feb 24th!

Register here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Cool!

Five people about to set out on a tour of history and cheese in the area of London Bridge and Borough High Street.

Various delicious cheeses paired with equally delicious beer, including one excellent non-alcoholic beer.

Ned Palmer, freelance cheesemonger, cutting up cheese for a tasting session.

Excellent cheese-related tour and tasting led by freelance cheesemonger, historian, storyteller and best-selling author Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social
This man can get cheese into any story (and of course therefore improve the story) 🧀

A Cheesemonger's Tour of London Uncover centuries of flavor on a tour of the ancient London Bridge area, with tales of cheesemakers, cheese monks and cheese pirates. Finish with a cheese & beer tasting in a historic London tavern.

A Cheesemonger's Tour of London! Come and eat cheese, drink beer and listen to stories of cheese pirates, monks, mysteries and magic! Still some places left for December and January! bit.ly/LondonCheese...

Hi all, just FYI I can't receive or send DMs on here because I would have to go through the age verification thing (No idea why) and I refuse to. If you want to contact me the best way is via my website contact form. Pip pip!

An Evening with Ned Palmer Saturday 29th November — The Cheese Press The Perfect Christmas Cheeseboard Ned will guide us through five exceptional cheeses , each perfectly paired with a matching wine — the ultimate inspiration for your festive cheeseboard...

Come to sunny Richmond this Saturday for The Perfect Christmas Cheeseboard! 5 delicious cheeses, fruitcake, a plethora of fine boozes, and me! Also you can buy my books, perfect presents for the cheese fanatic in your life! FEEL THE BENEFIT. www.thecheesepressrichmond.co.uk/shop/p/nedpa...

FEET!

I had a GREAT time on Joe’s podcast. Not least watching him eating cheese topless in his caravan.

Filthy Queens - A History of Irish Beer & Women Brewers | The Delicious Legacy Get more from The Delicious Legacy on Patreon

Irish stories, myths and legends are full of spirits and ghosts. The history of beer in Ireland is no different; many of these shadowy echoes are still reverberating in the modern brewing history.
www.patreon.com/posts/125121...

The Life of a Greco-Finnish Chef in Helsinki

Hello!
New episode is out for all to enjoy!
What is like to be a Greek chef, living and working in Helsinki? From Crete to Finland with Aino!
Lets find out...
open.spotify.com/episode/2zGc...

If anyone lost a bag of books from LRB Bookshop on the Metropolitan Line between Baker St- Watford, I handed it to a cleaner when the train terminated at Watford tube station. And if you have far more followers than me, please share this status. LRB bookshop is not cheap!

Food in Shakespeare: The Mystery Ingredient with Victoria Gonzalez-Gordon, Jane Steward and Ned Palmer

Cheese! Specifically Shakespearean cheese, and the discussion thereof on Sam Bilton's brilliant podcast Comfortably Hungry.
open.substack.com/pub/comforta...

I'll be ok then!

Hi Martin! Absolutely! Can you email me? I don't have messaging on here cos of Big Brother Kier...

Renowned BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time receives prestigious British Academy President’s Medal for 2025 The British Academy has awarded its prestigious President’s Medal to the long-running and beloved BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time. Recognising its outstanding contribution to humanities and social s...

We are awarding our President's Medal to 'In Our Time' as it has done so much to showcase humanities & social sciences. We'd decided this before the news of Melvyn Bragg stepping down, but glad we got our timing right & had a chance to celebrate with him!
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/renowne...

So exciting!

Ajvar the delicious moreish spread of cooked roasted red peppers from North macedonia.

Meat bourek. A pie to die for!

Baked beans, the massive Prespa beans called giant beans in a traditional clay pot with red peppers and paprika!

The street food of the bygone eras of the Balkans! Čevapčici (Kebačinja) basically finger thin meat patties, sort of long burgers served wirth bread ajvar and onion and whatever else you like to!

4/x It's the foods, the dishes, the recipes that bring us together! These have no borders, and similar recipes have been shared by the Balkan people for generations across our modern borders! Here's some delicious stuff!
Credit: The Balkan Kitchen (Quadrille, 2024), Copyright: Photos Liz Seabrook.

A rectangular graphic with a cream background and a red and blue border. In the centre is the paperback book A Cheesemonger's Tour de France by Ned Palmer. The book is surrounded by red and blue illustrations of French cheese. The Profile Books logo is in the bottom, right-hand corner.

Tuck into to @cheesetastingco.bsky.social's brie-lliant guide to the cheeses of France with #ACheesemongersTourDeFrance, out today in paperback 🇫🇷

Complete with tasting notes and serving suggestions, this is a must-read for the cheese lover in your life.

🧀: tinyurl.com/ACheesemongersTourDeFrancePB