Karyn Noble ✍️📝🕵️‍♀️

Chef Skye Gyngell, who pioneered the slow food movement, dies aged 62 Tributes paid to ‘culinary visionary’ who was early celebrity proponent of using local and seasonal ingredients

Australian legend in London. RIP.
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/no...

Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds World’s largest scientific review warns consumption of UPFs poses seismic threat to global health and wellbeing

Question is: when will any govt have the courage to stand up to Big Food and slap 'warning' labels on these heavily marketed products? #food
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Text message from a Brazil country-code number: 'Hi Dad, messaging you from my iPad eSim...my old number's been switched off since upgrading. Please reply so I can send you my new number'.
HELLO LONG-LOST SON I CAN'T RECALL BIRTHING. I'll excuse you for misgendering me, it's been a while. 🤷‍♀️

Me circa 2020: Oh, how nice that one of the girls* from the B52s is putting out solo stuff. Very good.🎶
Me in 2025 finally learning that Katy J Pearson is not the girl from the B52s: 🙃👵

* That's Kate Pierson, you can see my confusion...
<retiring 'has-finger-on-new-music-pulse' hat>
#music

Email: "Dear Karyn and team"
<looks around in bewilderment>

Restaurants, if I have to look forever on your website for your Instagram site, it is REALLY BAD DESIGN. It should be on the opening page. If I have to Google it because it's not on your website at all, that's even worse, lol.

"We've found the best...in partnership with our friends at <brand name>". No, these are not necessarily the best. Is the brand one of the things on the best list? Or owns things on the list? They paid them to be on the list. Read it but keep that in mind.

How Does a Restaurant Get a Star in the Michelin Guide? Despite the restaurant guide's widespread influence, the question of how to get a Michelin star is still a commonly asked one.

'There is no such thing as a ‘Michelin-starred chef’'.
I see this description often when I'm editing (and have previously used it myself), but it's incorrect. 👇#foodtravel
elitetraveler.com/finest-dinin...

👀Nooooooooo. 🙅‍♀️🙈

Pret a Manger launches salad revamp – and one starts at £12.95 Chain says supersized lunch reflects growing trend of workers ‘treating’ themselves on days they are in office

'...the chain said: “Our kale comes destemmed and sliced and is lovingly hand-massaged by our teams in our iconic French dressing for 45 seconds in our shop kitchens. This helps to soften the kale and keeps the minerals and nutrients in.”' 👀
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Choose comfort, ditch boring and prioritise pleasure – how to find the perfect beach read It’s easy to dismiss holiday novels as pulpy, but relaxing with a book you enjoy has huge health benefits. Here’s how to read yourself happy this summer

Soooo many good points in this piece...about #reading in general. #books📖
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

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If 'hidden gem' is on the banned list, then encountering 'hidden bijoux' in text made me lol. #amediting

Things to love about voting in Australia. 😂#democracysausage

Some wholesome content to cleanse the evil in the world....🧑‍🌾

Australian with working visa detained and deported on returning to US from sister’s memorial Man who says he had previously left and re-entered the country multiple times alleges border officials called him ‘retarded’ and boasted ‘Trump is back in town’

This is also happening to Australians who live in the US then attempt to re-enter...👇😬 #travel
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I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...

Shaking my head that this could actually happen. And is still happening...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Yes! 💯 Such a wonderful service and always a lovely surprise to see when checking the bank account today. Whenever a piece of mine is published, it's such routine now to remember to log it on the ALCS website.

Radiohead are still in my top five concerts of all time. 💯🎸🎶

In (unsurprising, really) news, one of Australia's #coffee shops was just voted best in the world (with two other Oz venues in the top 10) in this inaugural list...👀☕
theworlds100bestcoffeeshops.com/top-100-coff...

French Butter Is the Je Ne Sais Quoi in Lune and Four Pillars' Croissant Gin The Fitzroy croissanterie supplied the Healesville distillery with 50 kilograms of the stuff to make this extremely rare drop.

Croissant Gin. I would be sceptical were it not these two big players. 👀🥐🍸Four Pillars Gin vs Lune Croissanterie
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Oh, wonderful. And phew. I just read a two-star review and hoped they hadn't jumped the shark with it. So much nostalgia and love for Bridget. x #justassheis

Who wants to look a million dollars, these days? | Zoe Williams There was a time when being a millionaire represented fantastical, unimaginable wealth – but our language needs an update, writes Zoe Williams

Not sure whether to admire this sub-editor house-style stickler or lol. 😂#editing

'when a photo caption once ran “Elizabeth Taylor arrived looking like a million dollars” and the newspaper sub added, per house style, “(£565,000)”, people found that ridiculous;'

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Troll me all you like, Duolingo. Did you meet all the crazy deadlines I've met in that time while trying to pack for a trip? No, you did not. Parler à la main.✋

Good to hear. This film has been on my must-see list ever since I saw the trailer. Haven't had this much anticipation since 'The Menu'.📽️🍿

Coffee drinkers reap health boost – but only if they do it in the morning Pre-lunch brewers enjoy lower risk of death, analysis finds, but benefit vanishes among all-day drinkers

As someone who can never sleep after a post-lunch #coffee (therefore only drink it in the morning), I am thrilled with this news.☕👍
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ja...

Consuming arts and culture is good for health and wellbeing, research finds Engaging with arts improves quality of life, increases productivity and creates financial ‘dividend’

Swerve the chemist and head for the art gallery/concert/theatre. 💆‍♀️🏛️🎫🎭
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

I love the way your caption completely ignores Sydney Opera House under construction in the background. 😂

‘£60 for Dolce and Gabbana’: how posh panettone is becoming a Christmas staple Supermarkets are reporting surging sales, with customers apparently willing to spend more on exotic versions of the Italian festive bread

Shout out to the 'Australian raisins' in privileged position in Fortnum & Mason's £395 'Ultimate Panettone'. 🤯
www.theguardian.com/food/2024/de...

I love that London's National Gallery sells these sorts of #Christmas tree decorations. 😍🎨