@rebeccamayjohnson
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
A gorgeous essay this one!
love the piece - thank you for writing it!
@vittles.bsky.social
When I was a waitress doing Christmas dinners I once ate an entire gravy boat of leftover brandy butter. Low time for me.
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 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...
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-...
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...
‘“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-...
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...
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...
@vittles.bsky.social
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.
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
by Gan Chin Lin!
@yongtaufoogazi.bsky.social @vittles.bsky.social
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...
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-...
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...
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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
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/...
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-...
