I've been lurking for a while, waiting ti see which platform takes off. I like it here, without all of the clickbaity crap of the Threads homepage.
It's the big day! Am vv proud of this and The Times gave it a stonking review so don't take my word for it. Available at all the usual places & also libraries. Please support the high street tho (duh!) - but this includes the likes of waterstones and bookshop.org who are have or support real shops
A new episode of The British Food History Podcast is out now! 1st of a 3-parter about English Food by Jane Grigson which is 50 years old this year. My guests are @mrssbilton.bsky.social@dranniegray.bsky.socialopen.spotify.com/episode/6vZ2...
Episode · The British Food History Podcast · The book English Food by Jane Grigson was published 50 years ago this year. It’s a book that has completely changed my life and I wanted to celebrate it – ...
Not sure whether bluesky is also experiencing the Great Xodus but fwiw, if you've fled there to here, hello, I'm a social historian mainly looking at British food and dining, and this is a book I wrote which is out in October. (I think I'm mainly on insta atm, though threads may be hotting up?)
I love marmite but they have ruined it by making it runny to suit the stupid squeezy bottles of plastic doom. Trifle is the devil's work. Eurovision is better than Xmas. The end.
I might have missed a memo on that. Can I have strong and clever and well informed opinions on trifle and marmite and eurovision instead?
The programme for this (which, yes, includes me) looks amazing. Tix via www.vam.ac.uk/event/OwMEWo...
I think they are? I didn't want to pay the £30 to try it - finally managed it at a honey place where the poor woman was patiently explaining it did v little if eaten & was all about the antiseptic properties for wounds. But also there are grades of it, & most smkt ones are basically useless.
External dressing is the only possible use for manuka (having tasted some 🤢) - tcp flavoured honey. Used widely still in NZ for wounds (and by my friends for their accident prone greyhound).