Food for thought #78

A weekly roundup for hungry readers📚

Reading

• The geography lesson you can eat: Around the UK in 19 local dishes

• Why the conservatory-style kitchen might be the answer to your indoor-outdoor dreams. Swoon!

• Books to read if you love The Bear

• The book cover trend you’re seeing everywhere

• I’m highly attuned to the issue of cultural appropriation in food writing, so this is interesting: Danny Boyle wouldn’t make ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ today due to “cultural appropriation”

• In this Parisian atelier, bookbinding is a family art

• Oxford English Dictionary is hoaching with new Scottish words

Watching

• The Bear, of course!

Supporting

• Imagine if every child in Ireland learned how to grow food in school. Not as an optional extra, but as a normal, natural part of the school day. That’s the vision behind GIY’s Pre-Budget Submission 2025. Hear hear,

  Mick Kelly
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Scrolling

• Writer, producer and host Phil Rosenthal is on a mission to emphasize our shared humanity through food and comedy

• Tanchen is a mix of 2 parts olive oil, 2 parts maple syrup and 1 part soy sauce - I’m intrigued

• Love these farmers’ market socks

• Never underestimate the power of butter

  intoherroots

  

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• Something to look forward to! (Or should that be RataTWOuille?)

  paris.explore

  

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Word of the week

odetogermanwords

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Artwork of the week

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I’m Kristin Jensen, the founder, publisher and editor at Blasta Books and Nine Bean Rows. Before I started my publishing house, I was a freelance editor and food writer for over 20 years and I’ve co-authored three books. I pretty much eat, sleep and breathe books and food. You can also find me on Instagram @edibleireland.📚