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writes dreams of canteens SMALL FIRES, An Epic in the Kitchen is out now in the US & UK! edits @vittlesmagazine
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the fact many people don't want want to return to working in hospitality after lockdown because of poor working conditions reminds me of discussions of 'the servant problem' in early 20th century & that ppl did not return to working in domestic service after the war
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Yes: they give me hope for the future
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a break – for some – from those conditions has exposed how undesirable they are in many cases
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People who think centrist Labour would have done better should look at how poorly the Lib Dems did
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& frankly given the widespread nature of such working conditions, including in previously 'professional' contexts such as universities (bad-constant work hours, insecure/zero hour contracts and low pay). If all in such situations were to refuse/strike, it would be very powerful!
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Did you ever see such fridge magnets!!!! Now that I have a tinned tomato fridge magnet, my life is arguably complete.
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Banning eating on public transport presumes kids/people are in a position to eat at home, given many things eg precarious labour, homelessness, long work commutes, unsafe home environments, that is foolish and dangerous
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Some personal news !
.
@PushkinPress
picks up "a truly original approach to food and food writing" from
@rebeccamjohnson
with Small Fires: Pleasure and Resistance in the Kitchen! Find out more about the work of food writing, social criticism and "bold thinking" here:
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I know that
@TheMontyDon
et al need time off, but I miss Gardeners World! I wish there were monthly (instead of weekly) shows in the winter on bulbs (indoor & outdoor), mulching, sowing winter broad beans and peas, natural seasonal decorations, planting bare roots and pruning etc
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No one involved was willing to cross the
@pcs_union
picket at the British Library so we moved our event to later in the year 🥪💖
A new date and more tickets released for The Multiple Lives of the Sandwich
@britishlibrary
#FoodSeason
with
@Nigella_Lawson
@demarionunn
and
@rebeccamjohnson
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I am so excited to announce that I am now a co-editor of
@vittlesmagazine
, working with
@SharanyaDeepak
and
@demarionunn
. I was so delighted an honoured when J asked me, I have been in awe of what he's achieved with Vittles, the voices that we've been able to enjoy and listen to-
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1) do not stigmatise what people eat/gives joy 2) if you want ppl to eat more vegetables then find political solution e.g. shorter work hours, fight fuel- AKA cooking- poverty, support life through universal basic income & subsidise produce. More, not less
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Woke up to an email saying
@lorde
bought my book! Alongside several of my recent favourite reads 😭🥰🤯💓
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She was known for her political and investigative journalism, but Dawn wrote this very moving, difficult (cw) and finally hopeful piece of memoir about food for a website I run a couple of years ago. She had such range. RIP.
We are immensely saddened to announce that our dear friend
@DawnHFoster
died suddenly at home this week, related to her long-term illness. I, and I know many of you, loved her deeply, and it is a terrible loss.
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I wish a UK university would make a centre for writing+critical thinking on food & eating practices-archives, recipe books, post colonial narratives, body discourses, writing place, concepts of private/collective hospitality, pleasure, erotics, ecologies of food production, art.
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My publisher made me an apron of my book cover and gave it to me after my event! Beaming about it!
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Omg my proof is here!! Feels unreal to hold it in my hands! We don’t have a printer so this is the first time I have seen it on paper and the typesetters have done the most beautiful work on a challenging text. 💖🔥💖
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Omg I have just heard from my publisher that they are reprinting Small Fires after a week??!!
Thank you buying and reading my book! 💖
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the direct action in glasgow is the most joyful heartwarming thing in a long time
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Time for bed after a wonderful conversation about sandwiches with
@Nigella_Lawson
and
@demarionunn
at the
@britishlibrary
as the final event of food season - and great audience Qs 🥪❤️
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If restaurants can't be viable right now due to covid, they should be nationalised for the duration & used to make and distribute food to those who need it. They are set up to cook at scale & source produce at trade prices; an effective way to feed people & manage resources.
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I am so so happy to share the book cover to SMALL FIRES with this marvellous gif !
I love what
@jowalkertweets
has designed ❤️🔥 I can’t wait to share the book with you in August 🔥🔥🔥
We are SO excited to reveal the cover of Small Fires by
@rebeccamjohnson
🔥🔥🔥
This revolutionary book will awaken you to the richness of cooking as a means of experiencing the self and the world.
Out August 25th, pre-order yours now:
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Oh…hi!!!!! Small Fires is on the shortlist for
@Foyles
Nonfiction Book of the Year!
Wow - proud to have got here with my wonderful indie publisher
@PushkinPress
💖💖💖💖💖💖
Our Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 shortlist, featuring
@TJDHalliday
@AllenLaneBooks
#HaJoonChang
#KatherineRundell
@talyabaldwin
@FaberBooks
@rebeccamjohnson
@PushkinPress
@seanehewitt
@vintagebooks
@Jimfam
@BloomsburyBooks
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This is obviously not a big deal in the scheme of things but I was awarded a John R Murray creative writing fellowship in the British School at Rome for the whole of March, which would have been my first residency, and it now seems unlikely I will be able to go and that is sad.
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finished copies of my book arrived today! Thank you everyone
@PushkinPress
for making her so beautiful ! 💖
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I spoke to Maggie Lange
@nytimes
about my book Small Fires which is out today in the US
Maggie had such great questions that I really had to think hard about – the best kind!
@PushkinPress
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Such a great essay up on the role of Pizza Express in regional towns, its design history and legacy - superb, by Digby Warde-Aldam and such an on point illustration by Sinjin Lee
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Today is my birthday and I am eating Italian chocolate chip buns (pan goccioli) in bed and going for a picnic in a park later ☺️
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We need state control and distribution of food ASAP. Panicked people in their 70s and 80s are filling supermarkets where social distancing is impossible. Some people can’t get the food they need. It’s a disgrace, the government has has weeks and weeks to plan for this.
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I wrote an essay about cooking as thinking for
@FTMag
and they commissioned a beautiful illustration to go with it 🍝
@PushkinPress
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It’s insane that there are shareholders for water companies ..even by their rules, there is no ‘market’ - you can’t switch water company… and they do not act in the public interest but in the interest of profit so we get shitty rivers that make people ill
"This is a cruel joke. The government is going to hike water bills to pay for cleaning up the mess made by water companies. The same companies who awarded their executives multimillion-pound bonuses this year and paid out over £1bn to their shareholders."
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My first newsletter post!
A Meal is a Composition
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I miss the old, longer version of Felicity Cloake’s column ‘how to cook the perfect’ with all of the detailed discussion of different recipe writers’ rationales. I learned more and it left the reader the choice to try the variations.
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Just been made aware of this lovely piece about Nigella in Vogue by Liam Hess on
@senatormayukh
Insta, whose forthcoming book on how immigrant women cooks shaped American food I’m excited to read. V happy to get a shout out along with
@demarionunn
& Mayukh
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Macaroni and lasagna pies from the all night pie shop in Leith are some of the best things I have eaten ever ever. The seasoning!! & so moist! My god. 🥧🥧🥧🥧🥧
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Ahh there is a really nice review of Small Fires in the Sunday Times?!! illustrated with the beautiful visage of Nigella in the online version (I write about the gift of Nigella’s work in the book) and they republished the recipe that I wrote about!! Wild!
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Small Fires is officially published today!
Huge thanks to everyone at
@PushkinPress
for all the support and work to get to this point 💖💖💖 and here I am signing stock at
@DauntBooksPub
!
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‘
#CookJan
is my response to diet culture. It’s my antidote to the New Year New You bullshit. It’s a community to hide in, to dilute the inevitable swell of fatphobia and disordered eating that plagues us in January.’
I love
#CookJan
and
@alicemjslater
🥘🍝🧆🍲🍰
Last year, I wrote about what
#cookjan
means to me during a pandemic and it still rings true today. Read it if you like 🖤
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Best endorsement I ever had 💘
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If anyone is stuck inside and doesn’t know what to cook send me an email with your ingredients - l also happy to talk on the phone if you want johnson.rebeccamay
@gmail
.com
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Restaurant workers need to unionise SO BADLY
Hi
@wahaca
just eaten in your Kentish Town restaurant for the last time.
Ppl next to us left without paying and their server is made to foot the bill from his wages. Apparently company policy. Utterly shameful employment practice.
Food's great, company is crap.
@thomasinamiers
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Did the first reading from my first book !! Ty
@GrantaMag
Met some really lovely people irl for the first time and loved the other readings. 💯 would do again.
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my recent and seemingly effective method to deal with morning dread is to read as soon as i wake up, which slows my mind down and stops anxious flitting from thing to thing, and/or doom-scrolling
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Love to see Andi Oliver interject to state that Marie Stopes was a eugenicist after two chefs on Great British Menu blithely cite her as the inspo for their dishes
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less talk about banning food, more talk about providing food imho
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I am on strike 🪧 as a university lecturer on an hourly paid contract - against pension cuts, low pay, precarious contracts and excessive workloads. I do not receive sick pay, have very few rights, the work required to do my lecturing is grossly out of kilter with the hourly rate
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Has someone written a thinkpiece on how the word/concept of 'kindness' is being used to silence people who need to speak angrily and loudly about their oppression? It seems to go hand in hand with the Tory party insistence on remaining polite in the face of barbarism.
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.
@sophie_____d
took my pic! I find it v hard to be photographed, thank you Sophie for making it nice!! ❤️
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Yay my allotment essay is in the top 10 most read essays on Granta this year!
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i will browse my favourite local charity shop with the greatest tenderness next week
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canteen lunch at the British School at Rome! Feat rice with baby clams, mussels and squid and vegetables, with rolls then coffee ❤️
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Here is the finished book in all her splendour! Find me on p.69 oi oi, writing about Cher in the film Mermaids, Ursula Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction and finger food. With a lovely quotation from
@NigelSlater
on the cover. Out beginning of October
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Great (and overdue) piece about what Jonathan
@demarionunn
has done with
@Vittles
these past two years, opening up food writing to new voices and perspectives in a huge way (& paying fairly!!) by
@sarahmanavis
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I don’t really watch sport but seeing Gareth Southgate answer Qs it is such a relief to see a British man on TV who is not a grandstanding dickhead & also who seems to refuse hero narratives
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Wish there were a critical discursive culture for recipe books-which, like other literary forms, embody different styles.Ppl get angry if a cookbook does not meet every demand, rather than seeing their boundaries as a creative decision by the author, who has a right to authorship
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just to say i could not have written my book without studying a german literature degree which I fucking loved and which changed my life and i curse the tories plan to make arts and humanities education inaccessible to all but the richest
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OK having seen the Florence Pugh Vogue cooking video my new goal is to turn Small Fires into a coming of age via cooking /dancing screenplay and have her play the main character aka me
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It’s my birthday and we are going to get some wood so I can build a raised bed for herbs on the allotment then Sam is making me lasagna and green salad ❤️
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A relation just messaged me to say they saw my book in today’s
@ObsNewReview
- which I didn’t believe at first as it’s not out for a month but it’s true! So happy !✨✨✨
@PushkinPress
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@jeremycorbyn
What about serious Paternity leave?! Men being facilitated to do more childcare would make a huge difference to most of my friends
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tfw you get a dream job...
Lots of big news today. First of all Season 6 of Vittles will be “Food and the Arts” and edited by
@rebeccamjohnson
,
@demarionunn
and Sharanya Deepak. A full pitching guide can be found here
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A 10/10 and really well priced lunch at Osteria Le Putrelle in Turin where we stopped off on the train back from Rome. I now worship at the altar of silken pumpkin sformato with taleggio sauce 🧡
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The best food writers want socialism and trans liberation don't @ me I don't make the rules (tfw having spent an evening with
@racheleats
enthusing about
@shonfaye
's 'The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice' & how she has given it to everyone in her family) <3 <3 <3
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I had the best chair for my book event last night!
@demarionunn
was so wonderful
(pic
@dearlucy
)
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!! someone on instagram just told me they made friends with someone else on the train because they were reading my book and that is just the coolest thing*
*sorry for being cringe 😭
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Big day for me! A chapter of Small Fires is extracted in the new issue of
@GrantaMag
and it just arrived in the post - thrilled to be alongside so many writers I admire
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a tiny achievement is that today I finished the 2015 Adriene 30 days of yoga that I started in May last year, which is the most self-directed exercise/the most yoga I have ever done
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I cannot emphasise this enough: Claudia Roden's Book of Jewish Food is a work of genius. It took her 16 years to research and is full of the most affordable, delicious and simple recipes to be found:
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Marugame again yesterday for a
@vittlesmagazine
gossip after Jonathan’s launch - for the last few weeks any time I am tired and hungry I have headed straight there; I feel less stressed coming into london knowing I can get broth + noodles and sweet potato tempura for under £10
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Last night was *so* wonderful!
@racheleats
is one of my favourite people to speak to, so to be in conversation about Small Fires at the gorgeous
@Dauntbooks
in Marylebone was a dream. Thanks for your thoughtful engagement with the book Rachel, & Daunt, & everyone who came! ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
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working on finishing the proposal for book 2 before giving birth in c. a month // a truly tangible deadline !
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Everyone deserves education for its own sake / for life / for joy / for liberation >
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For me this year has mostly been about Small Fires ❤️🔥
thanks to everyone who has supported the book with blurbs, reading, reviews, bookselling, events and more - it has meant so much
📸 from my publication day visit to Fischers for an 11am sausage
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It's publication day for 'In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life'! I had so much fun writing my essay 'Against Roast Chicken: An Hors d'oeuvres Theory of Cooking' about the film Mermaids, finger foods and freedom – out now
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Doing a thread of my canteen meals during a month in the British School at Rome
canteen lunch at the British School at Rome! Feat rice with baby clams, mussels and squid and vegetables, with rolls then coffee ❤️
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ok my book is on
@OprahDaily
?!!
Small Fires by
@rebeccamjohnson
is 'slim, spicy, genre-defining work' according to
@OprahDaily
!!!
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