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4 years

Costa v our local independent. I find this cheering.

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so, so moved by this photograph and by #patrickhutchinson 's words and actions Black Lives Matter hero is grandfather who said 'I just did what I had to do'

Black Lives Matter hero is grandfather who said 'I just did what I had to do'

Patrick Hutchinson said he acted instinctively to save a life and urged people to unite against racism

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I won an award. I never win awards. And from @guildoffinefood 😊means so much.

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The #GreatTasteAwards #GoldenFork for Contribution to Fine Food goes to @xantheclay who has been an iconic and trusted voice in the world of food and drink for the past 20 years

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Jaffa Cakes on test.

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3 years

I made drawers out of sardine tins because I ❤️great packaging. Not finished yet but looking forward to putting, um, paper clips and stuff in them.

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The brilliant women of Hubb Community Kitchen, winner of @AndreSimonAward Special Commendation for Together - superb book

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2 years

Testing time for tinned toms

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10 months

Hospital vending machine. Only food or drink available in A&E (apart from a free water fountain, tbf). Makes me sad.

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3 years

Did I buy too many 😬? #Moscow

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4 years

Comparing the flavours of all six British deer - mad we give them all the same name, venison. From the left: muntjac, Chinese water deer, roe, sika, fallow, red. Been wanting to do this for years. Thank you so much Mike and Gavin at the Elder.

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8 years

Feeding a young kangaroo at The Kangaroo Sanctuary in Alice Springs. Great set up for rescued roos. #ntaustralia

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4 years

22 years writing about food and I still can't spell brocolli

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5 years

I’ve been writing for @Telegraph for 20 years now: a huge honour. My editors have been- every one - supportive, inspiring &(especially) patient. 🙏Rachel Simhon, Belinda Richardson, Casilda Grigg, Jon Stock, @KylieOBrien1 @ccAndrewBaker @paul1davies @AmzBryant Olivia Walmsley ❤️

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2 years

Chickpeas on trial

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4 years

Is there an opportunity here, to get the nation cooking and eating lunch together? Simple quick meals, given parents are mostly wfh. Food boxes for those eligible for free school meals, available to buy for everyone else. A daily tv slot - the Jo Wicks of food.

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3 years

Scored in the ⁦ @salvationarmyuk ⁩ shop today. Well pleased. 🥬

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5 years

Lovely to hear @BootstrapCook on @BBCr4today talking tinned food. If there is one thing that is REALLY worth buying now it is her book Tin Can Cook.

Tin Can Cook : 75 Simple Store-cupboard Recipes

Simple and affordable cooking, Tin Can Cook takes it back to the basics: making great-tasting food with ordinary and budget-friendly ingredients. Winner of the OFM Best Food Personality ...

www.hive.co.uk

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6 years

Congratulations to the fabulous @DianaHenryFood for winning the @AndreSimonAward Food Book of the Year. “A book to treasure in the kitchen and the bedroom” said assessor @meerasodha and I know just what she means.

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2 years

What is it with jugs? Never met one I didn’t want.

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4 years

Here's a thought. Ask @morrisons to make up the school lunch boxes. This one costs £30.

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1 year

First 20 fish fingers tasting is GO - results in ⁦ @TelegraphFood ⁩ soon

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2 years

The tablets on the left cost 4.1p each. The ones on the right cost 30p each (22p on offer). How much better do the pricey ones have to be to be worth it? Testing for ⁦ @Telegraph ⁩ , results soon. (PS what’s the worst thing to shift in the dishwasher? Tea stains in mugs?)

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1 year

Living the dream. Tomato soup tasting for @TelegraphFood

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3 years

Supermarkets. Garlic does not require a net bag.

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4 years

And I’m done. #couchto5k complete. Red face nicely accessorised by sexy hi vis vest.

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6 years

Angela Hartnett is one of the most amazing chefs on the planet and bloody good company too - and she’s the new columnist for @Telegraph - here’s the inside track.

Meet The Telegraph's new food writer: Angela Hartnett prepares a late-summer Italian menu at home

When it comes to cooking, Angela Hartnett is not just another chef.

www.telegraph.co.uk

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4 years

If you need me in the next two hours I’M IN A RESTAURANT HAVING LUNCH

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2 years

Apparently I’m eating all the pies. Mince pies on test for ⁦ @TelegraphFood ⁩

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4 years

Test results back with great efficiency ( 👏👏👏 @NHSuk ) - Negative 👍 thank you all for asking 🙏❤️

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2 years

Testing testing. You may not want to join me in the lift for the next couple of days.

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5 years

One of the highlights of my career

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5 years

Been hot here in Kent.

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5 years

Today in ⁦ @Telegraph ⁩ ⁦ @TelegraphFood ⁩ I’m on about grass fed, why it matters and why your meat and dairy might not be getting as much of the green stuff as you think.

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4 years

Morning Bristol. Driving off to the vaccination hub. I don’t know a single person who wouldn’t be volunteering if they could so I feel very lucky. Also, pretty bloody exciting to be out.

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4 years

So Bristol restaurants were allowed to open last Saturday for the first time since the November lockdown. They brought back staff, bought in supplies, got back from a standing start. Now they have to close from Boxing Day (so effectively from tomorrow 10pm). Gutted for them.

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5 years

So this evening I ended my term as President of @GuildFoodWriter . Thank you all for having me: it's been an honour to work with both big names and also - especially - the unsung heroes of food writing. I salute you. Over and out.

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4 years

Supreme damson clafoutis ⁦ @parkersarms ⁩ , where there is none of this “cream or ice cream?” nonsense. Served with pouring cream AND thick home cultured cream AND damson ice cream.

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2 years

Mayo on test. Some of these were plain disgusting

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4 years

Menu from my first trip to @TheFatDuckBray maybe 20 years ago. £55 for three courses including coffee.

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4 years

Thinking of friends in Northern Ireland. It's one of my favourite places in the world, full of funny, savvy, determined, kind and opinionated people, who (by the way) make fantastic food too. I can't wait to go back.

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4 years

This is SO bloody exciting @chefcalum

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4 years

Ikea Cafe 2020. The Brutalist approach.

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4 years

On a train that goes to Shoeburyness which is my new name for the bottom of the wardrobe.

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3 years

Morels at £41/kg at Budapest market. Seriously considering filling my boots.

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4 years

Yes. Venison suet pudding by the fire. Best chips in Christendom. At @DogandGunSkeltn Cumbria, where they know how to live.

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When you see who you’re sitting opposite at dinner 😮🥰

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4 years

RIP Katharine Whitehorn. Defender of the domestic slut, writer of Cooking in a Bedsitter (still 👌) and one of my heroes.

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5 years

I just don’t get it. “Avoid pubs, bars and restaurants,” says Boris. Please mate, end the uncertainty and close them if it is imperative.

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1 year

Blind yeast extract tasting 😶😛

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1 year

Love the rear window quality of theatre boxes

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3 years

So good to be here ⁦ @oxbelfast ⁩ #northernireland

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6 months

Testing lasagne for my ⁦ @TelegraphFood ⁩ column. Some mingers in here, but a couple that’d make a great supper.

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9 months

Here’s the antidote to that junk food hospital vending machine I posted about. On Exeter Station ⁦ @PenguinUKBooks ⁩ 👏👏👏(nice selection of classics and pop too)

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4 years

We need to get used to paying a deposit when we book a restaurant.

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4 tables of 2 not shown tonight. I am leaning towards using this building for a different purpose 🤷🏻‍♂️

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1 year

Vanilla ice cream on test. Very happy here.

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2 years

Hullo instant coffee testing

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4 years

Basically living for the next episode of #Americast right now. When @maitlis referred to Lady Gaga’s Lady Hale brooch 👌*nailed it*

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3 years

Current mood

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6 years

On my way to the BBC with wet hair, no make up and covered in cat hair. Love radio.

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3 years

Ranting about Ultra Processed Fpod today in @TelegraphFood - there’s more to said about how UPF has weaselled its way into our lives, but here’s a start.

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3 years

I’m not against vegan meat - but don’t call it healthy.

Why vegan meat substitutes can be worse for your diet than junk food

It’s possible to eat a healthy vegan diet, but many of the new meatless options aren’t healthy at all

www.telegraph.co.uk

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4 years

I have just dragged the juicer down from the top of the cupboards, &performed a full clean, in order to create 4tsp lovage juice. Peak middle class lockdown.

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5 years

Bank Holiday fridge clear out ( #myglamorouslife ) : I have 7 different types of tahini (representing the Lebanon, Turkey, West Bank and Israel), 8 varieties of nut/seed oils, and approx 9000 kinds of chilli product. This is normal right?

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10 months

So sad to hear the news about Bill Granger. A genuinely lovely man, who helped us all eat more joyfully. Thinking of his family.

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1 year

Someone’s got to do it… taste testing for ⁦ @TelegraphFood ⁩

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5 years

No. Not allowed.

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4 years

do you know someone who has volunteered, cooked for neighbours, or otherwise done FOOD GOOD in their postcode over the past 12 months? I'd love to hear about them - small scale heroes welcome. For a piece. DMs open. Thank you twitter. 🙏

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6 years

I just had dinner at a diplomatic residence with eight ambassadors, then danced at Annabel’s, and now I’m on a megabus. Love my life.

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5 years

Carnivores: while I'm in grumpy ranty mood, can we stop calling people who eat a mixed diet "carnivores"? They are omnivores. Thank you.

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3 years

I really hate skid marks on plates

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Mum just got back from holiday and she showed me this picture from a certain two Michelin starred restaurant. I think Picasso is back from the dead guys…

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2 years

In @Telegraph today: me on how supermarkets trade on their reputation for low prices - then hoick them up when we use their smaller shops. @TelegraphFood

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2 years

Clearing out spice shelves and find I have, yet again, been panic buying cumin

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5 years

Have restaurant reservations. Want to go, want to support restaurants. Am I wrong?

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5 years

“We’ve already got a psychopath in the woods” woman opposite me on the train is telling her companion *tunes in* . . . Oh. It’s a “cyclepath” *tunes out*

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2 years

Is there any bit of crockery more annoying than ramekins? Used once a year, don’t stack properly, take up disproportionate amount of space, don’t quite match but not in a cool way. (Moved on to cupboard organisation)

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5 years

Cracking lunch at Flor in @boroughmarket today. Rabbit kidneys, prawn heads, clam flatbread, anchovy lardo toast, Neapolitan ice cream (verbena, peach and tayberry).

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Right. Starting gun for the Election Night Party has fired. I need your political food puns. Can’t remember who suggested Keir Shawarma 🙌🙏last time but it’s definitely on the menu again.

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11 months

Utterly shocked and devastated to hear the news about Russell Norman. Thinking of his family.

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3 years

Back on volunteer duty. #groundhogday

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4 years

Helping with Covid-19 vaccines today 👍

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8 months

So sad to hear the news about Dave Myers. I met him a few times, and interviewed him. He was both kind and intelligent, genuinely warm and open, devoid of celebrity veneer. I liked and respected him. A true enthusiast.

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2 years

Ketchup on test. 🍅

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6 years

I am writing about ice cream which is basically licence to eat it 10 times a day. At least. Right?

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4 years

Traffic jam, Bristol fashion

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4 years

As a soft Southerner, this is rather an exciting outing @BoothsCountry

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4 years

When you open a bottle of @MossgielFarm full fat milk ❤️with Rabbie Burns on the bottle

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4 years

A big Christmas thank you to Alan from @RSPCA_official who just brought our very bedraggled Andromeda home 😻after she apparently spent Christmas stuck on a flat roof.

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4 years

My nephew (aged 4) drew a lion all by himself. Proud.

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4 years

Cheese vending machine ⁦ @CourtyardDairy ⁩ ♥️

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3 years

I’m going in

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4 years

do you remember about 1998 when everything came with goat's cheese? 2021 is shaping up to be the Year of Feta.

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4 years

Could someone please call me now just so I can say “I’m on the train” really loudly

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2 years

Hot Staffordshire oat cake straight off the griddle in Stoke on Trent. You can keep your caviar guys.

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5 years

Hate going to a hotels and finding the “super king bed” is in fact two singles zipped together with horrible ridge down the middle. Is that just me? (I do understand why they do it)

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Irene, you rock.