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Ned Palmer
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Author of A Cheesemonger's Tour de France, A Cheesemonger's Compendium & A Cheesemonger's History of the British Isles. Private and corporate cheese tastings. "The UK's greatest authority on cheese" (Tom Watson) https://www.cheesetastingco.uk/
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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · Nov 26
Cheesemongers of the UK! You can buy A Cheesemongers Tour direct from me. Signed 1st ed hardback copies, feel the benefit! DMs are open!
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I had a GREAT time on Joe’s podcast. Not least watching him eating cheese topless in his caravan.
cynthiaspickle.bsky.social cynthia’s voicebox @cynthiaspickle.bsky.social · 7d
Maybe Joe Marler should win The Traitors
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Irish stories, myths and legends are full of spirits and ghosts. The history of beer in Ireland is no different; many of these shadowy echoes are still reverberating in the modern brewing history.
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Filthy Queens - A History of Irish Beer & Women Brewers | The Delicious Legacy
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November 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Hello!
New episode is out for all to enjoy!
What is like to be a Greek chef, living and working in Helsinki? From Crete to Finland with Aino!
Lets find out...
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The Life of a Greco-Finnish Chef in Helsinki
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November 5, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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If anyone lost a bag of books from LRB Bookshop on the Metropolitan Line between Baker St- Watford, I handed it to a cleaner when the train terminated at Watford tube station. And if you have far more followers than me, please share this status. LRB bookshop is not cheap!
November 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Cheese! Specifically Shakespearean cheese, and the discussion thereof on Sam Bilton's brilliant podcast Comfortably Hungry.
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Food in Shakespeare: The Mystery Ingredient
with Victoria Gonzalez-Gordon, Jane Steward and Ned Palmer
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November 1, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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I'll be ok then!
deliciouslegacy.bsky.social The Delicious Legacy Podcast @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social · 14d
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euronews.com Euronews @euronews.com · 14d
Researchers found that regular cheese eaters were 24 per cent less likely to develop the condition over three years compared with non-cheese eaters.
October 31, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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We are awarding our President's Medal to 'In Our Time' as it has done so much to showcase humanities & social sciences. We'd decided this before the news of Melvyn Bragg stepping down, but glad we got our timing right & had a chance to celebrate with him!
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/renowne...
Renowned BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time receives prestigious British Academy President’s Medal for 2025
The British Academy has awarded its prestigious President’s Medal to the long-running and beloved BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time. Recognising its outstanding contribution to humanities and social s...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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So exciting!
October 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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4/x It's the foods, the dishes, the recipes that bring us together! These have no borders, and similar recipes have been shared by the Balkan people for generations across our modern borders! Here's some delicious stuff!
Credit: The Balkan Kitchen (Quadrille, 2024), Copyright: Photos Liz Seabrook.
Ajvar the delicious moreish spread of cooked roasted red peppers from North macedonia. Meat bourek. A pie to die for! Baked beans, the massive Prespa beans called giant beans in a traditional clay pot with red peppers and paprika! The street food of the bygone eras of the Balkans! Čevapčici (Kebačinja) basically finger thin meat patties, sort of long burgers served wirth bread ajvar and onion and whatever else you like to!
October 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Tuck into to @cheesetastingco.bsky.social's brie-lliant guide to the cheeses of France with #ACheesemongersTourDeFrance, out today in paperback 🇫🇷

Complete with tasting notes and serving suggestions, this is a must-read for the cheese lover in your life.

🧀: tinyurl.com/ACheesemongersTourDeFrancePB
A rectangular graphic with a cream background and a red and blue border. In the centre is the paperback book A Cheesemonger's Tour de France by Ned Palmer. The book is surrounded by red and blue illustrations of French cheese. The Profile Books logo is in the bottom, right-hand corner.
October 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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You don't have to like weird food to listen to the pod! we have plenty of episodes about beer/pubs, wine, spices, cheese; interviews with spectacularly knowledgeable guests, such as @goingmedieval.bsky.social @petebrownbeer.bsky.social @cheesetastingco.bsky.social @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social
darrenhayman.bsky.social Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · Sep 23
My own food weirdness might rule this out for me
September 23, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Thank you!
moali.bsky.social Mo Ali | مح علي @moali.bsky.social · Sep 19
If you're on LinkedIn, you'll probably want to switch this toggle to 'off'.
September 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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NUNS ON THE RUN!!!
onslies.bsky.social Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · Sep 13
YES LADIES, THIS IS THE WAY. Escape facilitated by former students to boot. 🥰

Fascinated by the Provost’s use of ‘health & safety’ concerns and depicting them as ‘fragile’ & in need of ‘professional help’ in order to deny them their convent. As if these ladies need to be told what’s good for them.
September 13, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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This month's Cheese of the Month: Single Gloucester: bit.ly/SingleGloucester
September 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Invitation to friends in the arts. I'm part of a group organizing a project called Fall of Freedom. We want artists and orgs of all kinds (whether you're an Indie bookstore, a cinema, gallery, whatever) to come together to resist authoritarianism. Starting November 21st...

www.falloffreedom.com
Fall of Freedom is an urgent call to the arts community to unite in defiance of authoritarian forces sweeping the nation. Our Democracy is under attack. Threats to free expression are rising. Dissent is being criminalized. Institutions and media have been recast as mouthpieces of propaganda. This Fall, we are activating a nationwide wave of creative resistance. Beginning November 21–22, 2025, galleries, museums, libraries, comedy clubs, theaters, and concert halls across the country will host exhibitions, performances, and public events that channel the urgency of this moment. Fall of Freedom is an open invitation to artists, creators, and communities to take part—and to celebrate the experiences, cultures, and identities that shape the fabric of our nation. Art matters. Artists are a threat to American fascism.
September 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Words of wisdom from the early modern Pamflyt Compiled of Cheese, now available in a new transcription online. This and other vital items of cheese news can be found in my new Substack series, Ned's Cheesy Nuggets. No. 1 out now: bit.ly/NedsNuggets
September 8, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Ned's Cheesy Nuggets, No 1: September 2025
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Ned's Cheesy Nuggets, No 1: September 2025
A regular round up of cheese news.
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September 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Morning all! Summer Burden open.substack.com/pub/wildiris...
Summer Burden
give away or give into
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August 27, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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A Day in the Life of a Freelance Cheesemonger
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A Day in the Life of a Freelance Cheesemonger
No. 1: A Visit to Paxton and Whitfields
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August 25, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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August 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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August 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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August 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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I've spent the past few months researching and writing (what I think is) the biggest pub guide ever published by a national newspaper (50,000 words!) - and today its been published! www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/best-...
The 500 best pubs in England
Use our tool to find the perfect pub nearest to you
www.telegraph.co.uk
July 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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August 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Cheesemonger's Odyssey, Cheese of the Month: Beemster's Gouda Selection. open.substack.com/pub/nedpalme...
August 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM