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Christie Dietz
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Germany-based freelance journalist (Nat Geo Traveller Food, Food & Travel, Gastro Obscura, Pit etc) • IACP award winner • Intl Coordinator, Guild of Food Writers • http://christiedietz.de • Train travel | Regional German food | Wine village life 🇬🇧🇩🇪
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A thread of upcoming food books:

1. Fat + Flour: The Art of a Simple Bake by Nicole Rucker, out April
a bright pink cover with a photo of three piles of cookies
February 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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I love @archive.org ! It’s a fantastic resource for old cookbooks!
archive.org Internet Archive @archive.org · Nov 28
Chef Auguste Escoffier’s "Le Guide Culinaire" (1903) is a cornerstone of culinary arts, but "The Thanksgiving Cook Book" (1911) strays from tradition. Instead of turkey, stuffing & pie, his menu features rabbit, ragout & crawfish! 🦃🥧

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Cover of Auguste Escoffier's 1911 "The Thanksgiving Cook Book." The cover text reads, "The Thanksgiving Cook Book by A. Escoffier, the Greatest of the French Chefs. Special supplement of the Sunday American."
November 29, 2024 at 7:27 AM
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The Christmas sausages have arrived at our village butcher. Let the festivities begin.
Neat rows of packaged sausages under a glass counter. From left to right, there are salami and thin meatloaf slices packed in transparent plastic, then sausage-shaped packages in bright orange with a colourful illustration of two dancing children and the words, „Fleischwurst für Kinder“ in red italic writing. Next to these are individual salamis the same size as the orange ones but this time wrapped in gold plastic decorated with sprigs of holly and Father Christmas; and lastly is pink spreadable raw minced pork and onions, again in a sausage shape, wrapped in clear plastic with „Frische Zwiebel Mettwurst“ written on them in blue italics. These are all stacked together in one metal tray.
November 29, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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Some absolute monster radishes in our veg box delivery today.
Close up on the inside of a green plastic crate, the bottom of which is lined with white paper. The crate has in it (as visible in the picture) three red apples, two pears, seven carrots with their tops taken off and six huge red radishes. Two of them, balanced on the pears, are about the size and shape of two medium-sized narrow sweet potatoes. White fingers holding up a very large, pinkish-red radish the size of a sweet potato. In the background is the green crate with fruit and veg in as described in the previous picture.
November 28, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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I see Worms is giving Oxford Street a run for its money again this year.
A small, bushy and not very Christmas tree-shaped Christmas tree tied to a lamppost on a pedestrianised shopping street. It has large gold bows rather haphazardly attached to some of its branches.
November 23, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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More cookbook reading, this time festive…
November 23, 2024 at 9:15 AM
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I enjoy reading about cookbooks almost as much as I enjoy reading cookbooks. Can’t wait to get stuck into this with a cup of tea later @dorothy-porker.com.
November 22, 2024 at 12:27 PM
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For the Czech speakers amongst you: my Nat Geo Traveller Food (UK autumn issue) feature about the day I spent gawping at mountains and eating Käsknöpfle with the delightful Kerber family in Schaan, Liechtenstein, has been translated for the Czech edition... tinyurl.com/59p6my9t
National Geographic | Výhled na Alpy a omamná vůně jídla: Rodina z Lichtenštejnska vás zve ke stolu, dnes se vaří käsknöpfle
National Geographic - Rodinná hostina v malém evropském knížectví Lichtenštejnsko, které leží mezi švýcarskými a rakouskými Alpami, zahrnuje farmářské produkty, místní víno a domácí pečivo slazené ovo...
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November 22, 2024 at 11:56 AM
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There are already many excellent travel writer starter packs circulating but I thought I'd make a Europe-specific one so that colleagues new to Bluesky can see some local faces in their feed. Do share – and though it's nowhere near finished yet, do DM me if I've missed you! go.bsky.app/2bgQ6UY
November 21, 2024 at 3:44 PM
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This year’s Xmas baking plans:
1) sausage rolls with an Hungarian twist - caraway & paprika are involved.
2) rum soaked fruit cake.
3) lemon iced ginger biscuits.

What are you making?
a man in a chef 's hat sits at a table with a large piece of bread
Alt: The muppets’ Swedish chef is throwing flour at a table with a large piece of bread
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November 20, 2024 at 9:04 AM
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Morning all. The skies have cleared, the paths are muddy and covered in leaves, it’s 2 degrees and our heating’s gone wrong (annual tradition). Would love to see what it looks like where you are?
A view straight down between two rows of almost completely bare vines. The ground is very green and lush and grassy, the sky is a hazy grey-blue and partially clear, with a thick dark grey band of cloud on the horizon. At the very end of the two vines, where they almost meet in the distance, is one of those tall wooden structures used by hunters for shooting deer. A cobbled winding path full of yellow leaves flanked by two steep banks covered in various bushes and more yellow leaves. There are tall spindly mostly-naked trees obscuring the sky, which is cloudy with small patches of bright blue.
November 20, 2024 at 8:07 AM
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It’s forecast to be wet and miserable again today and snowing by the end of the week, so here’s a throwback to the last time the sun came out two and a half weeks ago.
A view over vineyards, the rows of vines stretching away from the camera, sloping gently downwards. The vine leaves are golden yellow, in the very distance is the blue silhouette of some low mountains, and there are some twigs in the foreground that slightly obscure the picture. The sky is pale blue, with some small wispy grey and white clouds and contrails. A picture of two rows of vines taken from the end of the row. The ground is very grassy and the vines partially bare with the remaining leaves green and yellow. The sky is pale blue, with some wispy clouds in. A green, grassy path with dark green bushes and trees on the left and a steep slope on the left that’s also covered in plants and bushes. Some of the leaves in the foreground are yellow.
November 19, 2024 at 6:17 AM
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We are literally 8 subscribers away from hitting our 2024 target.

This means we are 8 Patreon supporters away from upping our commissioning rates!

LET'S DO THIS

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November 16, 2024 at 3:25 PM
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I remember being in a school play about the Channel Tunnel when they began digging it seven (?) years earlier. For reasons that remain unclear nearly four decades on, I played a parrot. (Many thanks to my mum for my excellent costume.)
marktewdwr-jones.bsky.social Mark Tewdwr-Jones @marktewdwr-jones.bsky.social · Nov 15
It’s 30 years since the 1st public passenger trains ran through the Channel Tunnel. Let’s turn back the clock to the late 80s and remember the optimism, particularly from British Rail at the time, of freight & passenger services connecting from right across Britain. A BR newspaper advert from 1989
November 16, 2024 at 1:21 PM
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Hope this list is shareable. My travel tribe is taking a while to find itself on Bluesky, but I've come with an initial list of travel writers, editors, bloggers and website owners. I'm sure I've left some out, so let me know.

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November 14, 2024 at 11:24 AM
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I've compiled a food media/ food feed starter pack and I'm keen to add to it.

go.bsky.app/TT9fp7G
November 8, 2024 at 7:54 AM
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@mallikabasu.bsky.social hello!!
November 15, 2023 at 7:15 AM
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Today I learned of the existence of the mini kiwi. Small, fuzz-free and mild in flavour - though Google tells me they should be acidic and sweet. These ones are from Baden-Württemberg. Immediately tempted to buy myself a plant for the garden.
A cardboard punnet of smooth green kiwis the size of very large grapes A white hand holding a halved mini kiwi open above the cardboard punnet of mini kiwis
October 3, 2023 at 4:59 PM
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In my latest newsletter, I've reviewed German Baking by Jürgen Krauss and framed this against the background of competitive baking shows.

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The cover of German Baking. Gold and white text against a dramatic black background. Shining from the centre of the cover is a golden burnished pretzel scattered with rock salt
October 3, 2023 at 8:56 AM
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Hello there, all other people on here. I shall move on to niche German food tweets in due course, but a picture of a cat - the very best cat - feels like a fairly solid way to begin.
A tabby cat curled up on an old chair upholstered in very similar colours. The cat is half upside down with its legs hanging off the seat, but she’s fast asleep and looks incredibly comfortable.
September 22, 2023 at 6:37 PM