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And I’m also keen to alert you to this new edition of Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook
November 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
And I’m also keen to alert you to this new edition of Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook
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On 28th November I will be in conversation with @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social at Manningtree Arts
Local bookshops 💯💯💯 I am chatting to beloved @rachelaliceroddy.bsky.social at Manningtree Arts next month about cooking and writing and much more!
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Rachel Roddy | Manningtree Arts
Join acclaimed food writer Rachel Roddy to explore Italian cuisine, her award-winning books, and stories from Rome. Recipes, culture, and culinary inspiration await.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:41 AM
On 28th November I will be in conversation with @rebeccamayjohnson.bsky.social at Manningtree Arts
Wild foraged Dorset porcini pasta at the restaurant today.
September 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Wild foraged Dorset porcini pasta at the restaurant today.
Great night at the fabulous Marshwood Manor, Dorset last night with Rachel Roddy and Ilaria Padovani as they shared some regional Italian cuisine musings. The food and company was great too!
@rachelaliceroddy.bsky.social
mercatoitaliano.uk/italian-chee...
www.marshwoodmanor.co.uk
@rachelaliceroddy.bsky.social
mercatoitaliano.uk/italian-chee...
www.marshwoodmanor.co.uk
Our Story | Bridport Market | Pizzeria & Café | Italian Wholesale Supplier — Mercato Italiano
Ilaria’s relationships with the Italian producers and her skill of finding the highest quality produce led her to expand the Mercato Italiano business, supplying UK restaurants and cafes as a wholesal...
mercatoitaliano.uk
August 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Great night at the fabulous Marshwood Manor, Dorset last night with Rachel Roddy and Ilaria Padovani as they shared some regional Italian cuisine musings. The food and company was great too!
@rachelaliceroddy.bsky.social
mercatoitaliano.uk/italian-chee...
www.marshwoodmanor.co.uk
@rachelaliceroddy.bsky.social
mercatoitaliano.uk/italian-chee...
www.marshwoodmanor.co.uk
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"How do you get away with dropping your trousers, talking about your cock, then blaming neurodiversity? It’s sickening."
@maitlis.bsky.social and @jonsopel1.bsky.social react to the Gregg Wallace backlash after he blamed his autism for the 50+ allegations of inappropriate workplace behaviour.
@maitlis.bsky.social and @jonsopel1.bsky.social react to the Gregg Wallace backlash after he blamed his autism for the 50+ allegations of inappropriate workplace behaviour.
July 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
"How do you get away with dropping your trousers, talking about your cock, then blaming neurodiversity? It’s sickening."
@maitlis.bsky.social and @jonsopel1.bsky.social react to the Gregg Wallace backlash after he blamed his autism for the 50+ allegations of inappropriate workplace behaviour.
@maitlis.bsky.social and @jonsopel1.bsky.social react to the Gregg Wallace backlash after he blamed his autism for the 50+ allegations of inappropriate workplace behaviour.
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Very happy indeed to have a short story commissioned by the BBC! Broadcast 3.45pm July 11th, on Radio 4 and Sunday 13th at 11.45pm
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BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, Snowbirds and Coyotes by KM Elkes
After the death of her husband, Betty drives south from Ohio to the Arizona desert.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Very happy indeed to have a short story commissioned by the BBC! Broadcast 3.45pm July 11th, on Radio 4 and Sunday 13th at 11.45pm
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Sun's out, April edition is OUT! Go get yours at one of these stockists: westdorsetmag.co.uk/stockists or read online. Oh, and did we mention our NATIONAL AWARD? #newspaperawards #hyperlocal
April 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Sun's out, April edition is OUT! Go get yours at one of these stockists: westdorsetmag.co.uk/stockists or read online. Oh, and did we mention our NATIONAL AWARD? #newspaperawards #hyperlocal
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Hooray! We are in the finals of the 2025 Newspaper Awards! Second time lucky?
February 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Hooray! We are in the finals of the 2025 Newspaper Awards! Second time lucky?
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About as succinct as it gets
January 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
About as succinct as it gets
One of Suzie’s best
Word of the day is most definitely ‘hurkle-durkling’ (19th-century Scots): to linger in bed long after it’s time to get up.
December 30, 2024 at 5:37 PM
One of Suzie’s best
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I wrote this today about Christmas food being full of ghosts. Is it ok with Aunt Beat (dead, 1991) to not buy Colmans Bread Sauce? Will my dead father want this Dairy Milk? Is it ok to give myself a break? OF COURSE NOT. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Grace Dent’s joyeux Noël: ‘It’s time I made some new Christmas memories – in small, French steps’
No amount of joining the Christmas supermarket scrum will recreate the sight of my mam’s hands on the trolley
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November 29, 2024 at 1:07 PM
I wrote this today about Christmas food being full of ghosts. Is it ok with Aunt Beat (dead, 1991) to not buy Colmans Bread Sauce? Will my dead father want this Dairy Milk? Is it ok to give myself a break? OF COURSE NOT. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Childhood is a both a shared experience everyone understands, and yet our own childhoods are completely unique. My latest Substack post explores how this can be a rich source of inspiration for writers.
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Universal, yet unique – using childhood as inspiration
“Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.” ―Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose.
kmelkes.substack.com
November 24, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Childhood is a both a shared experience everyone understands, and yet our own childhoods are completely unique. My latest Substack post explores how this can be a rich source of inspiration for writers.
kmelkes.substack.com/p/universal-...
kmelkes.substack.com/p/universal-...