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Julia Tausch
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Fiction & food writer. Cat lover. Friendly mold enthusiast. Here is my newsletter about some of that stuff: tausch.substack.com
You guys are not ready for my mulberry content this year. ✌️
April 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Good morning, I have a honker about writing process for you today if you like that sort of thing, and if you don't, there's also a bunch of pics of French pastries I've veganized over the last month, some beautiful, some burnt to an absolute crisp! ✌️
The Puddling & the Press-down, Part 1
Maruary 2025
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April 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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This week, I wrote about being a food writer but not selling a cookbook. www.aliciakennedy.news/p/on-not-wri...
On Not Writing a Cookbook
Rejection is protection.
www.aliciakennedy.news
March 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Here's my monthly update (ok, 3 months this time) on what I've been writing, reading, and eating, featuring silly writerly angst along the St. Lawrence River, Murderbot diaries, @pas-mal.bsky.social's hilarious All You Can Kill, grief, and the pleasant burn of spicy tofu in Toronto’s East Chinatown.
Dark Winter, Little Lights
November 2024-January 2025
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February 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
My latest newsletter is about how I use tofu to veganize fish recipes. Fun, right?? I've shared what I think are some good techniques and ideas, and I hope they inspire you in some way to use soy instead of sea creatures in your next meal. ✌️
The role of fish will now be played by tofu
Easy vegan dinner ideas!
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February 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Hi I'm just here to brag about this vegan beancurd breakfast sandwich I made yesterday with mushroom "bacon" and green onions, truly blew my own mind, okay bye!
January 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Vegan thumbprint variations: candied cherries and Campari clementines; cranberry and clementine curds; Jaguar chocolate (made from naturally blonde cacao!). The base is whipped shortbread, some made with coconut oil, some unrefined canola. It's a real R&D cookie season for me this year!
December 9, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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baby's first cross-lamination... vegan and all king arthur climate blend
December 3, 2024 at 10:50 AM
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Slowly making headway on my enriched breads to-do list for the book. Today's is an olive oil brioche de Nanterre.
December 3, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Building on last week's vegan pastry cream recipe, I made two types of berry curd -- seabuckthorn and mulberry -- for the grand finale tartlets for my Great Canadian Baking Show but Vegan challenge. Turned out great! Here is the recipe! I think this curd would be rad with all sorts of fruit!
Summer-in-December Berry Tarts
The Great Canadian Baking Show But Vegan Finale!
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December 3, 2024 at 9:52 PM
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Timing is everything - Got 🥛?
Bird flu, a virus that can also affect humans, has been discovered in a batch of raw milk sold in California store refrigerators, state regulators said Sunday.

It comes just a few days after a child tested positive for bird flu for the first time in U.S. history.
Bird flu detected in raw milk sold at California store
The H5N1 virus was found in a sample of unpasteurized milk at a store, prompting a recall of one batch. Health agencies have warned against the growing dietary fad.
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November 25, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Here’s a vegan pastry cream recipe for your holiday and/or self-soothing needs! It has a “secret ingredient” that I would love more people to try in their vegan baking! open.substack.com/pub/tausch/p...
Vegan Pastry Cream!
Can you guess the secret ingredient?
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November 25, 2024 at 6:43 PM
This is quite possibly my best and most service-oriented work to date, on making vegan macarons * casually *: open.substack.com/pub/tausch/p...
November 18, 2024 at 2:37 PM
This book is so wild and good and is starting to make me feel like I have a real stick up my butt for choosing between first and third person when you can actually switch mid-sentence if you’re cool enough?!? 🤯
November 15, 2024 at 3:19 AM
October update: mainly about how much fun I’ve been having writing my novel, so if you’re having a hard time with a novel stay away! (or hate read? I won't judge, I've been there!)
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Break 👏Into👏Three👏
October 2024 & Bake Off Challenge Week Five
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November 14, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
November 6, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Bluesky fermentation hive? Do you exist? I'm liveblogging KojiCon, the loveliest virtual conference on mold-based ferments. Follow along if you like? Today is Day 3! I'm sharing loose thoughts on the presentations, as well as ferments I make along the way! tausch.substack.com/p/kojicon-li...
KojiCon Liveblog Day 3
February 21st 2024
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February 21, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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It's a diet called 'Universal Healthcare + closely interconnected multigenerational community'
lol
February 3, 2024 at 4:03 AM
I love taking a random Wednesday off sometimes to just clear the decks and write all day. I used to hoard my vacation days and only take a full week at a time, but I find a Big Wednesday can do a lot for me, especially in the winter. Friday is good too sure, but I like the middleness of Wednesday.
February 1, 2024 at 3:49 PM
I’m veganizing all the NYT Cooking Cookie Week cookies because I love myself and you! Follow along on my newsletter if you like, kicking things off with an @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social - inspired butter recipe! ❤️🍪
At Least It's Cookie Week
A delightfully unhinged, ever-evolving compendium of vegan cookie tips! Hopefully!
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December 4, 2023 at 1:12 PM
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Octopus burrows are more complicated than expected, with multiple breathing holes and even a lounge.
Written by Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

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November 22, 2023 at 10:54 PM
It's my first novel's 20th birthday and I'm celebrating by having a book sale and publishing an excerpt from my brand new book-in-progress! Get into it!
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October 23, 2023 at 2:00 PM
I veganized Alison Roman's Tomato Tart from Sweet Enough using doenjang (one of my very fave ferments these days!) in place of parmesan. Here's more on that plus a recipe to do it yourself!
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Another Year, Another Tomato Tart!
I veganized Alison Roman's with a doenjang assist
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August 26, 2023 at 5:41 PM
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Best Microfiction is here! Please help spread the word! 🙂🙂🙂
August 25, 2023 at 12:46 PM