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Robert Alexander
@robmalexander.bsky.social
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Bakery R&D professional. Husband and father of four. Gastronome. Free thinker. Travel North America for work.
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Our brains love the colour gradation in rainbows, maybe due to our ancestors searching for sources of water. Looking at plants helps us recover from stress & looking at something we think is beautiful causes dopamine release.
I've posted this photo to alter your brain biochemistry for the better 🌿
An rainbow arrangement of garden flowers placed on white fabric
June 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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gastropoda.bsky.social
Actually the most dazzling course at #kabawa: bread course. Bridgetown flavors.
June 6, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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cookblog.bsky.social
Bordier butter with Espelette pepper beaten in. Freaking amazing! 🍽️🍜🧈🌶️
French butter that’s a deep pumpkin orange from the hot chile powder that’s been whipped into it
May 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Hometown hero.
March 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Heartbroken to learn about Pableaux Johnson’s death today. He was one of a kind, and he touched so many lives with his wonderful photography and humble offering of Red Beans and Rice. My sincere condolences to his community in New Orleans and beyond.
January 27, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Everyone knows the Washingon Post is in turmoil, bleeding subscribers, journalists, reader respect. But if the boss is asking how to attract Trump supporters that means self-respect is eroding too. For me, at least, that's a step further than I thought we were at. www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...
From an item by Ben Smith for Semafor. "The Post’s former deputy democracy editor, Mary Jo Murphy, quietly quit in response to owner Jeff Bezos killing its presidential endorsement. She wrote about it on a Facebook page for New York Times alumni: “Quislings are inside the house that Grahams and Bradlees, Woodwards and Bernsteins built.” She recalled that CEO Will Lewis had asked a reporter she managed “what the Post could do to attract Trump supporters.” ('I dunno,' she wrote, 'lie to them?'”)
January 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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ranchogordo.bsky.social
This is going to be a good follow. Besides all the great work he did in restaurants, with Edna, Lewis, with books, and more, he is the undisputed king of biscuits as far as I'm concerned. Plus cornbread plus chicken + dumplings plus any aspect of Southern cooking.
scottpeacock.bsky.social Scott Peacock @scottpeacock.bsky.social · Dec 8
Good Afternoon from Alabama, Biscuiteers and Biscuit Lovers!
December 8, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Pierre Jancou comes to Oakland’s Snail Bar. 🙇‍♂️ #cuisinevivant #vinvivant #morethanorganic #queduraisin vimeo.com/153733109 #daniellerubiproductions
November 26, 2024 at 11:17 PM
Opening night last week at Mozza DC. #focacciadirecco
November 21, 2024 at 3:49 AM
Was offered the opportunity to meet the inimitable Toni Tipton-Martin in Boston last night, along with Morgan Bolling. I left the event with two additional copies for gifts.
Firmly believe that people from all walks and experience levels will find this book inspiring.
nicmiller.bsky.social Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · Nov 4
Another November release steered into being by Toni Tipton- Martin which makes it essential IMO. She is just brilliant.
Cover of When Southern Women Cook: History, Lore, and 300 Recipes with Contributions from 70 Women Writers by America's Test Kitchen and Toni Tipton-Martin. It's a pleasant change to see an anthological book about southern women cooking that won't turn out to be just 'white southern women cooking'. This is a tour through the diverse culinary history of the South and its women with amazing recipes and words from 70 writers.
November 20, 2024 at 4:42 AM
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Back before the sourdough blob took over my life entirely, I also fancied myself a portrait photographer, and even found time to combine my two loves. This image of my friend Kerry Hanney (of Portland's Night Moves Bakery) was shot on 4x5 film, on a SpeedGraphic camera.
A black and white portrait of a woman in a floury black t-shirt, standing with her arms cradling a crusty loaf of bread), against a blurred bakery background. She's wearing a t-shirt that reads "how much bread a man eats," with a woodcut image of a tiny man standing next to a giant loaf of bread.
November 19, 2024 at 1:11 PM
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fine list: much to love here
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/t...
The 25 Most Influential Cookbooks From the Last 100 Years
Chefs, writers, editors and a bookseller gathered to debate — and decide — which titles have most changed the way we cook and eat.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2024 at 8:37 AM
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This performance of John McLaughlin's gorgeous melody "Lotus Feet" by John, Zakir Hussain, and Jean-Luc Ponty is utterly transcendent. The level of listening is intense. True inspiration. youtu.be/HDyfFNJGRDA?...
John McLaughlin, Jean-Luc Ponty, Zakir Hussain: "Lotus Feet" | International Jazz Day Istanbul
John McLaughlin (guitar), Jean-Luc Ponty (violin) and Zakir Hussain (tabla) perform McLaughlin's renowned composition "Lotus Feet" as part of the Internation...
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November 18, 2023 at 6:15 AM
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hels.bsky.social
Bsky still feels sort of like a private room so here’s a sincere and personal ask: In the last few weeks I’ve spoken to a few other parents of Jewish-Palestinian children and it’s been moving and meaningful for me. If you know any other families like mine, I’d love to know them too.
October 31, 2023 at 3:01 AM