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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 40m

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Sops and dripping (with a few more fats thrown in)

We came to St Mary’s church in the Suffolk village of Wood Ditton, searching for a particular gravestone and its epitaph to a local man described as a gourmand.

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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 42m

Forgive yourself. I have 😇😂

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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 42m

There's a gravestone with a sop cup attached plus a ditty about the perils of fat in a cemetery near Newmarket. I wrote about it years ago.

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Salute The Pig, by Chris Bulow @salutethepig.berlin · 1h

Long lasting than the tatty old bits of paper your nan left in the back of the Beaton recipe book...

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Recipes to die for: Rosie Grant catalogues recipes from gravestones in new cookbook

Some people treasure family recipes so much that they've etched the recipes into their gravestones.

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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 44m

Intriguing!

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Marie Antoinette portrait really her sister, Oxford study finds

Oxford researchers believe the painting is actually of the last queen of France's older sibling.

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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 1h

"What is it that you want from your waitress?"

Brilliant, @rachelhendry.bsky.social

Pellicle @pelliclemag.com · 1h

The Waitress, a million personas, fetishes and expectations in one woman. A look at what it means to serve, by @rachelhendry.bsky.social

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The Waitress — Pellicle

“The waitress is different; she is ignorant and coarse, but genial. She is often unwashed and her teeth are unfilled, but she knows life and she is not afraid of life, which is to her big, dramatic, b...

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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 1h

I'll post links and information (including a reading list) to my newsletter later.

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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 1h

Our guest on today's noon @suffolksound.bsky.social show is Carrie Fitton who will be talking about Indigenous food culture in Australia and the organisations promoting ethical post colonial tourism. I'll be discussing the history of Suffolk salt- and whelks!

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 17h

Final Destination had nothing on British public information films.

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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 3h

Jacob Rees Mogg sprang to mind and now I have to destroy my brain.

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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 10h

Nobody knows how the fried egg became an essential part of the Hawaiian hangover cure.

What We’re Cooking This Week: Smashburger Loco Moco with Miso Curry Gravy

Jim Dixon

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4h

‘You are constantly told you are evil’: inside the lives of diagnosed narcissists

Few psychiatric conditions are as stigmatised or as misunderstood as narcissistic personality disorder. Here’s how it can damage careers and relationships – even before prejudice takes its toll

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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 13h

My latest newsletter is up!

Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 1d

I've written about pumpkins, Halloween, Día de Muertos, and this year's mad themed food.

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It's so commercial now!

My personal take on Halloween and Día de Muertos, a prequel to a post about Halloween-themed cookbooks and food writing. I'd love you to subscribe to my newsletter; there's a link on the homepage. Ha...

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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 13h

I will have to make it because there's no chance of buying it here

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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 14h

"It’s also Miami’s greatest contribution to the American casserole canon. But make no mistake, arroz imperial is no dump and bake slop."

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Arroz Imperial and the Taste of Regret — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 14h

The mastery of artist Harry Wingfield.
‘Cake’
(Yes, it is a painting - from Third Picture Book, 1971)

Photo realistic close-up in watercolour of a large slice of cream filled Victoria sponge

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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 15h

It's one of my marital tests. He must read my mind even though I don't actually know what's in it!

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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 15h

I made Ed a tofu, leek and mushroom pie with white wine sauce but I don't fancy it myself. So I'm trying to guilt trip him into going to the corner store to get me "something nice" but I don't actually know what I mean by that.

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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 17h

I have a manhole cover photo album somewhere. I'll hunt for it. Mostly Nola ones though.

Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social · 17h

Teachers would accuse me of lying about having (already) finished whatever piece of reading they'd assigned. And I'd have to deliver a précis to prove I had. I'm an extremely rapid reader who can memorise the written word easily. Shit at maths and spatial stuff though.

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