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Ned Palmer

@cheesetastingco.bsky.social

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Author of A Cheesemonger's Tour de France, A Cheesemonger's Compendium & A Cheesemonger's History of the British Isles. Private and corporate cheese tastings. "The UK's greatest authority on cheese" (Tom Watson) https://www.cheesetastingco.uk/

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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · Nov 26

Cheesemongers of the UK! You can buy A Cheesemongers Tour direct from me. Signed 1st ed hardback copies, feel the benefit! DMs are open!

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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · 12h

FEET!

Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · 12h

I had a GREAT time on Joe’s podcast. Not least watching him eating cheese topless in his caravan.

cynthia’s voicebox @cynthiaspickle.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe Joe Marler should win The Traitors

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The Delicious Legacy Podcast @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social · 1d

Irish stories, myths and legends are full of spirits and ghosts. The history of beer in Ireland is no different; many of these shadowy echoes are still reverberating in the modern brewing history.
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Filthy Queens - A History of Irish Beer & Women Brewers | The Delicious Legacy

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The Delicious Legacy Podcast @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social · 3d

Hello!
New episode is out for all to enjoy!
What is like to be a Greek chef, living and working in Helsinki? From Crete to Finland with Aino!
Lets find out...
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The Life of a Greco-Finnish Chef in Helsinki

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Darren Maughan @darrenm1973.bsky.social · 6d

If anyone lost a bag of books from LRB Bookshop on the Metropolitan Line between Baker St- Watford, I handed it to a cleaner when the train terminated at Watford tube station. And if you have far more followers than me, please share this status. LRB bookshop is not cheap!

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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · 7d

Cheese! Specifically Shakespearean cheese, and the discussion thereof on Sam Bilton's brilliant podcast Comfortably Hungry.
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Food in Shakespeare: The Mystery Ingredient

with Victoria Gonzalez-Gordon, Jane Steward and Ned Palmer

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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · 7d

I'll be ok then!

The Delicious Legacy Podcast @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social · 8d

Cc @cheesetastingco.bsky.social

Euronews @euronews.com · 8d

Researchers found that regular cheese eaters were 24 per cent less likely to develop the condition over three years compared with non-cheese eaters.

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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · 8d

Hi Martin! Absolutely! Can you email me? I don't have messaging on here cos of Big Brother Kier...

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 22d

We are awarding our President's Medal to 'In Our Time' as it has done so much to showcase humanities & social sciences. We'd decided this before the news of Melvyn Bragg stepping down, but glad we got our timing right & had a chance to celebrate with him!
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/renowne...

Renowned BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time receives prestigious British Academy President’s Medal for 2025

The British Academy has awarded its prestigious President’s Medal to the long-running and beloved BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time. Recognising its outstanding contribution to humanities and social s...

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · 26d

So exciting!

The Delicious Legacy Podcast @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social · 26d

With the most awesome people, @mrssbilton.bsky.social @alessandrapino.bsky.social and @neilbuttery.bsky.social

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Serve it Forth Food History Festival: 1 week to go!

Hello everyone – I do hope you are all having a great weekend. This is just a super-short post just to remind you that the first Serve it Forth Food History Festival is just one week away &#8…

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The Delicious Legacy Podcast @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social · 29d

4/x It's the foods, the dishes, the recipes that bring us together! These have no borders, and similar recipes have been shared by the Balkan people for generations across our modern borders! Here's some delicious stuff!
Credit: The Balkan Kitchen (Quadrille, 2024), Copyright: Photos Liz Seabrook.

Ajvar the delicious moreish spread of cooked roasted red peppers from North macedonia.

Baked beans, the massive Prespa beans called giant beans in a traditional clay pot with red peppers and paprika!

The street food of the bygone eras of the Balkans! Čevapčici (Kebačinja)
basically finger thin meat patties, sort of long burgers served wirth bread ajvar and onion and whatever else you like to!

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Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social · Oct 2

Tuck into to @cheesetastingco.bsky.social's brie-lliant guide to the cheeses of France with #ACheesemongersTourDeFrance, out today in paperback 🇫🇷

Complete with tasting notes and serving suggestions, this is a must-read for the cheese lover in your life.

🧀: tinyurl.com/ACheesemongersTourDeFrancePB

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The Delicious Legacy Podcast @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social · Sep 23

You don't have to like weird food to listen to the pod! we have plenty of episodes about beer/pubs, wine, spices, cheese; interviews with spectacularly knowledgeable guests, such as @goingmedieval.bsky.social @petebrownbeer.bsky.social @cheesetastingco.bsky.social @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social

Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · Sep 23

My own food weirdness might rule this out for me

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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · Sep 19

Thank you!

Mo Ali | مح علي @moali.bsky.social · Sep 19

If you're on LinkedIn, you'll probably want to switch this toggle to 'off'.

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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · Sep 13

NUNS ON THE RUN!!!

Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · Sep 13

YES LADIES, THIS IS THE WAY. Escape facilitated by former students to boot. 🥰

Fascinated by the Provost’s use of ‘health & safety’ concerns and depicting them as ‘fragile’ & in need of ‘professional help’ in order to deny them their convent. As if these ladies need to be told what’s good for them.

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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · Sep 13

This month's Cheese of the Month: Single Gloucester: bit.ly/SingleGloucester

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · Sep 10

Invitation to friends in the arts. I'm part of a group organizing a project called Fall of Freedom. We want artists and orgs of all kinds (whether you're an Indie bookstore, a cinema, gallery, whatever) to come together to resist authoritarianism. Starting November 21st...

www.falloffreedom.com

Fall of Freedom is an urgent call to the arts community to unite in defiance of authoritarian forces sweeping the nation. Our Democracy is under attack. Threats to free expression are rising. Dissent is being criminalized. Institutions and media have been recast as mouthpieces of propaganda.

This Fall, we are activating a nationwide wave of creative resistance. Beginning November 21–22, 2025, galleries, museums, libraries, comedy clubs, theaters, and concert halls across the country will host exhibitions, performances, and public events that channel the urgency of this moment. Fall of Freedom is an open invitation to artists, creators, and communities to take part—and to celebrate the experiences, cultures, and identities that shape the fabric of our nation.

Art matters. Artists are a threat to American fascism.

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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · Sep 8

Words of wisdom from the early modern Pamflyt Compiled of Cheese, now available in a new transcription online. This and other vital items of cheese news can be found in my new Substack series, Ned's Cheesy Nuggets. No. 1 out now: bit.ly/NedsNuggets

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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · Sep 6

Ned's Cheesy Nuggets, No 1: September 2025
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Ned's Cheesy Nuggets, No 1: September 2025

A regular round up of cheese news.

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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · Aug 27

Morning all! Summer Burden open.substack.com/pub/wildiris...

Summer Burden

give away or give into

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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · Aug 25

A Day in the Life of a Freelance Cheesemonger
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A Day in the Life of a Freelance Cheesemonger

No. 1: A Visit to Paxton and Whitfields

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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · Aug 21

More to look forward to…

Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · Aug 20

Me to, tho I prefer my tripe to be fairly unrecognisable, ie in a stew with some nice sausage and crispy pig's ears. I've never had a fried mars bar.

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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · Aug 20

I imagine most people would count all of those, though for me black pudding is pretty innocuous, and lovely. I'd add tripe but it's vanishingly rare here now.

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