Join me on the 18th of October at the "Serve It Forth" Food History festival to find out about the "famous chefs" and famous sauces of the ancient Greek world! Tickets still available on Eventbrite!
www.eventbrite.com/e/serve-it-f...

Join me on the 18th of October at the "Serve It Forth" Food History festival to find out about the "famous chefs" and famous sauces of the ancient Greek world! Tickets still available on Eventbrite!
www.eventbrite.com/e/serve-it-f...

An important precedent set which I hope is wielded broadly

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Good episode about the Spanish Civil war!
And once more we discover that the British political elites washed their hands of any moral responsibility to help democratic side and paved the way to fucking franco for nearly 4 decades.
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xenophobia than pointing that it's absurd for racists to honour a religious figure of a different descent.

The "Saint George was Turkish" line as a gotcha response to flagshaggers' bigotry is silly because:
a) it is factually incorrect, obviously,
b) it aligns with Turkey's historical revisionism - not cool
c) there are so many better ways to attack the racism and
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It's impossible if both parents are working and one has two kids. Maybe one, maybe one parent is stay at home.
Every family needs help, grantparents, aunties, godparents etc. Who thinks that 2 adults can achieve everything and raise kids, cooks, clean, teach etc? Almost impossible!

The headline news that won't be headline news.

This is a) utterly terrifying and b) vital. Don’t turn away. The crisis is fixable because it is, ultimately, political. We know the chemistry. We decline the action necessary.

BBC News explain that because of Brexit, Brits will be photographed and have their fingerprints taken when going into the EU, as the UK now is a third country

BBC News forget to explain that the UK helped create these rules when we were part of the EU because we wanted stronger border control

Your occasional reminder that 93% of UK parents do not send their children to a private school.

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

Never heard of Rylan Clark, but his co-presenter is brilliant. I suspect she does a bit of delving too, but you obviously didn't think that was worth mentioning in your headline. Misogyny, eh?

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How do you like your chocolate baklava huh?
Find out in Irina's interview and book, The Balkan Kitchen:
#food #balkankitchen #balkanfood #balkans #chocolate #baklava #chocolatebaklava

Good morning! Let's have a Balkan Feast, OK?
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(listen to the episode I recorded with Irina!)

#podcast #food #foodpodcast #thebalkans

Julius Caesar conquered Gaul in 51 BC and died in 44 BC, therefore all of Asterix's adventures took place over the course of less than seven years, probably much less since Asterix's chieftain was at the battle of Alesia, were it is probable Asterix and Obelix's fathers died. In this essay, I will

Papa Smurf wears a Phrygian cap, most often associated with the French Revolution, indicating Smurf Village had a monarchy it has since overthrown. This makes Papa Smurf, de facto head of state post-revolution, akin to Robespierre. In this essay I will —

The level of destruction and erasure in the Gaza Strip is simply incredible. North Gaza, before and after:

It hurts how your geography can decide how much pain you’re forced to carry

Sunday

This is an astonishingly good news story, it will bring enormous health benefits, it will be noted by historians of london in centuries to come. But it will change no one’s vote, he will get no credit. More people will be talking about trans toilet habits at the next election.
It’s a conundrum.