Apoorva Sripathi
@apoorvasripathi.bsky.social
writer-editor-artist-poet-butter enthusiast, does other things also. https://www.apoorvasripathi.com/
shelf care is back with recommendations on what to read, and with a surprise for paid subs <3 you can opt to receive a small print for christmas/new year (depending on mail times) for the small price of only a postage fee. there are two options to choose from!
shelf care: detours along the way
(#13) Recommendations on reading and consuming + a small surprise for paid subs
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November 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
shelf care is back with recommendations on what to read, and with a surprise for paid subs <3 you can opt to receive a small print for christmas/new year (depending on mail times) for the small price of only a postage fee. there are two options to choose from!
ive stopped sharing my newsletter here because it didn't do much for me or the newsletter and yet i cannot resist. a bonus recipe for paid subscribers featuring cauliflower caponata, a one-pan no-stir recipe for cold weeknights
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shelfoffering.substack.com/p/one-pan-ca...
One-pan cauliflower caponata
A stunning new staple in my house this winter
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November 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
ive stopped sharing my newsletter here because it didn't do much for me or the newsletter and yet i cannot resist. a bonus recipe for paid subscribers featuring cauliflower caponata, a one-pan no-stir recipe for cold weeknights
shelfoffering.substack.com/p/one-pan-ca...
shelfoffering.substack.com/p/one-pan-ca...
before i take some time off, a missive on why you should become a paid subscriber to my newsletter, shelf offering. one perk i forgot to add was that this automatically gets you into the workshops, talks, and discussions at FFF. plus a zine that's incoming EOY
One thing and another
This work is endless – support me and become a paid subscriber
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October 7, 2025 at 9:37 AM
before i take some time off, a missive on why you should become a paid subscriber to my newsletter, shelf offering. one perk i forgot to add was that this automatically gets you into the workshops, talks, and discussions at FFF. plus a zine that's incoming EOY
if you’re in london, i urge you to go to the Wayne Thiebaud exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery from this Friday onwards. this is the first ever museum show of his work in the UK and ahead of that, i’m resharing my essay on his artwork and life via sugar and solitariness. read, enjoy, go!
Pies, loneliness, pies
Sugar and solitariness in Wayne Thiebaud's paintings, plus a writer community announcement
shelfoffering.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
if you’re in london, i urge you to go to the Wayne Thiebaud exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery from this Friday onwards. this is the first ever museum show of his work in the UK and ahead of that, i’m resharing my essay on his artwork and life via sugar and solitariness. read, enjoy, go!
5 years of independent newsletter writing and it's becoming more and more difficult to continue in a self-sustaining way unless i have some sort of following that will pay for any kind of shit i write. unfortunately i dont possess the personality of a cult leader. should i bemoan my lack of guile?
September 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
5 years of independent newsletter writing and it's becoming more and more difficult to continue in a self-sustaining way unless i have some sort of following that will pay for any kind of shit i write. unfortunately i dont possess the personality of a cult leader. should i bemoan my lack of guile?
september roundup: links on some interesting articles that i’ve curated from the internet, a compilation of what i’ve cooked and consumed, a podcast rec (!!) and a picture of my cat. become a paid subscriber if you are nosey and wanna know what i’ve been upto. oh and solve the MONTHLY CROSSWORD
shelf care: burnt and burnished
(#12) Recommendations on reading and consuming, plus the monthly crossword
shelfoffering.substack.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
september roundup: links on some interesting articles that i’ve curated from the internet, a compilation of what i’ve cooked and consumed, a podcast rec (!!) and a picture of my cat. become a paid subscriber if you are nosey and wanna know what i’ve been upto. oh and solve the MONTHLY CROSSWORD
Reposted by Apoorva Sripathi
issue 2 cover reveal ‼️ we publish soon but in the meantime here’s our cover, a trompe l'oeil of posted notices and prints that plays with the flexibilities of language and the meanings (spoken and unspoken) you can find in words. give issue 1 a read while you wait 📰
chlorophyllmag.com
chlorophyllmag.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
issue 2 cover reveal ‼️ we publish soon but in the meantime here’s our cover, a trompe l'oeil of posted notices and prints that plays with the flexibilities of language and the meanings (spoken and unspoken) you can find in words. give issue 1 a read while you wait 📰
chlorophyllmag.com
chlorophyllmag.com
issue 2 cover reveal ‼️ we publish soon but in the meantime here’s our cover, a trompe l'oeil of posted notices and prints that plays with the flexibilities of language and the meanings (spoken and unspoken) you can find in words. give issue 1 a read while you wait 📰
chlorophyllmag.com
chlorophyllmag.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
issue 2 cover reveal ‼️ we publish soon but in the meantime here’s our cover, a trompe l'oeil of posted notices and prints that plays with the flexibilities of language and the meanings (spoken and unspoken) you can find in words. give issue 1 a read while you wait 📰
chlorophyllmag.com
chlorophyllmag.com
Reposted by Apoorva Sripathi
this week on the newsletter, a field log of a disappearing canadian chocolate. on factory labour, snack historians, bloggers who track old candy labels down, and dubious statements from international corporations!
sarahduignan.substack.com/p/a-farewell...
sarahduignan.substack.com/p/a-farewell...
a farewell to neilson jersey milk chocolate bar
fieldnotes on canadian chocolate discontinuations
sarahduignan.substack.com
September 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
this week on the newsletter, a field log of a disappearing canadian chocolate. on factory labour, snack historians, bloggers who track old candy labels down, and dubious statements from international corporations!
sarahduignan.substack.com/p/a-farewell...
sarahduignan.substack.com/p/a-farewell...
join us on 29 september for a meet-and-greet with the FFF gang! come and tell us what you'd like to see from us? how would you like to participate? how can we support your work, too? ask us questions or just chat with us. register via link in the newsletter, and my paid subs go for free 💞
What does it mean to be a woman in food writing?
Join us Feminist Food Friends on 29 September for a conversation
shelfoffering.substack.com
September 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
join us on 29 september for a meet-and-greet with the FFF gang! come and tell us what you'd like to see from us? how would you like to participate? how can we support your work, too? ask us questions or just chat with us. register via link in the newsletter, and my paid subs go for free 💞
Reposted by Apoorva Sripathi
a bunch of us lovely talented people have formed Feminist Food Friends and there will be talks, discussions, workshops and more cool stuff to come! paid subscribers to shelf offering attend for free and for everyone else, an accessible ticket is available: luma.com/a4mibq9c
illustrations by me 🥰
illustrations by me 🥰
September 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
a bunch of us lovely talented people have formed Feminist Food Friends and there will be talks, discussions, workshops and more cool stuff to come! paid subscribers to shelf offering attend for free and for everyone else, an accessible ticket is available: luma.com/a4mibq9c
illustrations by me 🥰
illustrations by me 🥰
a bunch of us lovely talented people have formed Feminist Food Friends and there will be talks, discussions, workshops and more cool stuff to come! paid subscribers to shelf offering attend for free and for everyone else, an accessible ticket is available: luma.com/a4mibq9c
illustrations by me 🥰
illustrations by me 🥰
September 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
a bunch of us lovely talented people have formed Feminist Food Friends and there will be talks, discussions, workshops and more cool stuff to come! paid subscribers to shelf offering attend for free and for everyone else, an accessible ticket is available: luma.com/a4mibq9c
illustrations by me 🥰
illustrations by me 🥰
for @vittles.bsky.social, i wrote on the joys of lentils via two recipes for making sundal, which is a dish that dares to be categorised into one thing but is actually many things – think beyond dal! this is my urging to you
More than just Dal
Apoorva Sripathi's quick and easy sundals using green lentils and chickpeas, plus a refreshing roasted peach and rosewater lassi.
www.vittlesmagazine.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
for @vittles.bsky.social, i wrote on the joys of lentils via two recipes for making sundal, which is a dish that dares to be categorised into one thing but is actually many things – think beyond dal! this is my urging to you
Reposted by Apoorva Sripathi
i wrote about memento mori, weird art – an apron made out of fish, blocks of frozen fruits, Victorian hair tokens – and the beauty in bizarre things. please read and repost! (yes it's on substack)
something cheerful to start Tuesday morning with: a shelf offering on death in art but also transitory, bizarre, beautiful things via memento mori and fish aprons
The bizarre and the beautiful
Pleasure is futile but death is certain in art and life
shelfoffering.substack.com
September 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
i wrote about memento mori, weird art – an apron made out of fish, blocks of frozen fruits, Victorian hair tokens – and the beauty in bizarre things. please read and repost! (yes it's on substack)
for paid subscribers, a recipe for those abundant late season juicy tomatoes - turn them into curry!
Tomato season paneer curry
Bursting with ripe tomatoes, onions two ways, and capsicum of all colours
shelfoffering.substack.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
for paid subscribers, a recipe for those abundant late season juicy tomatoes - turn them into curry!
i wrote about memento mori, weird art – an apron made out of fish, blocks of frozen fruits, Victorian hair tokens – and the beauty in bizarre things. please read and repost! (yes it's on substack)
something cheerful to start Tuesday morning with: a shelf offering on death in art but also transitory, bizarre, beautiful things via memento mori and fish aprons
The bizarre and the beautiful
Pleasure is futile but death is certain in art and life
shelfoffering.substack.com
September 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
i wrote about memento mori, weird art – an apron made out of fish, blocks of frozen fruits, Victorian hair tokens – and the beauty in bizarre things. please read and repost! (yes it's on substack)
something cheerful to start Tuesday morning with: a shelf offering on death in art but also transitory, bizarre, beautiful things via memento mori and fish aprons
The bizarre and the beautiful
Pleasure is futile but death is certain in art and life
shelfoffering.substack.com
September 2, 2025 at 10:15 AM
something cheerful to start Tuesday morning with: a shelf offering on death in art but also transitory, bizarre, beautiful things via memento mori and fish aprons
my VERY tamil dad thinks i'm eating spaghetti for breakfast because i now live in europe
September 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
my VERY tamil dad thinks i'm eating spaghetti for breakfast because i now live in europe
anyway, today is chathurthi for those who celebrate. for those who don't and are thinking of dumplings, consider this essay on them by me
The Kuzhakattai Is a Simple, Versatile Dumpling with History — Whetstone Magazine
Versatile in form and adaptable by way of filling, kuzhakattais in all their forms are a true showcase of simple pleasures.
www.whetstonemagazine.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
anyway, today is chathurthi for those who celebrate. for those who don't and are thinking of dumplings, consider this essay on them by me
saw something that made me stop in my tracks: white man posting about how South Indian food is NOW part of life in north India. the evidence is that he has personally visited two north indian cities and ate dosai. i ask myself, where will we be without white men & feel honoured by their presence
August 27, 2025 at 12:31 PM
saw something that made me stop in my tracks: white man posting about how South Indian food is NOW part of life in north India. the evidence is that he has personally visited two north indian cities and ate dosai. i ask myself, where will we be without white men & feel honoured by their presence
monthly roundup on what i’ve been reading/eating/cooking/watching is here, along with the monthly crossword – solve it, share it etc etc
shelf care: too many tomatoes
(#11) Recommendations on reading and consuming, plus the monthly crossword
shelfoffering.substack.com
August 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
monthly roundup on what i’ve been reading/eating/cooking/watching is here, along with the monthly crossword – solve it, share it etc etc
Reposted by Apoorva Sripathi
Earlier this summer I could not stop talking about how big of a deal it was that my mom was coming to visit me in NYC, now I finally wrote up what we did and how it went for my personal newsletter. What do you do with a mom that's cooler than you? ultracold.substack.com/p/mediadiet-...
Media/Diet (August '25)
How to host your mom in NYC (but she's more fun than you and already loves the city)
ultracold.substack.com
August 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Earlier this summer I could not stop talking about how big of a deal it was that my mom was coming to visit me in NYC, now I finally wrote up what we did and how it went for my personal newsletter. What do you do with a mom that's cooler than you? ultracold.substack.com/p/mediadiet-...
for shelf offering paid subscribers, a rasam-dal hybrid that does double duty, as both a thin and watery rasam, as well as a gloopy and thick dal. Either way, eat it with rice or some toast – or puree the whole thing into soup and call it dinner. you wont find recipes like this elsewhere but here 🫡
Green tomato rasam
Or dal, depending on how you look at it
shelfoffering.substack.com
August 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
for shelf offering paid subscribers, a rasam-dal hybrid that does double duty, as both a thin and watery rasam, as well as a gloopy and thick dal. Either way, eat it with rice or some toast – or puree the whole thing into soup and call it dinner. you wont find recipes like this elsewhere but here 🫡
Reposted by Apoorva Sripathi
another shelf offering missive on hands, on chasing imperfections, and the specificity they demand
shelfoffering.substack.com/p/chasing-im...
shelfoffering.substack.com/p/chasing-im...
Chasing imperfections
Are hands beautiful only when held in certain poses?
shelfoffering.substack.com
August 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
another shelf offering missive on hands, on chasing imperfections, and the specificity they demand
shelfoffering.substack.com/p/chasing-im...
shelfoffering.substack.com/p/chasing-im...
another shelf offering missive on hands, on chasing imperfections, and the specificity they demand
shelfoffering.substack.com/p/chasing-im...
shelfoffering.substack.com/p/chasing-im...
Chasing imperfections
Are hands beautiful only when held in certain poses?
shelfoffering.substack.com
August 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
another shelf offering missive on hands, on chasing imperfections, and the specificity they demand
shelfoffering.substack.com/p/chasing-im...
shelfoffering.substack.com/p/chasing-im...