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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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Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social · 8d
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 · 17d
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
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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bsky.social · 17d
My own food weirdness might rule this out for me
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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · 21d
Thank you!
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Mo Ali | مح علي @moali.bsky.social · 21d
If you're on LinkedIn, you'll probably want to switch this toggle to 'off'.
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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · 27d
NUNS ON THE RUN!!!
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 27d
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 · 27d
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...

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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…
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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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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · Aug 19
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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · Aug 18
Thank you!
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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · Aug 18
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Will Hawkes @willhawkes.bsky.social · Jul 4
I've spent the past few months researching and writing (what I think is) the biggest pub guide ever published by a national newspaper (50,000 words!) - and today its been published! www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/best-...
The 500 best pubs in England
Use our tool to find the perfect pub nearest to you
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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · Aug 17
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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · Aug 16
Cheesemonger's Odyssey, Cheese of the Month: Beemster's Gouda Selection. open.substack.com/pub/nedpalme...
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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · Aug 15
This is true. Better to be smaller than under the Soviet yoke. It is really incredible what the Finns achieved. My friend's dacha is in the forest near the old frontline. Very moving walking among the traces of the trenches, blown pillboxes and scraps of barbed wire.
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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · Aug 15
Yeah..I mean...Finland did lose the war in the end, and a load of territory too. At a dreadful cost to Russian soldiers and their families, but then that's never bothered their governments...'sometimes quantity is its own quality...'
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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · Aug 15
OST 🥰
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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · Aug 15
Cheese is cool: open.substack.com/pub/nedpalme...
It's (not) too hot for cheese
Some suggestions for the Summer Cheeseboard
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Ned Palmer @cheesetastingco.bsky.social · Aug 13
Freelance Writing Jobs: BBC, Talking Wales, Curtis Brown
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Freelance Writing Jobs: BBC, Talking Wales, Curtis Brown
Plus a brand new writing prize.
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