A Sky News report on empty #Brexit supermarket shelves did show one sturdy product had remained steadfastly available. Well done Tripe Marketing Board 💚!

Just listened to an excellent talk given by @rare_cooking about what she's doing in Cooking in the Archives. The ability to "attend" an event on the East Coast of the US from my own kitchen is wonderful.

I have mushrooms - shiitake - to grow, courtesy of Cee aka Orlaith . We'll see how this goes. #shrooms #shiitake #mushroomfarming

New book recommended by Dr Sorcha O'Brien for current research has arrived. It looks fantastic. I may have to pry it from @sabayone's hands...

Important work being done here.

I've studied (or at least read about) manuscripts and books from just about every period of history, and this is a form of cookbook annotation I have never seen before: x.com/claudykin/stat…

The latest issue, which talks about the experience of following Medieval Lenten food rules, and also manages to quote Nigella Lawson (who is very much not Lenten) is out now. commonplacebook.substack.com/p/commonplace-…

The latest issue of Commonplace, much of which is about timing, is out: commonplacebook.substack.com/p/commonplace-…

Also, I attended an online talk by Dr Dorothy Cashman last night, in conjunction with National Library of Ireland, which has me thoroughly fired up for looking at more manuscript recipe books when that's possible again. :)

Tesco had cucumbers very briefly this week, and is now out of them again. Avocados are likewise unavailable. Lidl has both. I'm still not sure how that works.

An interesting piece here about dining rooms. I don't quite agree with all of its conclusions, but I'll expand on that in a future issue. It's worth noting that there's an estate here in Maynooth where most of the houses still have a dining room. vox.com/the-goods/2235…

Mad musings about mushrooms in some medieval Italian recipes (Scappi) by me, not expert in any of those fields, just interested. pontagedue.wordpress.com/2021/04/06/mus…

I really liked gourmetmushrooms.co.uk but the whole Brexit thing and me being in another country has sort of messed that up. I'm trying to find an EU supplier of interesting mushroom substrates that will cater for a home grower/beginner/interested occasional dabbler?

The first issue of Gentle Decline in MONTHS is now filtering through email servers everywhere. You can read it on the web here: gentledecline.substack.com/p/gentle-decli… (but you should also subscribe).

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