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The new edition of Indy Eats is out today and it’s a whopper! Hannah Twiggs has done an amazing job on this one 🎄 I have a few pieces in there that I’m really proud of that I thought I’d share below

In this week's newsletter, we've got dishes perfect for sharing now restrictions have lifted; plus, we put Kwoklyn Wan's latest cookbook to the test to see if you really can whip up a Chinese takeaway feast in just 10 mins. Sign up here to read: tinyurl.com/237j6m32

Even anti-veggers might be swayed by the vegan discovery menu at Tendril, Rishim Sachdeva's current residency at the Sun & 13 Cantons pub. One of the best plant-based tasting menus I've tried recently 🙌 My review for The Independent here: independent.co.uk/life-style/foo…

‘How we escaped the rat race and travelled the world in our campervan’ independent.co.uk/life-style/foo…

Is Gen Z killing off the Christmas pudding or has it just... always been bad? Important discourse from me for The Independent independent.co.uk/life-style/foo…

yeah 😔💅🏻

Promise this is (probably) the last time I'll try to ruin Christmas before the end of the year for The Independent independent.co.uk/life-style/foo…

So very proud of Rebecca Thomas of the Independent for her win at the British Journalism Awards!! Rebecca Thomas

Only just seen this - the man, the myth, the legend (and The Independent's esteemed travel correspondent) Simon Calder won the Press Gazette Travel Journalism Award - yaaaasss!!!! pressgazette.co.uk/press-gazette-…

One of my favourite commissions for Christmas - not least because it proves I'm not a total Scrooge

might air fry some cigarettes to make them healthier and more energy efficient

Only put Harriet Williamson through 1,000 words or so of my ranting about soil

One last bit of rambling from me: it’s been a weird old year but a pretty good one for food, so here’s the IndyEats team’s most memorable meals of the year The Independent independent.co.uk/life-style/foo…

Word of the day is 'humdudgeon' (18th century): an imaginary illness or sense of all-overishness that tends to descend when a return to reality beckons.

I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to say “awooga” in response to my appearance 😌

Of the 23 new Michelin stars awarded in the UK and Ireland last night, only two recipients weren’t white men - and none of them were women.

"I hope this email finds you well". How the email finds me:

Desperately hope they find the submarine, but the fate of the 5 people on it has already received far more attention than the 78 who drowned in one tragedy off the coast of Greece last week - surely that should make us pause for thought.

Can the snow please bog off now