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7 — Tart, Chicken, Curry

I don’t buy newspapers, but I’m going to start. Each weekend, my mum and dad walk up to Hampstead high street and sit outside a coffee shop with the dog, whatever the weather. They order a couple coffees, give the dog a bonio, and flip through the newspapers. Maybe they’re bundled up in thick coats and scarves, maybe they’re in t-shirts — but they’re there. And I love that. I think it’s such a wholesome ritual. The quiet rustle of the pages of a newspaper being turned hold such a nostalgic comfort for me! The size of the pages, the texture of the paper…it’s not the same online. And it may cost a bit more than I really want to be paying, but I think it’s the sort of expense I should start indulging in: a slow Saturday or Sunday morning, reading the news or the included magazines with a hot drink and maybe a croissant. Especially because The Guardian on a Saturday includes a copy of Feast, their food magazine which I like to collect. This week I tried my hand at one of the recipes from it.

3 – School Dinners, Nostalgia, Tea

Can you believe it’s not dark at 6pm anymore? The clocks went back a little while ago, but it’s only now that I’m back at uni and finishing work in the evening still in the natural light, that the glory of this fact has truly sunk in. Honestly, sunlight makes such a difference to a mood. That is — except the food mood! Seamless transition, hardihar.

This week I’ve been enjoying the nostalgia that food can bring. It’s endlessly lauded as the perfect medium for memory, and I don’t think anyone would be so bold as to disagree. Be it revisiting school dinner pinnacles, pining for lost simpler times, or using food to bring back the past, there’s a lot one can do with the humble grub.

Los Angeles

ADVENTURES IN EATING

A review of Camden’s Daughter.

If you’ve walked down Kentish Town Road recently, or glanced out the window of the C2 bus, perhaps you’ve caught sight of the (relatively) new beer and snack bar Camden’s Daughter, whose rich blue exterior and red door makes for an aesthetically pleasing effect. I certainly did, because I went in with some friends and decided to review it.