Annie Gray
@DrAnnieGray
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Food historian. #BBCTKC panellist. Writes books, talks a lot and eats cheese. 🇪🇺
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'It'll all be over by Christmas' is a GREAT slogan. Never heard that before. Sure it'll prove totally true.
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Wrote this. Out in 2 weeks. Includes mild insanity and a lot of silver balls. Had quite a lot of fun because of this. (1960s food - I MEAN).
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My phone just randomly made this for me, no idea why, how or what it was up to, but this was about 11 months ago during filming Tudor Xmas with the lovely
@Lucy_Worsley
and it was BRILLIANT fun finally wearing a codpiece, and it made me laugh, so I thought I'd share it.
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Launched my book with a lunch today. Bloody brilliant. Happy mince pies everyone.
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Food and Cookery, 1948. I'm just leaving these ANGRY CAPS here....
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The
@britishlibrary
has sent an email about conditions for reopening and I leapt upon it so fast it was embarrassing. Then, of course laughed like a drain at the question about whether limited catering facilities would put me off. Er...the ACTUAL catering facilities put me off.
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Parmentier's grave (populariser of the potato in France, pioneering agriculturalist, has a soup named after him among other dishes). Note actual potato left in gratitude for his good work.
#lovepotatoes
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COMPETITION TIME... The lovely folks
@ProfileBooks
have offered a signed copy of At Xmas We Feast to one lucky tweep. I'll even write MORE STUFF in it for you (if you want - Xmas IS coming, soz).
To enter, retweet this & I'll pick someone at random. Closes tomoz lunch.
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Pleased as punch to have been elected a Fellow of the
@RoyalHistSoc
in the latest round. Huge thanks to
@EmmaGriffinHist
for sponsoring me. Now have more letters after my name than in it, which is pretty cool and useful for anagrams.
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@BorisJohnson
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
Er, no. We can't. He's an unmitigated shitweasel who can't even begin to comprehend what most of the country feels from his position of utter privilege.
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Brilliant response to the current shitstorm:
We're aiming to open many of our gardens and parks for free during this difficult time, so the nation can use open spaces to relax and refresh, while following the government’s social distancing guidance. We will be closing our houses, cafés and shops this week.
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Got Victorian with my potatoes, innit. Ring mould of GLORY.
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Cover reveal...... and it is GORGEOUS. Coming in Feb 2020
#VictoryintheKitchen
#ChurchillsCook
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This lot will never get decent butter like that. THIS is how you wield a churn.
#eurovision
#poland
http://t.co/6JDf7KFMHd
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THIS. We need to stop talking about food poverty and call it what it really is: poverty plain and simple. Concentrating on food deflects from the very real issue of increasing rich/poor divide and deep seated social inequality.
THREAD. A number of people have responded to this tweet that there is nothing wrong with a company a) making a profit and b) that supermarket margins are in any case low. Both of these things are true. But the supermarket sector is unlike any other. A bit of background. 1/
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Good for the
@nationaltrust
for raising its head above the social media parapet. Some of the replies are mind-boggling in their anger - how dare their cosy world have nuance be thrust into it. How dare they be made to *think*. Cripes.
Many of the places we care for have direct or indirect links to slavery, including objects made from materials obtained by forced labour.
Today, as we mark the
@UNESCO
Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, we take a closer look at these materials.
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Looked up from my wine so spot this, rather graphic demonstration of exactly how the whole *heatwave* scenario is going chez Gray....
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Happy
#BBCTKC
The Kitchen Cabinet OFFICIAL almanac publication day! Just signed these, all sweetly stacked in one of my happy places. Happy reading, lovely people. Big oop to the whole cast and crew for making such a glorious show.
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Delia Smith's 36 hour plan for making xmas dinner fuss free includes preheating the oven at 7.45am on xmas day.
She also suggests the 'frazzled' cook can finally sit down at 4pm, like anyone else in her idealised nightmare house of hell will do the washing up.
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@YorkshireTea
Whole milk or nothing. Preferably a new bottle so you can spoon the cream into your mouth first.
(I MEAN.... semi skimmed? Makes crap custard, revolting rice pudding and bad batter. Pshaw).
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I just submitted all 95k words of the first draft of
#Victoryinthekitchen
and feel a bit weepy. Maybe now my shoulders will stop hurting and I can stop dreaming about Winston Churchill and also we can leave 1930s world.
Next up: endless Xmas. (And also a stiff whisky).
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I'm not proud of myself.
It was *supposed* to be bettering-my-génoise day. But the 1970s called and bad things happened. (Note that there is a génoise under all of the apple purée and italian meringue buttercream and such).
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Why are Victorian sinks so big and low, they ask...... so a turbot kettle can be properly washed up, I say.
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Scripting a piece about spotted dick except apparently I can only have three dicks as otherwise it'll make YouTube algorithm decide it's porn. Use your dicks wisely, in other words.
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I think I'm nearing the limit of my cake tolerance now. (Strawberry meringue cake, another 1960s gem). This came after quite a lot of pizza and before we started on the whisky... *hauls self heavily up the stairs to bed*
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Absolutely loving
#Poirot
and its depiction of the seedy side of 1930s Britian, not just endless cosy jazz. Malkovich and Grint both utterly compelling.
Obvs the Torygraph calling it 'excruciating left liberal drivel' makes it EVEN BETTER, but still, genuinely love it
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Made a cake. Sorry if this this account becomes 80% 1960s cake shiz for a while. (The other 20% moaning about trains and brexshit anger as per, do NOT FEAR).
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Hugely chuffed to have been awarded an Honorary Fellowship
@UniOfYork
. The
@UoYArchaeology
dept has always been incredibly supportive of me and I owe it a great deal. My MA there was genuinely life changing.
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Well, LOOKEE HERE. The final one of the three books I wrote last year in the very flesh. My fave extracts, plus intros from me (slightly tongue-in-cheek in places I do admit), covering 2000 years of food history (yes, in chronological order, what else?). It is LOVELY.
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The 1960s is killing me now. (Knickerbocker Glory, freely riffed upon and drawing mainly on anecdotal evidence, much of which involves 1980s Wimpeys and the occasional Little Chef I will admit).
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Xmas poulet de bresse.
Butcher: want it gutted?
Me: no, that's fine
Him: good, it'll keep better
Me: yes, that's what I thought and also please leave the legs on for stock
Butcher: *nods sagely*
Woman in shop: *gives terrified look and grabs her steak and runs away*
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@drsimonwoodward
:) My train is delayed yet AGAIN and as the country seems to be falling apart my ire boileth over. May is a dickwad, Corbyn is a knobjockey, but the Rees-Mogg--Johnson combo REALLY makes me see red.
Note how Brexit has led to impressive composite swears.
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Jesus. I've written a bestseller.
We are honored to have
@people
choose our Official
#DowntonAbbey
Cookbook as one of their “50 Food Faves of 2019." 🏆 See what other editor handpicked snacks, books and food personalities took over the culinary world this year. 🧁👩🍳
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The 1960s called and I failed them by having no plastic holly. Silver balls had to do. And a peacock because why not.
(Orange chocolate log: I know you lot voted rum over orange, but I reserve the right to treat a public vote as guidance, especially when it is wrong).
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Lovely lovely new (and necessary) headshots by the reliably brilliant Kristy Noble Photography. (one month til book comes out, not bricking myself AT ALL)
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Made another in my series of occasional twisted Easter cakes (also a birthday cake). I think the concept is readable.
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Just got my hands on a copy of this. It is very pretty (and has some of my fave recipes in. Also a lengthy bibliography and hardcore facts OBVS).
#downtonabbey
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Can't eat this now. Have eaten all the oozed out cherry filling and boozy, slightly over-whipped cream and need a lie down. Pro-tip: don't decide to bake black forest gateau when the kitchen is at 32°C just because you feel a bit down and want to cheer yourself up.
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This was today.... and it was a LOT of fun (playing carver to
@Lucy_Worsley
's Henry VIII....and fulfilling my CODPIECE dreams).
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Well, HELLO banana plum pudding, aren't you a glossy beast. (1962, Banana Dishes, Elizabeth Craig).
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Cooking from my OWN recipe book.... haven't measured a thing, didn't have half the ingredients, have added random shit. Good to see that I treat my recipes as I treat those of others, really.
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Why yes, I did make a (sort of) scale replica of Astley Castle in tudor sugarplate for
@bosburybecca
's birthday stay
@LandmarkTrust
's brilliant rebuilding of same..... we couldn't eat it til I took photos so.
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SUGAR COMA. There is a kilo of chocolate in this pie. I'm dying a bit.
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I had a meeting today. After an hour I realised my dress was on back to front and that there was a pocket on my shoulder blade and a label visible around my sternum. SIGH.
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PSA. Am here and primed with exciting historic recipes for lettuce and brassicas for all those people who have never bought lettuce and brassicas before and now find they have a fridge full. 🤔
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Was looking for a picture of a Stilton. God, I love the Victorians (Garrett et al, n.d. c.1885).
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Attempting to crawl from my sick bed and prep for a Yuletide event @ Windsor Castle this Sat which I've been looking forward to for yonks. Am cooking and poncing around in costume in a massive gold room. Also, there will be choirs. Come. I mean, LOOK AT THIS ROOM!
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Another vital announcement: (lots of local booksellers are doing this, PLEASE support them, it makes a lot of difference to them, to authors and to high streets).
We are open, but if you can’t make it to the bookshop we are posting books for £2, or free for orders over £50! 📚
And if you’re nearby and can’t leave the house, we are just a phone call away and more than happy to drop off supplies (bookish or otherwise).
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Ely definitely has its moments. Hats off to the Ely yarnbombers. (Year of the Tiger, grrr)
@SpottedInEly
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Plum pudding only started to morph into Christmas pudding in the C19 (1819, Elizabeth Hammond to be precise). Seems fitting to use a Victorian turbotière to boil a couple of C18th riffs on the topic + a C20th version ahead of appearing on Sunday Brunch this weekend...
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I think my family made these rolled in cornflakes, not rolled oats. Nobody else I've spoken to recalls this as a thing. Anyone? (Melting Moments, BE-RO c.1957 but reprinted text of 1930s). Bloody nice, anyway.
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Happy publication day, me! Book already out of stock on amazon...(back v soon). Hie thee to thy local havens of learning (bookshops)...
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Today's gripe: when in hell's name did 'likely' replace 'probably' in British English? Did I blink and miss a memo? Even the sodding BBC is at it now (along with 'uptick' when 'increase' will do just fine thanks). Grrrrr.
Yes my edits are going well thank you what yes gin.
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I have written words! The first words of the new book! I have broken ground! I'd forgotten quite how much of a weight lifts at that stage. Only another 88,000 to go.
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WOOOO!!! The Kitchen Cabinet
#BBCTKC
has just WON
@Fortnums
#FandMAwards
! Well done
@SomethinElse
- richly deserved. Am SO PROUD to be part of the team xx
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Happy Xmas from this soon-to-be-in-flames Christmas Rabbit (banana plum pudding, 1962, modernised recipe in At Christmas We Feast). Best with bacon. (Pizza first, obvs).
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Twelfth Cake for breakfast. Heavy enough to kill. Fruity enough to be about 3 of my five a day. Spread, of course, with
@FenFarmDairy
butter.
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Today, tomorrow and Thursday are all about THIS thing of absolute beauty. Books are hard. Book writing is horrible. This one was a bloody joy, and I thank
@Bettys
from the bottom of my heart for letting me loose on their archive.
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Today is the day..... I'm on a
@Bettys
crawl. All 6 branches in a day.
It is PISSING it down.
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Woop, the documentary on Auguste Escoffier that I filmed a tiny bit of last Jan is on
@ARTEfr
now - but also available to stream in the UK here (in French, w English subs). Inseem to recall that for reasons of gravitas, I speak in English.
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This year's cake. 1960s inspired. I quote: 'bright colours are looked for on xmas cakes..fine line overpiping bright red [is] expected...provided the effect is not garish, the window show effect will be quite striking, and not out of harmony with the spirit of the times.'
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So....this is about to happen because basically I am an Edwardian.
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The church bells are back (Friday night is practice night in Ely) and I've missed them so much. Here's to all the ringers newly allowed back into their bell towers to give us merry peals of intangible heritage (etc)
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I went out for dinner. I did not cook for myself for the first time in about a zillion years. There was Jerusalem artichoke risotto and marmite butter. I nearly cried. I really hate most of 2020.
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This year's cake. Based on the 1935 Castle McDougall xmas cake, revised and reinterpreted with guidance from
@bosburybecca
because a central tower seemed architecturally dubious, so we went for a corner stair tower instead. No excuse for historical dodginess, even in plum cake.
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Weddings, royal or otherwise, totally not my thing, but kudos to Eugenie for having her scoliosis scar proudly on show. My own scar, also scoliosis, is HUGE and I was v conscious of it for ages.
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I flambéed a mincemeat omelette and in the process consumed a really quite significant quantity of brandy. It is research. Honest. Happy Xmas.
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Looking at news headlines and thinking, well yes, great, and stuff, but am I the only one thinking it'd be really nice to keep masks on public transport please?. (And, thinking about the British Library Sniffers who I do not miss, archives).
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The brilliant
@EnglishHeritage
#TheVictorianWay
videos with
@HistoricalHippo
in the role of Avis Crocombe have gone proper viral... 12 million hits for a woman born over 150 years ago. (and the YouTube video comments are hilarious).
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Happy Thursday! The lovely folks
@panmacmillan
have released the ebook of my book of edited food writing early: - hardback due in the autumn, but it seemed like people might need a bit of food-related joy now.
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First newspaper review of
#TheGreedyQueen
is in
@TheTimesBooks
today and it is amazing. Am grinning from ear to ear.
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Please note that I now have the appropriate level of plastic holly, so huge thanks to
@bosburybecca
's mum for enabling this to happen.
I might stop for a bit now.
1960s marshmallow snowman. That is all.
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Plum pudding afternoon. Windows running with water and house smells of xmas*. And I've discovered six to be the optimum number of 1pt puddings you can fit in a turbot kettle. I MEAN. Some things the books just don't tell you.
* beef suet, really.
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My pie game is STRONG tonight. (My kerning is rubbish and my joints need work, but it was a new technique).
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Out TODAAAAAAAAAAY YAAAAAAY!
Get ready for the festive season with
#AtChristmasWeFeast
by
@DrAnnieGray
- out now!🎄
Stuffed with recipes and sprinkled with joy, you can learn where your favourite gluttonous meals come from and discover tantalising modern traditions🎅
📚
@ProfileBooks
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Himbeertörte.
I keep trying to say more than my German will allow me and getting stuck. It's BRILLIANT, if frustrating because I feel so terribly rude and stereotypically English.
Have learnt to say 'I'm sorry for Brexit, it was not me' very well though.
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SO SO SO SWEET. But I guess if you like fudge chocolate icing and chocolate buttercream and very light evap based chocolate cake..... the 1960s is going to make me diabetic.
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Talking of puddings (which some of us are), I'd like to introduce THIS. I don't know what it was sold as (bought it in the States), but it is a sublime pudding lifter and keeps the bowl off the bottom of the pan better than a saucer. Kitchen gadgetry can be good.
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It has finally happened. M has asked if we can rewatch
#TheVictorianKitchen
with the superlative Ruth Mott, Harry Dodson and Peter Thoday and so we are gloriously binging the best show the
@BBC
has ever made. I MEAN. Can you imagine it being made now?
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The inestimable
@Botanygeek
being rational once more: veg gardening is brilliant, and I love LOVE my garden, but it is also neither cheap nor easy, and reducing complex food issues to shrieks of 'well I do it so anyone can' is utterly unhelpful.
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Yes, today was a recipe testing day and not all of it was terrible.
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Just watched The Dig (I know, late to the party) and even though I was warned, the sodding lemon drizzle cake nearly caused me to have actual apoplexy. The liberal use of foil was bad enough. Ffs people, just stick to seed cake. Or, I dunno, do some basic research.
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