Joe Fenn
@JoeFennUK
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Hungry writer. Food @theportico. Words at various places. Read my food blog 'Panorama: The View from the Kitchen' now at https://t.co/pih4mbYS6s
Manchester, UK
Joined April 2018
Two months behind schedule, and probably for the last time on here before I move onto a platform that isn't awful, anyone still here can read another post on my blog! 'Man Make Dinner' is about food and gender and being in the kitchen with the women https://t.co/8WrghEX4Ql
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I would like to begin this essay with a bit of audience participation. I would like you to imagine, if you will, two things. First, a chef. Take a moment here to bring together a bold mental image,...
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https://t.co/oQxYYkM5rI The next instalment of Panorama: the View from the Kitchen is out! This time I discuss Ludwig Wittgenstein and the aesthetic properties of food! As ever, please read, share and enjoy!
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In the summer of 1938, the philosopher, mathematician and virtuoso whistler Ludwig Wittgenstein delivered a series of lectures to a small group of students at Cambridge University. Lacking the...
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Just in time for your morning commute, the second instalment of 'Panorama: the View from the Kitchen' is live! 'Bolognese-y' is about not being Italian. Please read, share and enjoy. #foodwriting
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As anybody who has have ever had the poor judgement to disagree with one will know, the Italians are not a people prone to equivocation. This is not a bad thing, and I say it as someone with a deep...
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No one wants to hear it, but the best hangover cure is cleaning your house.
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Hello Twitter! I have started a new blog where I'll be posting monthly essays about cooking, eating and food culture. The first post is about working, chopping onions, and the creative benefits of menial labour. Please read, share and enjoy! https://t.co/rGW2bTO3bx
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This weather is taking a mental and emotional toll. Might as well be fucking November.
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That creeping, bittersweet feeling of realising that a quote you have had knocking around in head and notebook for years is, in fact, original. Your own words. Just a shame if you've based a few hundred words on it being someone else's.
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After 6 years and about 7,500 miles (on a conservative estimate), me trusty kona bike is today going to a more mechanically minded friend who can give the old girl the end of life care she deserves. God speed. 🫡🥲
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*train conductor voice* 'Important announcement... kssh kssh kssh stop bzzzz kssh kssh kssh vigilant buzz kssh Manchester Piccadilly. Thank you.'
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Do you ever move too quickly from editing your own work to reading a proper book and find yourself mentally editing Pulitzer winners or Nobel laureates?
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This piece was being finalised a few weeks ago, when it was freezing cold, and I felt like an idiot for writing about the newfound rarity of frosts. I don't want to say I'm glad of the current mild, sodden weather but... Read me in Issue 14 of @HinterlandNF!
We absolutely adore the cover of our latest issue, by photographer @GhaleTashir. Issue 14 is a climate writing special, guest edited by @ionamacduff and featuring an interview with @AratiKumarRao - and best of all, you can preorder it right now: https://t.co/vAdWyhElzf
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We absolutely adore the cover of our latest issue, by photographer @GhaleTashir. Issue 14 is a climate writing special, guest edited by @ionamacduff and featuring an interview with @AratiKumarRao - and best of all, you can preorder it right now: https://t.co/vAdWyhElzf
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https://t.co/KvQKGNsnU3 Big things happening in work today!
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The Grade II-listed Portico Library, which dates back to 1806, will use the money for a refurbishment.
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Will there ever come a day when I can spell 'rhythm' without spellcheck's help?
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There is strong new challenger to the Croc in the running for ugliest shoe ever.
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At literary folks: what are you best recommendations for satires and pastiches, particularly for books taking the piss out of a form through outlandish imitation?
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I don't want to get ahead of myself, but for the first time in a long time there is a section of the weather forecast that is not rain.
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