Recipe Reels Might Turn Me Vegan

If anyone can make a total lifestyle change look easy, it's a shiny happy influencer in an 8 second clip.

I can’t get enough of food insta. I watch food programmes when I need to relax, and so it follows that rapidfire food content full of shiny sauces being stirred and salt sprinkling from up high in luxury AirBnB kitchens would capture my attention. I am captured. Here’s a sort-of poem about them.

I like the happy ones. The pretty ones. The ones who take a bite of broccoli,

awestruck.

Oh my god, you guys, this is so good.

You have to try this.

Three ingredients.

So easy. So cheap. No waste.

Plants, sunshine, clear skin, youth

No magic

Just a 15 minute meal, prepared in a spotless kitchen

Pasta, domesticity, mukbang: happiness

Other Stuff

• The Rough Stuff Fellowship began in the 1950s as a cycling group dedicated to shunning tarmac and climbing hills. It, of course began in a pub. It’s still accepting members as this piece by Tom Vanderbilt proves. Excellent photos too.

• I very much enjoyed this Instagram post by St. John about the pleasure of serving a table of one. “A table-for-one is the greatest compliment a restaurant can receive.”

• The boggy peatlands of Scotland are being restored in the name of carbon capture—they’re some of the most effective environments in the world at collecting and storing carbon from the atmosphere. It has taken no time at all for the value to be seen in saving and protecting the environment now that money can be made from doing so, and large areas of the Highlands are being bought to be registered, restored and then sold to companies who can use it to offset their emissions (like Brewdog, for example.) This piece in the New York Times asked the question: who should profit from these formerly worthless bogs?

• A film by Accessfund about climbing respectfully: Bears Ears National Monument: Respect the People, Respect the Resources

• A simply lovely piece by Lily Waite about The Salutation Inn in Ham, Gloucestershire for Pellicle.