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FT Magazine Food and Drink editor

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 25/05/2026
ok while i'm here, both I and the food and drink editor @harrietfl.ft.com made this yesterday and it is as good as I remember it being in the restaurant as.ft.com/r/30eeeb4a-b...
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Recipe: A go-to chicken marinade for barbecue bliss
Singburi’s buttery, spicy chicken thighs are the answer to warm weather hosting
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 30/04/2026
Nigella's magic is that when I read her I think yes i will make this. But unlike every other how to live life better piece i ever read, i actually do.
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Can’t cook, won’t cook? Start by feeding yourself — Nigella Lawson
A cure for kitchen nerves, plus a recipe for anchovy pasta
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Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · 14/04/2026
Starting now - @nigella.bsky.social answers FT readers' questions about practical, easy, everyday cooking... for example, what to do with 500g of minke whale. as.ft.com/r/c97b3692-4...
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 13/04/2026
Choose wisely. www.ft.com/content/dddf...
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Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · 10/04/2026
It's spring! Season of optimism and wholesome resolutions. For example: wouldn't it be nice to take more joy from cooking? @nigella.bsky.social is here to help YOU learn how. Just submit a question via the link below, with answers coming 1pm on Tuesday.
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Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · 02/04/2026
Something good to start the month: writing that will make you want to abandon your plans for the day and spend it cooking. And as a special treat, @nigella.bsky.social’s first column is free to read www.ft.com/content/4819...
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How did I end up here? — Nigella Lawson’s first FT column
A defence of food writing (and a recipe for rice pudding) as Nigella returns to her alma mater newspaper
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 02/04/2026
Good morning and Happy Nigella Day! Because all is briefly right with the world and as a special treat, it's free to read. www.ft.com/content/4819...
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How did I end up here? — Nigella Lawson’s first FT column
A defence of food writing (and a recipe for rice pudding) as Nigella returns to her alma mater newspaper
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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
A version of Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s arroz con pollo. The shards of chicken skin were outrageous. Courtesy of @harrietfl.ft.com at the FT.
A close up photograph of rice, fried chicken, a chunk of lemon, and sriracha.
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kadhim @kadhim.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The FT is hiring a correspondent for our Investigations team. Contact me if you want to discuss the role. Deadline is April 12 job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
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Cordelia Jenkins @cordeliajenkins.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
As Nathan Newby receives the George medal today for extraordinary bravery, read the amazing story, published in the FT Magazine in December, of how he talked a would-be hospital bomber down. It’s an astonishing piece of writing from Ravi Somaiya and it’s Free to Read www.ft.com/content/cd59...
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‘It’s just a bomb’
The true story of two strangers and an extraordinary act of courage
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Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · 22/03/2026
In which I reveal myself to be an Angry Local Person who points at potholes as.ft.com/r/860738a7-8...
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We should all be playing pothole politics
[FREE TO READ] Living in the ‘Potswolds’ has made me one of the Angry Local People pointing at our damaged roads
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Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I threw a Martha-Stewart-inspired Midnight Omelette Party, managed to get 30 people to come along, was allowed to write 2700 words about it by the brilliant @harrietfl.ft.com and it somehow ended up on the front cover of FT Weekend. READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE as.ft.com/r/96e10343-7... (gift link 🍳)
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Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · 21/03/2026
It’s a beautiful weekend — and for 300 lucky people who click the free link it can begin with reading this absoluyely mad yet undeniably insightful story from today’s egg-themed magazine. Jemima’s fever dream brought to life as.ft.com/r/2472cb26-a...
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Can Jemima Kelly recreate Martha Stewart’s mythic midnight dinner party?
[FREE TO READ] Thirty guests. 111 eggs. A one-bed flat. A fearless host attempts the impossible omelette supper of her dreams
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Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · 17/03/2026
I have been let loose on another issue of global import: the rise of onions that won’t make you cry… or feel anything at all really as.ft.com/r/20f60742-4...
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What do we really gain from no-cry onions?
[FREE TO READ] Frankensteining low-pungency vegetables is popular, but with food the longer way round is often more enjoyable
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Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · 14/03/2026
Some great columns this weekend. Here we have Jancis Robinson on an unrelatable but intriguing dilemma: what to do when you have more wine than you have time left to drink it as.ft.com/r/9412d53f-4...
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What to do when you own more wine than you’ll ever drink
[FREE TO READ] A generation of serious collectors are confronting an enviable problem: more bottles than time
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Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · 10/03/2026
Forgot my headphones for the train (sad) but turns out the people sat behind me are work colleagues on the brink of affair (or currently affairing - hard to say for sure but the energy is so potent I think not) Who needs podcasts! The world is full of wonders for those with ears to hear them!
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Paul Laity @paullaity.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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Martha’s rule may have saved 400 lives so far in England, figures show
Exclusive: System brought in after death of 13-year-old is helping ‘transform culture’ of NHS, says patient safety director
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Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · 08/03/2026
This week’s guest restaurant review is about a cheap chain restaurant in an Abu Dhabi mall. If you’re thinking “that won’t move me greatly” you’d be very wrong!!! as.ft.com/r/37cca3fb-5...
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Notebook, Abu Dhabi: the Keralan chain restaurant where the UAE’s working classes eat
[FREE TO READ] Forget the flash options. This Malayalee mainstay in a mall is your key to the city
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Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · 01/03/2026
Do you really have something better to be soon with your Sunday than mastering the art of laminated potatoes? as.ft.com/r/d49bca71-f...
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The winter-defying joy of perfectly layered potatoes
[FREE TO READ] A detailed guide to cooking Dauphinoise, Pommes Anna and other laminated delights
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Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · 28/02/2026
We have guest restaurant reviewers in for the next three weeks, all in places we might struggle to get @jayrayner1.bsky.social to without blowing the full weekend budget. First up, this brilliant piece on how to open a hit restaurant in Ukraine as.ft.com/r/62ed053a-0...
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Musafir, Kyiv: It takes guts and good generators to run a buzzy restaurant in wartime Ukraine — review
[FREE TO READ] Against all odds, Kyiv’s restaurant scene is thriving
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a swarm of autumn bugs @facefullabugs.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got
Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 

The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’
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Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · 21/02/2026
I had the pleasure (?) of accompanying Jay on this weekend’s review. While I am disappointed he didn’t include my incisive attempt at restaurant criticism (“the loos were really cold”) it’s nonetheless a very good piece
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Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · 21/02/2026
“I dont see myself making a Christams in Paradise 2, OK?” FT reporting 🤝 a real life Caribbean crime drama - the perfect match as.ft.com/r/c83adbba-d...
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The man who saw too much
[FREE TO READ] After decades chasing stars and scrambling for financing, Philippe Martinez became an unlikely crusader
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Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · 18/02/2026
“Everything is copy” - which to a food editor means if you mention in passing that you really enjoyed your dinner, there’s a 50/50 chance it will end up on our recipe page. With thanks to @janinegibson.ft.com in this case as.ft.com/r/b97949b2-6...
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Recipe: The FT Weekend editor’s go-to crispy chicken and rice
[FREE TO READ] abc kitchens’ arroz con pollo is a dish that many diners dream of recreating. Now you can
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Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · 18/02/2026
This is still less embarrassing than when I bought myself a nice ring I’d seen my friend wearing - only to discover it was her and her girlfriend’s (matching) engagement ring
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Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · 17/02/2026
It is a really good film!
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Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · 16/02/2026
It stopped raining for 15 minutes today so I went for a little walk and immediately fell over in the mud. Now I am home, it is raining again and nothing has changed except my clothes are covered in mud.
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Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · 16/02/2026
I have thought about it carefully and decided that, for the sake of my mental health during rainmageddon, I’m just going to pretend I never read this. as.ft.com/r/4e857ae2-3...
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Are we killing birds with kindness?
[FREE TO READ] New evidence suggests that feeding our feathered friends is spreading disease and diminishing numbers. But stopping seems cruel
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Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · 15/02/2026
A welcome sighting of the rare, endangered (and sadly no conservation status given) “let’s get a bottle” lunch @henrymance.ft.com as.ft.com/r/26713c1c-4...
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 14/02/2026
You should definitely consider picking up a Weekend FT today, because it's the magazine MAPS special. Radical cartography, maps that changed the world, an FT reader competition that almost started a war, they don't love you like i love you, MAPS! www.ft.com/content/efab...
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Maps remade
An FT Magazine special feature on how to map a changing world
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 08/02/2026
Is it a tradition? Or is it just what @jayrayner1.bsky.social did? Is that the same thing?
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 04/02/2026
Avengers Assemble II: Even More Avengers; And More Assemblies.
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Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · 04/02/2026
i can't add much to this without the risk of sounding embarrassingly gushing. safe to say i am delighted that @nigella.bsky.social will be joining us, and April can't come soon enough!
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Reminds me of a very similar bit of training female members of the British secret service were given during WW2: "Don't ask a man who works for their government what's happening. Confidently tell him something you know to be inaccurate, and he will be forced to correct you".
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Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · 23/01/2026
Do you do a job *in* the hospitality industry? Is there a trend you've noticed on the ground that no one is reporting on yet? Please tell me about it harriet dot fitchlittle at ft dot com and maybe it could become one of our Insider's Notebook pages! Some writing experience necessary
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Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · 20/01/2026
spare a thought this morning for the part-time tiktok comedians looking bleary eyed on the tube after spending all night perfecting their first dance parody videos. content sleeps for no man.
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
...and he surprised me in many more ways than just his outfit!
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Josh Gabert-Doyon @joshgd100.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Wrote about a new data centre proposed as part of the Truman Brewery redevelopment. Bit of a sub-plot here: a battle between the independent Tower Hamlets mayor and the Labour central government as.ft.com/r/0e720ddc-5...
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Data centre plan provokes anger over future of former Truman Brewery
[FREE TO READ] East London landmark is latest site in capital to be identified for high-tech redevelopment
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kadhim @kadhim.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Only a few days left to apply for the FT's Paul McClean Graduate Trainee programme -- deadline is 23:59pm on 8 January. I can't overstate what a great opportunity it is. Happy to chat if you're wondering about whether to apply. job-boards.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
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Paul McClean Graduate Trainee
London
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Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · 27/12/2025
J is for January and J is for JOY🤸‍♂️🪩 There's an all-new Appetites special in FTWeekend today and it's full of things to cook during the cold season - including a beautiful colour-coded calendar to last you the entire month. A good day to buy a paper! www.ft.com/joyofjan
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Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · 19/12/2025
Very fun Q&A happening right now with @jayrayner1.bsky.social @timhayward.bsky.social and Bee Wilson. Including an unwelcome answers to my question about whether it is ok to leave your Christmas ham out on the side all Christmas. www.ft.com/content/13dd...
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Submit your questions to Jay Rayner, Tim Hayward and Bee Wilson: What should I cook this festive season?
Take part in a live Q&A with three star FT food writers today at 11am GMT
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Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · 17/12/2025
Please tell these three wise food writers what troubles you at Christmas - eg the gymnastics of getting food to the table still hot, the sorrow of dry meat... - and they will give you very good answers.
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Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Incredible, intensely moving piece. Astonishing courage from one man, and a very sad ending for another as.ft.com/r/74c0df5a-4...
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‘It’s just a bomb’
[FREE TO READ] The true story of two strangers and an extraordinary act of courage
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Madison Marriage @madisonmarriage.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
If you work in or are interested in education, do give this a read. This investigation is about morals, money and misogyny (at an elite British institution famed for its feminist heritage) and several brave sources risked their careers to speak openly with us: on.ft.com/3XQUqDD @antoniacundy.ft.com
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The elite British private school that lost its way in Singapore
Former staff allege bullying, misogyny and safeguarding lapses at the city-state outpost of North London Collegiate School
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 13/12/2025
A gorgeous, gorgeous column by @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social about delicious food, parenting grown up children and being right. Three subjects very dear to my heart as.ft.com/r/e60ecf71-b...
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Help! My children have got opinions about where to eat
[FREE TO READ] Surely a restaurant critic has earned the right to decide on dinner?
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
"The Guardian called him a ‘mystic’, and Intel execs commissioned a caricature of him as a many-armed deity, each hand clutching fags and pints." An extraordinary profile by Tamlin Magee of his father, Michael, the technology journalist who became a leading figure in British occultism.
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Marina O'Loughlin @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
www.ft.com/content/420f... This is SO brilliant: Susie Wiles by Kellyanne Conway; Bad Bunny by Rita Moreno; Nigel Farage by Michael Gove; Zohran Mamdami by Bernie Sanders! WHAT a line-up 👏👏👏
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The FT Influence List 2025
Who are the people who shaped the world this year?
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Harriet Fitch Little @harrietfl.ft.com · 04/12/2025
We've put together a package of all Jancis Robinson's festive wine recommendations for the year. And still two more entries to come! www.ft.com/content/499d...
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Jancis Robinson’s festive wine recommendations
Her top sparkling, white, rosé and orange wines plus a selection of affordable wines
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 03/12/2025
**FT GRAD SCHEME** applications are now open. Incredible opportunity for young wannabe hacks. Spread the word: job-boards.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 02/12/2025
Legado in Shoreditch takes Best New Opening for 2025 and St John wins the Judge's Choice. Find out who else triumphed at the inaugural FT Weekend Business Lunch Awards, hosted in London by our critic Jay Rayner on.ft.com/4ixBlzB
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St John and Bouchon Racine among winners at the FT Weekend Business Lunch Awards
Legado in Shoreditch takes Best New Opening for 2025
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