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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

OK, important question. What’s your favourite posh crisps flavour? And the worst? 🙏for an article

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

What would you like to be given for Father’s Day? I’m compiling a list.

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

@nicmiller.bsky.social look what’s just arrived 🥰thank you for the tip. X

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Anyone spotted any watermelon radishes on sale right now? X

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Much talk about the new Golden Age of Train Travel. Now 42minutes in to a call to @greatwesternrailway.info to book the Night Riviera 🤷‍♀️- can’t be booked online, can’t email tickets, have to post them, now the payment system is down 🙇‍♀️

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Do you shop at Costco? What are your favourite products? I’d love to know. For an article. 🙏

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Is anyone else feeling rather chuffed that our Bank of England governor has gone on to be the Canadian PM? It’s like, aw, hasn’t he done well?

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

How do I tweak Google autofill? I’d really like it to suggest “thank you for inviting me” instead of “thanks for the invite”. 😒

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Leigh woods. Apparently you can infuse a broth with Turkey Tail fungus.

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

More cheeringly, I seem to have a new child.

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Comparing the new Leon potato waffles to the supermarket version. Feeling depressed.

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Question for parents: what would like to be bought for Mother’s Day? (Apart from world peace obv: I’m after something that can be wrapped.) for a piece. Thank you. 🙏

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Booked a weekend in Montreal after a wedding in New England. Any tips on the best location in the city to stay? 🙏

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Google just offered to write the reply to an email for me. It did an eerily good job. I’m now feeling grubby.

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Does anyone know anyone who knows about short acting courses (for trained actors) in New York? 🙏

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

‘Contempt is a dangerous way to lead a country’: here is the sermon that enraged Donald Trump

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Did some things not on my To Do list. Added them to the list so I could cross them off.

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Huge fan of @vicderbyshire.bsky.social ‘s political savvy and tough but fair interviewing style. Fantastic female role model. Is it wrong to think, also, “great frock on Newsnight tonight”?

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

YOU COME RIGHT OVER HERE AND EXPLAIN WHY THEY ARE HAVING ANOTHER YEAR – telegram from Dorothy Parker to Robert Benchley, New Year’s Eve

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

It’s my absolute worst job: culling cookbooks because 2000 is my ceiling (literally). Some writers - who I love - have seven, eight, nine books. They’ll bring out another next year. I just can’t keep them all. But which three, say, to hold on to? 😩

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

The kind of Christmas crafting I can get behind (h/t @sundownerstudio.bsky.social )

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

In other news Wordle 1,290 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Sooo… the owner of an Airbnb I booked has told me it’s no longer available (on Christmas Day, thanks for that). Now she wants me to cancel the booking so she doesn’t pay a fee. But it’ll go on my history so I’ll look unreliable. No biggie, maybe. But what would you do?

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Did I just see Jeremy Bowen quiz the new Syrian leader on women’s right to university education and then on alcohol laws like they are comparable??

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Where’s nice for supper near The Hampstead Theatre? Off to see The Invention of Love. 🙏

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

and here you can listen to me and William Sitwell have it out on the best and worst Christmas food podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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Which supermarket reigns supreme this Christmas?

Podcast Episode · The Daily T · 13/12/2024 · 47m

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Now imagining the hugs in the Today prog studio

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James D Kightly @jdkightly.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

1938 airline catering! From 'Flying' (UK) weekly magazine edited by W.E. Johns of 'Biggles' fame. Anyone able to advise any publications or writing on to early / pre-World War Two airline catering data, with actual menus or detail (rather than the usual breathless 'there's food for passengers!).

Page, dated 'October 22, 1938' of 'FLYING' magazine with several articles. of interest: "Aerial Dining IMPERIAL AIRWAYS, pioneers in aerial catering, announce further improvements in the excellent service. Victualling Clerks have been appointed at various points on the routes, and they will arrange the supplies of food which are taken aboard at these points. Formerly this task was entrusted to the steward on the aircraft concerned, but it is obviously advantageous to have a man on the spot for the purpose. It is intended to make a speciality of dishes peculiar to certain places. Also of gastronomic interest was the recent transport of oysters from Sidney to Singapore by air. They were packed in wet sea mud, in the shell, of course. We are not surprised to hear that they arrived quite safely."

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Does anyone else have “an Uber 5 minutes” in family slang? Which means, “in ten minutes, maybe fifteen”?

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

“To boldly go…” Do we care about split infinitives any more? Has language evolved so they are no longer “incorrect”? (I think so.) Do they make English less elegant or less clear?

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Cool hoodie man in front of me in train telling his mate how great frozen gooseberries are with cream. “They don’t go rock hard see?” Faith in this nation restored.

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Apparently, according to Bobby Groves from Chiltern Firehouse, the French and the Irish open oysters from the side, the Brits from the hinge.

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Overcome with nostalgia. Then and now.

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

It’s a long time since I’ve bought Quality Street. And I’m glad the new wrappers are recyclable. But… feeling nostalgic for the bling.

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Lovely panto alternative: Ballet Shoes at The National Theatre

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I don’t go to Partridges enough. Had forgotten how lovely it is. My supermarket of dreams.

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Pleased to hear marmalade sales are up thanks (presumably) to the Paddington film. #teamMarmalade

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Aaron Vallance @1dish4theroad.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

With all the new people over here, just thought I'd introduce this piece I was very proud to cowrite with @shahnazahsan.bsky.social. It's a story of two families - one Bangladeshi, one Jewish - united by experience of immigration, racism, kindness and food.👇 www.1dish4theroad.com/2019/11/shah...

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Curry and Kneidlach: A Tale of Two Immigrant Families ( - by Shahnaz Ahsan and Aaron Vallance)

When an unexpected coincidence reveals a remarkable story of two families - one Jewish, one Bengali - united by their experience of immigration, racism, kindness, and food. By Shahnaz Ahsan and Aaron ...

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Love doing the @telegraphnews.bsky.social Christmas Charity Phone In - just had a great chat with a lady who makes her Christmas cake every year to the recipe in a 50 year old Kenwood Chef book. Anyone out there got one of the right vintage?

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Heading in to @telegraphnews.bsky.social to (wo)man the lines for the Christmas Charity Appeal now - call 0800 117 118 to donate and I’ll throw in all the cooking tips you like ❤️🙏

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Waiting for the next train to London. Not fancying my chances of a seat.

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Xanthe Clay @xantheclay.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Brandy creams tasted ✔️with the help of the razor sharp palate of @mimiavery.bsky.social (who picked out calvados at ten yards)

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