@KitchenBee

I write about food. And other things. Books inc Consider the Fork, First Bite. Founder of @TastEdFeed: taste education. Next: a cookbook. THE SECRET OF COOKING

Joined March 2010
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The charity @tastedfeed offer early educators and teachers support, training and resources to deliver a range of simple taste education lessons for children. Was brilliant to see the team’s work firsthand on a visit to the amazing Archfield House Nursery and Preschool in Bristol
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🧵1/2 This is such an important topic - many children & young people do not like plain water and it tastes different depending on supply - with this inconsistency being problematical for some. SO many benefits to liking and drinking enough water including healthy teeth
Bee Wilson@KitchenBee29 Nov 2024
How does water taste to you? We are going to create new @tastedfeed lessons, helping children develop a preference for plain water (+informing why clean water matters/how devastating it is to be without it). If anyone here has learned ways to enjoy water more, do tell me...
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A few things tried over the years in role as occupational therapist: Different temperatures including adding ice in fun shapes; filtering & involving children in process; drinking through and in/out of different cups/straws (including curly); sucking ice cubes/plain water ice pop
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Replying to @KitchenBee @LucastaHonoria @tastedfeed
The girl fills bottles with water at home when she knows we're going to Wales. She loves the taste of our hard water and really dislikes the taste of soft water. I agree. Also always fill up any spare bottles in the car when we drive through Malvern - the very best tasting water.
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Replying to @KitchenBee @Bookishcrick @ToppingsBath
Was lucky to pick one up in a charity shop for £2.50. It's brilliant. After cooking for 45 years I learned many new ideas. Read cover to cover, bought an instant pot, discarded unused pressure and slow cookers. (charity shops) and am enthused by cooking all over again
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Replying to @LucastaHonoria @KitchenBee @tastedfeed
To answer the question, some water tastes dusty to me. And some water tastes "sweet." Not like it has sugar in it, but by analogy it seems sweet. I don't know if kids talk about tastes this way, but I feel like I taste water on the back of my tongue more than on the front/sides.
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Art in jars 🇹🇷
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“If any food were a perfect candidate for changing our preferences, it’s beans,” @KitchenBee says. On this episode of The Opinions, she makes the case that these tiny legumes could help save the planet. Listen: nyti.ms/3Vc5Oca

Opinion | Beans, Beans, Magical Beans (Published 2024)

Could one tiny legume save the planet?

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The science of the food plus law, economics and politics. Such a positive day - in no small part due to superb leadership and chairing by the peerless @SheilaDillon - thanks @ImperialBiz and @imperialchepi for moving the conversation forward.
Sheila Dillon@SheilaDillon26 Nov 2024
What a day…. What a room. Every heavy hitter in the world was there with research/ insights / experience on how industrial food, politics & money create the ill health bedevilling the world. And to point the way for action. A privilege to be there.
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Replying to @Nigella_Lawson @KitchenBee
Such a lovely celebration - thank you! Over the moon you loved these eccentric recipes as much as me: I had such fun archivally foraging for them. Wondering if @NigelSlater might find them intriguing - can’t resist spreading the word about Agatha Christie’s hot bean salad ..
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And Producer Ciaran Bermingham has made Christopher Isherwood’s chocolate brownies for our discussion on writers’ favourite recipes…
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Bee is on tonight's @Bbcfrontrow. Her book is terrific. I found huge comfort and joy in it.
Bee Wilson@KitchenBee24 Apr 2023
Do you wish you cooked more but don't know where to start? I wrote THE SECRET OF COOKING for anyone who needs ideas for how to cook when you are tired/stressed/alone/have terrible knife skills/all of the above. Here are the covers! (@wwnorton & @4thEstateBooks)
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Here's my @guardian obituary - following a 'critical' tribute - of the novelist and poet Paul Bailey, "perfect" (according to @holysmoke) host of radio interview series Third Ear and @TheBookerPrizes-shortlisted author of Gabriel's Lament, who died aged 87 theguardian.com/books/2024/n…
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Tune in this evening to hear @KitchenBee discuss Sylvia Plath’s Tomato Soup Cake – and Vladimir Nabokov’s recipe for soft-boiled eggs – on @BBCFrontRow tonight.
Bee Wilson@KitchenBee18 Nov 2024
On top of all his other writing achievements, Vladimir Nabokov wrote the greatest ever recipe for a soft-boiled egg. It's one of the recipes by famous writers in this little volume which I wrote the foreword to. I'll be on @BBCFrontRow tonight talking about it w/ @JLQuoVadis
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And a very special #CookbookCorner shout-out to Sylvia Plath’s Tomato Soup Cake: A Compendium of Classic Authors’ Favourite Recipes, with a charming foreword by @KitchenBee. I couldn’t possibly love this book more! You might not want to eat all the recipes (one that transfixed me in horror was Noel Streatfield’s Filet de Bœuf aux Bananas, which begins “I have to admit that I am normally a very bad cook.”) but you’ll certainly want to read them. Absolutely ideal Christmas present!
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Have you ever wondered what your favourite classic authors cooked? Here's your chance to wine and dine with them in a new collection of their recipes, curated from archives, letters and diaries. Out 7 November, with a foreword by @KitchenBee. faber.co.uk/product/97805713…
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‘For all of her self-interest and avarice, Madame Restell does seem to have had one great and almost unheard-of quality in a 19th-century abortionist: she did not make a habit of killing her clients.’ Bee Wilson (@kitchenbee), in our new issue: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n20/…

Bee Wilson · Can that woman sleep? Bad Samaritan

For all of her self-interest and avarice, Madame Restell does seem to have had one great and almost unheard-of quality...

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Fascinating—how across the centuries authoritarians have tried to suppress & police women’s laughter because of its power. In Franco’s Spain & Afghanistan today women were/are not supposed to laugh in public -Laughing Kamala: A Medievalist’s Perspective medievalists.net/2024/10/lau…

Laughing Kamala: A Medievalist’s Perspective - Medievalists.net

Kamala Harris' laughter has stirred criticism that taps into centuries-old misogyny. This article links her detractors to medieval fears of humor’s power to challenge authority.

medievalists.net
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I am extremely excited to tell you that my book, 'John & Paul': A Love Story In Songs', will be published in Spring 2025. 🧵
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From beautiful picture books for children, stylish coffee table books, gift sets, collections, special clothbound editions of beloved classics, as well limited signed editions; explore our top picks to find the perfect gift this Christmas: bit.ly/3Rxva2Z
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