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Month: December 2015

Ten cookbooks, #10
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Ten cookbooks, #10

December 16, 2015February 14, 2021 Matt Inwood 5 mins read

For the best part of two years, I’ve been art-directing and designing for the digital cookbooks start-up, 1000 Cookbooks. It’s been a fascinating and extremely […]

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Mum, I’ll remember you by those same things that have always reminded me of you: the cherry blossom each spring, pulling blackberries in late summer, the cascading scent of rose, soft and pink above a floor of broken eggshell, and knee-high grass.
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I’ll find you in the twinkling eyes and mischievous smiles of your granddaughters and through the shimmering soft shadows of a net curtain. Through light bulbs hung bare, sticks of coloured chalk and long-soak bath water in enamel tubs, perfumed by Imperial Leather. There too, in late-night bowls of warm-milk cornflakes; off-license treats of fondant chocolate and bags of pork scratchings; in cake-mix pastes of sugar and butter; in cherryade and ginger-beer and cream-soda thirsts.
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I’ll hear you in the quiet of a ticking clock, and in the quietest of quiets, once more sat next to you as you sleep.
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I’ll touch you when I hold the hand of my children who are also you, and of a wife who will hold on to me to remember you, too.
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I’ll feel closest to you with photos and with words and with memories that have already lost a little of their shape, sharpness and certainty, but remain no less you.
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I’ll sit with you again and again and again. Sleep for as long as you need now. I’ll be here: light, light, no longer dark.
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Sundowner, Bradford-on-Avon
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Goodbye sweet Rosie, you will be missed by so many, but forever be remembered and loved. 💙
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I always had so many words for you and yet shared with you so few: you were tired so quickly, so often asleep and so many times just wanting to sit with a silence that we were both happy to share: I loved those quiet hours by your side. And I always had so many words to write about you and yet now – ink-stained but fountainless – I know not where they all reside, only that they are most likely hiding, not lost. I once found words in a tissue you held onto in your sleep; found them again in the fold of your pillow; and had ready an essay of love, built around the spoon and straw with which we fed you, as your life crept into its final dusk hours. I was left with so little to record new moments of the present towards the end, and yet you so often resisted revisiting the past. You seemed content with less, as less became all that we had left. And yet that less was so intensely felt by us all. You shared those last new moments with each of us by your side. Our pain wasn’t your pain at the end; your comfort was our only comfort. Your smile and that twinkle in your eye fluttered in those final hours and your hand was in each of ours, as we loved and stroked you gently into sleep. We’ll miss you so much.
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Mum died two weeks ago, surrounded by love, and time has stood more than a little still since. I have shared so many pictures and words about her here in the past. So many of you always left such kind comments. Moving on means marking her passing here, with thanks to those who already knew and to those who have been so kind and supportive these last six or so months as we so closely kept hold of her. ❤️
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Seasons change
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The joys of pancake at @avonfieldxtheoldtownhall. Always visit on an empty stomach and always leave with a full and happy heart and Tupperware! Don’t miss out on their Pancake Day specials both at the Town Hall and over at @avonfieldkitchen.
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Thank you to everyone who joined me for today’s phone photography workshop. Blood orange (thank you @beththefreerangechef), fennel, burrata and watercress salad. 🧡❤️💚 Another workshop date soon to be scheduled for the end of March.
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Day 8 of shooting @beththefreerangechef’s #RetreatKitchen cookbook. So many lovely recipes… just a few left to go and will really miss these dishes, back-to-back days of this friendship and this talented soul in the kitchen whilst I 📸 in the front window. Can’t wait to see this book out next year. @quartobooksuk
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Shooting Day 7 (possibly 14, can’t quite remember) with @beththefreerangechef for her beautiful book in the making, #RetreatKitchen for @quartobooksuk. Rhubarb out and crème fraiche and almonds both blushing. #cookbook
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One of the most impressive places I visited last year with my camera was right on my doorstep: @longssteepleashton. A really impressive team, with great knowledge and a passion for what they do. A ‘pub’ pub that just happens to serve absolutely cracking food too.
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My next phone photography workshop is on Saturday 7th February. I share all I know about making food — not to mention people and other pretty things — look as good as you possibly can during five hours of Zoom workshop (half-hour break in the middle). There is a recording available for two weeks after the workshop to all who attend or for those unable to join me on the day. Link to book via my Story, above. #MattInwoodMasterclass
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