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Espresso martini to finish a few hours of shooting yesterday at @londonkindred. Beautiful food and drink and complete interiors and tabletop envy throughout. Have booted caffeine once more into touch and so enjoyed just smell and prettiness on this final item of the day.
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#londonkindred #martinitime🍸 #espressomartini #coffeegram #drinkstagram #barlife #cocktailsofinstagram #tabletopdecor #fromabove #flatlaylife #coffeelover #espressoyourself

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Spiced cauliflower bao buns at @londonkindred today. Totally vegan and delicious. Beautiful food from @kindredchef.
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#bao #baobuns #londonkindred #baobao #vegan #plantbasednutrition #plantbasedfood #eatyourgreens #veganlife #steamedbuns

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So good to be back at @londonkindred and with @kindredchef’s Turkish Eggs. A different and intimate kind of working and community space in Hammersmith, with beautiful food.
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#TurkishEggs #eggseggseggs #turkishstyle #kindredhammersmith #kindred #breakfastandbrunch #breakfastmenu

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Political questions can be complex. Right or wrong are rarely indelibly etched in black and white. Better and worse are often only properly measured once good or bad decisions are enacted and by then it’s too late to revert or set a new course without undermining public confidence. Or so we are led to believe. I used to think that you needed great intelligence to understand the workings of power, the creation of rules and laws, and the distribution of a country’s resources. I felt I lacked the skill to articulate and effectively reason what I believed to be right.
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Belief is a huge part of politics because so much political thinking is built around ideology. When we vote we put our faith in perhaps little more than a promise on a piece of paper or a few promoted posts on social media. And because our beliefs can be so strong, when that system should fail or falter, our positions can be so deeply entrenched that what is right or wrong can matter less than what is left or right; red or blue.
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When parliament debates whether money should be spent to feed the children of the poorest families the choice is a very simple one. It really is.
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What is being asked is do we want to look after the most vulnerable in our society and keep children from going hungry. Those who answer no might reason that this will merely be a £20million sticking plaster (happy though they seem to defend the less adhesive qualities of a spend far, far greater on state apparatus failing to test, track and trace our way through a health crisis). But even a sticking plaster will stop a wound from bleeding and keep a cut from infection.
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They answer ‘no’ because ‘yes’ is to admit that poverty has been allowed to flourish under their governance and that a project of austerity kicked the worst-off in this country harder and more consistently than anyone else. ‘Yes’ would be the start of something to which they are ideologically opposed. They say lunch for a hungry child is a luxury that this country cannot afford.
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Engaging with politics does not always require us to understand something in great detail. It is sometimes just about having the capacity to care.

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Saffron tagliatelle with ricotta and crispy chipotle shallots from the new @ottolenghi and @ixta.belfrage book ‘Flavour’. Such a wonderful dinner that we’ve just had it again for lunch. The bursts of coriander, cumin, chipotle and maple syrup from those shallots is really rather wonderful.👌
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#OttolenghiFlavour #ottolenghi #ottolenghirecipe #foodfromabove #flatlaystyle #flatlayfood #lunchfortwo #lunchgram #tagliatelle #pastalovers #pastagram

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When your condiments way outclass your pork pie. Courgette chutney from @sammisummers was supposed to stretch further than just one meal: I’m fairly sure I could alleviate several summer courgette gluts in one week on this stuff... 😬😋 Thank you, Sammy. ❤️ Perfect pork pie plate from the lovely @mahamx.
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#preserves #porkpie #lunchtimespecial #chutney #courgetteglut #courgetterecipes #simplepleasures

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My friends at @blackboxcake launched their Masterclass series last month. The team behind Black Box Cake are Christine and Phil of @peboryon and their expertise stretches back many years of award-winning patisserie and cake making, television and incredible one-off creations. Their know-how and methods really are worthy of the title ‘masterclass’. They have episodes on cakes, preserves, buttercreams, baking science and common baking fails. Accumulatively, it’s such a huge wealth of knowledge. You can buy these individually or together as a box set. The first of their masterclass videos and a perfect taster of the content and quality of the others is in their first free-to-all episode, ‘Best Toffee Sauce Ever’. And it is just that. I got @tilly.inwood to make this jar here, and laid on enough spoons for everyone to enjoy while adhering to rule-of-six silverware guidelines. Do go and take a look and link up from my story, above, to find this first masterclass video for yourself and support a fabulous small independent creative team in the process.
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#BlackBoxCake #toffeesauce #toffee #pastrymasterclass #sweettooth #pastrychef #patisserie

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Old Mother Hubbard lunch, à la @nigellalawson: spaghetti, Marmite and butter upon butter was all that was needed. So good. (And yesterday’s new charity shop purchases put straight to good use.)
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A huge thank you to @twophotographers2020 (@clinchpics and @joannamaclennanphotography) for such a hugely enjoyable hour of Q&A about my photography this morning. And thank you to everyone who joined. If you’re interested in joining a community of photographers and signing up to some of the great value workshop sessions that Tim and Joanna run then do go and follow them for future events. They offer one-to-one mentoring too. They have a huge wealth of experience between them, but more than that they will freshly inspire and encourage you to love creating images. For those asking, if you missed this morning’s Q&A, you can join their private Facebook community and catch the recording there along with much more.
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#spaghetti #marmitespaghetti #pastagram #pastalover #foodfromabove #flatlayfood #marmite #loveorhate #foodphotography #shotoniphone

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A second helping of dishes from @ubchef, which is the brainchild of @chefrobertthompson: a project brought to fruition due to his Isle-of-Wight-based restaurant, Thompson’s, not able to be open for service. Pictured here are Roasted Pumpkin Arancini; Tarte Fine of Jerusalem Artichokes; and Black Forest.
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Menus for the weeks ahead are available online and you can order courses and extras to suit you or your party’s needs. I’ll pop a link into my story, above. Thanks so much, Robert, for the #gifted introduction to your food.
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#ubchef #restaurantathome #thompsonsrestaurant

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Thrilled to be joining @twophotographers2020 tomorrow morning at 10am (London time) for a Zoom Q&A about my photography. Tim and Joanna invited me to discuss the images that I create and whatever else their community throws at me. You’re all very welcome to join up via these login details below (if you can access Instagram from a desktop computer then you should easily be able to copy and paste). Tomorrow morning, 10am London time.
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LOGIN DETAILS:
https://zoom.us/j/92323357576?pwd=QXgvczc4THB4S0RicW1OdnBWUllQUT09
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Meeting ID: 923 2335 7576
Passcode: 586152

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Girls finally back to school after their isolation spell. Only one of us in mourning... little Safi. 😢
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#retrieversofinstagram #goldenretriever #goldiesofinstagram #puppyretriever

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