Sharp Cheddar Ramp Cheese Straws Inspired by my Aunty Gweneth’s recipe, these crisp, savoury cheese straws get a spring update with sharp cheddar, black pepper, mustard, and finely chopped ramps.

Ramps had other plans, so I pivoted. Took inspiration from my Aunty Gweneth’s cheese straw recipe and made my own spring version with ramps. Crisp, savory, and very hard to stop eating.

#Substack #Ramps #SpringCooking #GlutenFree #Recipe

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Ramps, Scarcity, and Spring Desire How a wild Appalachian leek became a seasonal obsession

Every spring, ramps return with the energy of a limited drop.

This week’s post is about the wild leek, the legend, and the politics around who gets access, who gets priced out, and how quickly seasonal desire can turn into excess.

#FoodCulture #Ramps

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I didn’t measure anything. I just kept adjusting it until it felt right.

Citrus Chutney, Somewhere In Between Something about kept me thinking... what if...

I said I wasn’t making a recipe.
Anyway… chow became chutney 😭

#TastefullyCandyce #FoodCulture #SeasonalEating #FlavorLab #Condiments #Recipes

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Small. Fuzzy. Green. Slightly warm from the sun. You’ve Never Actually Tasted an Almond Before

I thought I knew what almonds tasted like.

Turns out… I didn’t.

Green almonds, diaspora, seasonality, and the politics of what we eat.

New piece just dropped.

#FoodPolitics #SeasonalEating #TastefullyCandyce #FoodCulture #DiasporaFood

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🥕 Carrot Cake Butter A soft, spiced, Easter table essential

I made this with homemade butter and… I fear I’ve changed as a person

#FoodPolitics #TasteCulture #FoodWriting #SpringRecipes

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The Political Life of the Easter Carrot From peasant food to chocolate icon, how a root vegetable became part of a global belief system

The Easter carrot isn’t random.
It’s a symbol shaped by medieval poverty, Dutch nationalism, wartime propaganda, and a cartoon rabbit that lied to everyone.

Food becomes politics. Politics becomes culture.

New piece 👇🥕

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The Food Politics of Mâche I came across mâche this week and didn’t expect the history that came along with it.

So mâche doesn’t look like a political ingredient…but neither do most things that carry history

Obviously I wrote about it 🌿

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mâche 🌿
soft, buttery, unbothered
kale could never

#foodtok #ingredienttok #tastefullycb #greens #foodwithpersonality

🍓 Pineberry Lemon Vanilla Chutney with Calabrian Chilli Soft, citrusy, slightly floral, and finished with a little heat

This shouldn’t work, but it does…

Pineberry chutney with lemon, vanilla, and Calabrian chilli… try it, it’s wonderfully surprising! #recipes

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The Strawberry 🍓 That Lied to Me What pineberries reveal about how we see, taste, and misunderstand food

What if the problem isn’t the fruit… but what we expect it to be? I wrote about pineberries today, check it out if you’re curious! open.substack.com/pub/tasteful...

The Mandarinquat Experiment Brown butter vanilla curd from a citrus hybrid that looks like fan fiction.

Mandarinquats look like citrus fan fiction. So naturally I turned them into brown butter vanilla curd.

Recipe and kitchen story below.

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Have you ever heard of a mandarinquat? I might turn these into curd… #citrus #fooddiscovery #farmermarketfind #foodtok #fruit

What exactly is a mandarinquat? A tiny citrus hybrid with a surprisingly big story about agriculture, markets, and access.

Somehow I’ve ended up down a fascinating rabbit hole about mandarinquats. They look like a tiny mandarin & kumquat baby & somehow taste like both. I wrote about them this week and currently testing a mandarinquat recipe for Sunday. Check it out if you’re interested! open.substack.com/pub/tasteful...

The Frankenfruits Are Delicious How hybrid fruit became one of the most delicious experiments in agriculture.

This week I learned:
• every navel orange is a clone
• a man spent 40 years matchmaking fruit trees
• pineberries taste like pineapple but look like ghost strawberries

The produce aisle is stranger than we think.

I wrote about hybrid fruit 🍓

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Kiwi berries are out here getting rejected at borders like exes without visas. Even tiny fruit isn’t safe from trade policy and paperwork.
#foodpolitics #kiwiberries #globaltrade #tastefullycandyce

lol you should try it though!!! ✨✨✨

Samin Nosrat’s Tips for Hosting a Stress-Free Dinner Party Hosting can be stressful, but this seasoned culinary expert has a few tricks up her sleeve to make throwing a dinner party fun for you and your guests.

Every Monday night, Samin Nosrat cooks for some of her closest friends. She used to let the pressure of impressing her loved ones with a spectacular spread get in the way of her having a good time. But she's learned to enjoy hosting with these tips.

Breakfast shouldn’t be this seductive… but here we are. 🍳

Toasted pita, a lake of hummus, one reckless sunny egg and a scandalous spoonful of chili garlic crisp. This is your sign to become that breakfast person.

#breakfasttok #eggtok #hummustoast #chilicrisp #drippyeats #comfortfood #easyrecipes

You can eat it! The jelly is safe because the leaves are only steamed, not eaten raw–—mostly flavour, but a tiny bit of nutrients too.

Okay, so… I may have just invented the most unexpected marshmallow ever. 🍋 Soft, pillowy, and made with my mum’s old-school method—but flavored with ponzu, miso, lemon zest, and vanilla. Sweet meets savory meets umami. Would you try it?

#marshmallows #foodie #ponzu #sweetandsavory #homemade

You’re right—raw tomato leaves (and green tomatoes) have alkaloids. Steeping mellows them, and you’re only using the infusion, not the leaves themselves. Like rhubarb, it’s all about prep + portion.

You’re welcome!! And stay tuned, I’ll definitely be posting more… not everything will be recipe based, but a good portion will be since my content is mostly about food 😊✨✨

It starts here… with tomato leaves you’d never expect to use. Steeped, sweetened, and transformed into a jelly that tastes like summer in a jar. 🌱 #JamMaking #JellyMaking #Condiments #TomatoLeaf #CulinaryCurious

Strange Pairings, Good Stories🥤📘

Today’s lineup “There Are Rivers In The Sky” + Strange Water on the balcony. Daisy wanted a cameo, but the bees had casting rights. 🐶 🐝

#Books #BookClub #BalconyReads #SundayReadingClub

This is so awesome 🙌🏽

This is my first 🗣️SMOOOOOTH OPERATION 🎤 😅😅✨✨

My dog thinks kohlrabi is a toy. Honestly? She’s not wrong. In the U.S., this vegetable gets treated like an alien when in Germany or India it’s just… Tuesday dinner.


#CSABox #FarmToPeople #FoodPolitics #Foodie #Dinner

Everything bagel isn’t for everyone. My mum and sister prefer the sweeter ones as well!

Your bagel isn’t just breakfast. It’s migration, culture, and politics baked in. 🥯 #FoodPolitics #Bagels #Foodie