Brilliant vegetable biryani A labour of love AND a showstopping dish for party season

hello party people and homebodies, if you’re looking for a recipe for this christmas/nye/holiday season that is also a showstopper, consider my brilliant veg biryani that is time consuming but gratifying to make! this is also my last newsletter for 2025, become a paid subscriber, support my work! ty

Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

Parasite — Chlorophyll homepage cargo.site

i wrote a short story for chlorophyll mag called Parasite on loneliness, hunger, and monstrosity and i think you should all read it!

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Art Xmas prints, choose from wine/jelly/sugar/swiss roll – A4/£35 Cabbage print (portrait) – A5/£23 Cabbage print – A5 in portrait, printed on premium off-white 250gsm uncoated, light…

hi i'm doing xmas prints so i can make some money this december - it has been tough with writing, so here's some art from me! choose from four A4 prints (or get them all) of wobbly jelly, a solitary bag of sugar, a hand claw holding orange wine, and a lush swiss roll

apoorvasripathi.com/home/art/

you can also support our work by donating to us 🫂 all deets on our website

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issue 2 of chlorophyllmag.com is out tomorrow featuring a roster of brilliant writers.

we’ll also be drip feeding the issue: essay/fiction/poem at regular intervals so you keep coming back! we’ll send snippets straight to your email as and when a new piece releases, so join our mailing list 💌

shelf care: detours along the way (#13) Recommendations on reading and consuming + a small surprise for paid subs

shelf care is back with recommendations on what to read, and with a surprise for paid subs <3 you can opt to receive a small print for christmas/new year (depending on mail times) for the small price of only a postage fee. there are two options to choose from!

One-pan cauliflower caponata A stunning new staple in my house this winter

ive stopped sharing my newsletter here because it didn't do much for me or the newsletter and yet i cannot resist. a bonus recipe for paid subscribers featuring cauliflower caponata, a one-pan no-stir recipe for cold weeknights

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One thing and another This work is endless – support me and become a paid subscriber

before i take some time off, a missive on why you should become a paid subscriber to my newsletter, shelf offering. one perk i forgot to add was that this automatically gets you into the workshops, talks, and discussions at FFF. plus a zine that's incoming EOY

me too!!

Pies, loneliness, pies Sugar and solitariness in Wayne Thiebaud's paintings, plus a writer community announcement

if you’re in london, i urge you to go to the Wayne Thiebaud exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery from this Friday onwards. this is the first ever museum show of his work in the UK and ahead of that, i’m resharing my essay on his artwork and life via sugar and solitariness. read, enjoy, go!

looking forward to this being my bedtime reading tonight!

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thank you!

thanks Chris, am really grateful for your presence 🫂

obv losing my mind and will

im not going to stop writing because that will make me equally, if not more, unhappy. the 5 people who read me have been with me since the start and im grateful for their presence. my question is about the current state of the media ecosystem as an individual writer existing among other indv writers

i approach every topic i write about with the same intent and seriousness and then i see half-baked takes and mediocre writing churning so much praise and money. what is the point of writing anymore? do i have to talk about every essay i write on tiktok/instagram to see any response whatsoever?

or simply accept my fate and die penniless? im tired of writing well thought out essays that get opened by 5 people while equally hearing "oh you're such a good writer" by people/peers who don't care about what i actually write let alone pay for it. i simply dont know what to do moving forward

5 years of independent newsletter writing and it's becoming more and more difficult to continue in a self-sustaining way unless i have some sort of following that will pay for any kind of shit i write. unfortunately i dont possess the personality of a cult leader. should i bemoan my lack of guile?

shelf care: burnt and burnished (#12) Recommendations on reading and consuming, plus the monthly crossword

september roundup: links on some interesting articles that i’ve curated from the internet, a compilation of what i’ve cooked and consumed, a podcast rec (!!) and a picture of my cat. become a paid subscriber if you are nosey and wanna know what i’ve been upto. oh and solve the MONTHLY CROSSWORD

issue 2 cover reveal ‼️ we publish soon but in the meantime here’s our cover, a trompe l'oeil of posted notices and prints that plays with the flexibilities of language and the meanings (spoken and unspoken) you can find in words. give issue 1 a read while you wait 📰

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issue 2 cover reveal ‼️ we publish soon but in the meantime here’s our cover, a trompe l'oeil of posted notices and prints that plays with the flexibilities of language and the meanings (spoken and unspoken) you can find in words. give issue 1 a read while you wait 📰

chlorophyllmag.com

a farewell to neilson jersey milk chocolate bar fieldnotes on canadian chocolate discontinuations

this week on the newsletter, a field log of a disappearing canadian chocolate. on factory labour, snack historians, bloggers who track old candy labels down, and dubious statements from international corporations!
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What does it mean to be a woman in food writing? Join us Feminist Food Friends on 29 September for a conversation

join us on 29 september for a meet-and-greet with the FFF gang! come and tell us what you'd like to see from us? how would you like to participate? how can we support your work, too? ask us questions or just chat with us. register via link in the newsletter, and my paid subs go for free 💞

a bunch of us lovely talented people have formed Feminist Food Friends and there will be talks, discussions, workshops and more cool stuff to come! paid subscribers to shelf offering attend for free and for everyone else, an accessible ticket is available: luma.com/a4mibq9c

illustrations by me 🥰

a bunch of us lovely talented people have formed Feminist Food Friends and there will be talks, discussions, workshops and more cool stuff to come! paid subscribers to shelf offering attend for free and for everyone else, an accessible ticket is available: luma.com/a4mibq9c

illustrations by me 🥰

More than just Dal Apoorva Sripathi's quick and easy sundals using green lentils and chickpeas, plus a refreshing roasted peach and rosewater lassi.

for @vittles.bsky.social, i wrote on the joys of lentils via two recipes for making sundal, which is a dish that dares to be categorised into one thing but is actually many things – think beyond dal! this is my urging to you

i wrote about memento mori, weird art – an apron made out of fish, blocks of frozen fruits, Victorian hair tokens – and the beauty in bizarre things. please read and repost! (yes it's on substack)

Tomato season paneer curry Bursting with ripe tomatoes, onions two ways, and capsicum of all colours

for paid subscribers, a recipe for those abundant late season juicy tomatoes - turn them into curry!