I've never seen anyone not named Karen voluntarily identifying as a Karen, you might want to read up on the meaning of it, hound, the original and current going definition.
Anna Jones is very much not my thing. I know how to cook, really well actually, conceited as that may sound. I like recipes that introduce something new and different (cuisine or ingredient) or figure out what I ate somewhere and recreate it, so definitely the Ottolenghi and similar corner. Most food writing atm is too much just putting together some high quality ingredients and that really doesn't require a recipe or it's plant based nonsense which is often not a meal or, rather, a really poor one nutritionally speaking (I love a carb but it can't be 99% carbs and call itself a meal).
Yes, I should have mentioned that the Aussies are a rare exception in still knowing to excite me with cooking, occasionally they pop up on the Australian bit of the Guardian but being opposite seasons can be annoying. The Delicious Australia site seems to be blocked outside of AU though
(or maybe Australia really doesn't exist 😱). Are there any newspapers online worth looking at time?
I also have a huge catalogue of cookbooks but I've bought less and less over the years (everyone seems to make a baking book, a vegetarian plant based book, and then either a time or money constrained version). And all the OG food bloggers I once liked seem to focus on books as above and only occasionally pop up to promote those books with meh recipes.
I've looked at eatyourbooks previously but I've got an old school colour coded post it bookmarks system so it just seemed an unnecessary expense but the community aspect might be worthwhile, I shall consider it. I always really liked the newspaper cookery sections as it moved along with the seasons though.
I really enjoyed the twill article mm47, the closing line really nailed my conundrums about workwear as high fashion. I have some twill that needs sewing into something, I should probably get on it.
I'm a bit worried about Thebe Magugu though, I worry he'll forever be a critical darling and struggling to financially build the brand out. When I ordered some of his items from his earlier collections (might have been the one that won the LVMH prize) I was rather disappointed in the fabrics, I should probably revisit, no one stocks it here. His last show was a presentation rather than show. I adored this look though.