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i didn't do a huge amount of food writing this year, but i'm proud of everything i published at @vittleslondon. i can't pick my favourites but here is a thread of the most read - starting with this compilation of hyper regional chippy traditions https://vittles.substack.com/p/the-hyper-regional-chippy-traditions
the most widely shared, and i think the most important newsletter was this by @FowlMouthsFood on the erasure of Black voices within the restaurant and food media space. https://vittles.substack.com/p/vittles-612-black-erasure-in-the
she's not on social media anymore but jo fuertes's piece on bourdainification and gastrotourism was both incisive and made me snort laugh at various points whilst editing it https://vittles.substack.com/p/the-bourdainification-of-food-travel
one real pleasure of running @vittleslondon was working with new writers. this newsletter on the joy of cookbooks was @foodgeekgem's first piece of published food writing and i can't wait to read more from her https://vittles.substack.com/p/the-life-changing-magic-of-cookbooks
this beauty of this newsletter by @IsabelleOC was that it took a subject people think they know - foraging - and turned it on its head, revealing stories of south london's burgess park that barely see the light of day https://vittles.substack.com/p/reclaiming-the-city-the-foragers
both pieces that @rubytandoh bequeathed to vittles were immaculate, but her first piece on the food of care homes was both moving and redefined notions of what quality and 'good' cooking really look like https://vittles.substack.com/p/vittles-69-the-food-of-care-homes
the subject of gardening can often be treated in a very middle class, exclusive way, but @finney_clare 's expansive newsletter connected the personal with the political, spanning grief, mental health and land ownership https://vittles.substack.com/p/the-transformative-power-of-gardening
another piece that connected the personal with the political was @Kirsty_Maj0r 's newsletter on scouse, and how we cannot talk about food and health without also talking about capitalism. https://vittles.substack.com/p/finding-scouse-the-decline-of-a-liverpool
out of all the restaurants affected by covid-19 in london, none was more so than queensway's iconic mandarin kitchen, whose founder stephen cheung sadly died of the virus this year. @ysabellecheung told his story https://vittles.substack.com/p/the-story-of-mandarin-kitchen
