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Commonplace Vol. 4 Issue 5
In which the writer encounters American food, and thinks about it a lot.
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Drew Shiel
Commonplace Vol. 4 Issue 1
Hello! This is a year-opening issue full of bits and pieces of stuff, rather than any single coherent topic. The stuff includes: Tesco stock, an annual…
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Commonplace Vol. 3 Issue 3
In which the writer engages in rambling about food production and camp cookery
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Drew Shiel
Commonplace Vol. 4 Issue 4
In which the writer rambles through this year's vegetable-growing, lamb and mutton, and lab-grown food.
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Commonplace Vol. 3 Issue 6
In which there is talk of harvest, of festivals, of foraging, and such.
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Commonplace Vol. 4 Issue 2
In which the writer thinks about his own history with food, and pokes some news items.
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Commonplace Vol. 3 Issue 4
In which the writer engages in some very precise rambling, if such a thing exists, about sauces
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Commonplace Vol. 4 Issue 6
In which the writer provides some recipes, and answers some questions
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Drew Shiel
Moving Out
Hi.
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Commonplace, Vol 2, Issue 5
In which the writer goes on about Lenten food, and a few more books.
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Commonplace, Vol 2, Issue 7
In which the writer looks back on six weeks of Lent, and then on Lent six hundred years ago.
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Commonplace, Vol 1, Issue 8
In which the writer answers some questions, and then hares off after an Irish word unused in a millennium
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