Debora Robertson 🦀
@lickedspoon
Did I tell you I moved to France? I write about in my Substack Newsletter - https://tinyurl.com/mr3tdyvn.
Friday night dinner... Confit de canard with little potatoes, rapini with lemon, garlic and chilli. Twenty-five minutes from walking in the door to putting it on plates.
I will never get over being called insufficiently dialectical by gym bros for the revolution on here because I pointed out that structural factors disproportionately influence people's health behaviours
Any tips on where to eat lunch in Toulouse on a Monday very gratefully received.
This week I wrote about an aubergine and tomato stew from Béziers that I'm going to make all summer long. In your face, ratatouille. Also, the glory that is food message board aggro. deborarobertson.substack.com/p/food-message…
What do you do when your heart is in the South of France but your tomatoes are from Asda? I made these tomates à / Provençale - easy and good. Recipe here (free). deborarobertson.substack.com/p/when-bad-tom…
Made a bottom-of-the-salad-drawer soup - cabbage and leeks, with lardons, the end of a pot of fromage blanc, some chives from the garden, very simple and surprisingly good. Free recipe in my newsletter. deborarobertson.substack.com/p/gotta-use-it…
When we moved to France, I had to carve a garden out of a bamboo forest - and learn a whole new way of gardening in the process. I wrote about nurturing our French garden, planting plants and putting down roots for @GHmagazine google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t…
Completely unhinged. Trump has lost his mind.
Trump loses it at Peter Alexander: "What are you talking about? You oughta get out of here ... you're a terrible reporter. You don't have what it takes to be a reporter. You're not smart enough ... Brian Roberts and the people that run that place they ought to be investigated."
Congratulations to @lickedspoon who is a finalist for the 2025 Guild of Food Writers Awards! Debora Robertson has been shortlisted in the Self-Published Online Food Writer Award category for her Substack Newsletter: LickedSpoon. @GuildFoodWriter
This is nice. My Substack of recipes and stories from a village in the south of France has been nominated for a Guild of Food WRITERS @GuildFoodWriter award.
I wrote this for @spectator about why Oxfam’s bookshops have driven the second-hand trade out of business. spectator.co.uk/article/the-pr… I worried I may have been too harsh, but judging by the messages from bookshop owners I’ve received, I didn’t go anywhere near far enough.
Soup fit for a Comtesse, by @lickedspoon open.substack.com/pub/deborarobe…
Ah yes "Welcome to Saudi Arabia, come enjoy the World Cup stay for imprisonment for Tweeting about women's rights."
Friends, anyone want to go to the Champions League Arsenal v Dynamo Zagreb match tonight at the Emirates? Kick off 8pm, ticket £48. Row 5 on the halfway line and you get to sit next to my husband. Wish I could go... Go in my place. Let me know...
Met Nigel Farage once - he tried to talk to me about shooting. Very obvious almost immediately that he knew almost nothing about it all. Suspect he knows just as much about hunting and probably similarly clued up on farming. The countryside doesn’t need the guy.
Friends, would very much appreciate any recommendations for lovely places to stay in Marseille. Thank you. 🇫🇷
🎄 How to have overnight guests at Christmas without losing your mind | @lickedspoon telegraph.co.uk/christmas/0/ho…
He’s been! New video has landed!
Monday is looming. But at least we have a new Greggg video to look forward to in the morning.