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May 25

Some news abt a new thing... I've created a new space for my writing on Substack called A Day Well Spent. And - uh - it's not about travel or food. It's about seeking pathways to purposeful living. There's a lot to say. I'd love if you joined me there. leylakazim.substack.com

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Robbie Armstrong

@robbiejourno

Delighted to say

and I won an award for our

at last night’s Refugee Festival Scotland media awards 🥳

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Scottish Refugee Council

@scotrefcouncil

18h

Congratulations to @BBCRadio4’s @robbiejourno, plus Leyla, Ibrahim & Arij who are tonight’s winner in the Radio category! bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00 #RFSMediaAwards

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Leyla Kazim (@leyla.kazim) • Instagram reel

If you've ever wanted a peek at the bts

@MasterChefUK

... instagram.com/reel/Cti2px1oI Best gig in the world - my top tip, wear baggy pants

instagram.com

We did it 🥳

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Scottish Refugee Council

@scotrefcouncil

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Congratulations to @BBCRadio4’s @robbiejourno, plus Leyla, Ibrahim & Arij who are tonight’s winner in the Radio category! bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00 #RFSMediaAwards

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What a delightful afternoon hosting a cooking demo at the

stand

with

and

. A lot of fun and great chat. It's a good day to be 3 plates of cheese and 3 glasses of Prosecco rosé down ☀️

I am out and about wearing a dress that I really like but it has no pockets and honestly how is one expected to function at a reasonable level.

Although I probably should have stated that I was looking for London based, or those who could easily get to London.

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Wow, thank you so much for all these responses. Consider them noted!

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I've written a new piece on A Day Well Spent. I've only ever told a handful of people about this IRL over the years, usually to the response of 'What! I didn't even know that was a thing?!' It sure is and I do it daily. Sometime twice. shorturl.at/wBEU5

Wow, thank you so much for all these responses. Consider them noted! 🍷

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Jun 14

Twitter people: please could you tell me the people in media I need to know about (if I don't already) covering wine - wine journalists, wine writers, digital creators. It's for a thing - thank you so much

Jun 14

Simon Kuestenmacher

@simongerman600

Jun 13

A female GPS-tracked falcon flew from South Africa to Finland. In 42 days she flew over 10,000 km. That's 230 km per day. What have you achieved in the last 42 days? Source: buff.ly/3ArE2eq

Readers added context they thought people might want to know

This is not a falcon, but a European honey buzzard named "Päivi." The map shows her migration from South Africa to Finland April 15-June 1, 2015. Päivi received her transmitter at her nest in Vesilahti, Finland on August 13, 2013, and was last tracked in May 2019. luomus.fi/en/satellite-h… satelliitti.laji.fi/?lang=en&id=JX…

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Jun 13

I am very excited about hosting a cooking demo at the

@GranaPadanoDOP

and

@ProseccoDOC

stand

@TasteofLondon

on Thursday. Mostly because

@danilocortellin

will be rustling up a storm that includes these two ingredients - lucky us 🤌 It starts at 13:15, come say hi if you're around!

A Day Well Spent is only 13 days old and this is just the nicest thing ever.

Olia Hercules

@Olia_Hercules

Jun 12

Please help me spread the word about my work. June 16th workshop at my house unfilled as I failed to promote it due to disaster. Oliahercules.com/events thanking you in advance

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Of Cabbages and Kimchi by James Read

James Read

@jamesreadwrites

Jun 13

My book 'Of Cabbages & Kimchi' is now available in Australia! And by dint of that,

@Dymocksbooks

, where I was almost certainly browsing Redwall books as a nerdy 9 year-old 3 decades ago when I lived in Sydney

dymocks.com.au

Buy Of Cabbages and Kimchi by James Read, HardCover format, from the Dymocks online bookstore.

Jun 12

I have quite simply never seen so many snails in the garden. I wasn't aware I was farming them.

Jun 12

And here is a bumblebee drinking from the pond which has been like a Serengeti watering hole over the past few weeks of drought. Amazing to see all critters drinking from it from birds to insects to mammals to the neighbour's cat.

The waterlilies are also flowering and I'm not sure the day can be topped.

The iris in my little container pond I created two years ago is in flower for the first time AND now has raindrops on it and isn't it just exquisite #FlowerReport

My raspberries are almost ready for picking. Last year I harvested a whopping 2.7kg from just a few canes in a shady corner of my very small urban garden. I created a little video ode to my fave berry and 10 reasons why they are so great to grow: instagram.com/p/CtZRgTJI7Xr/

The rain is so very welcome but oh my god the snails! My beans! 😵

All gets sliced up and put in the freezer and will provide beautiful and truly whole grain lunches for the foreseeable.

Two sourdough bangers. It is the greatest food stuff in the world (Ok apart from cheese and wine) and I still can't believe I can make it. Freshly milled spelt, emmer and mulika wheat and some pre-milled strong white. So freaking tasty.

The Food Programme

BBC Radio 4 - The Food Programme, Learning to Eat Part 1 – Do Kids Need Special Food?

Today, in the first of 2 programmes looking at how we learn to eat,

@SheilaDillon

explores how toddlers can form healthy food habits in an environment so dominated by ultra-processed foods. 12:30 on

@BBCRadio4

and full version on

@BBCSounds

bbc.co.uk

Sheila Dillon explores how food habits are formed at home and nursery in the early years

Oh yes, it's great to see how much it's risen. I recommend the band for satisfaction purposes alone!

These have risen so well in the fridge overnight, they almost look like they've already been baked! Now into the oven, adding a tray of boiling water for steam. Will be eating for lunch 👌

30g of starter (that had been in the fridge since last bake) added to rye flour last night. Kept in coolest room in the house and it's risen beautifully overnight from elastic band mark. It's now ready to use in my dough.

Had with hawthorn jam from Cyprus and coffee I bought in Colombia. All the joys

Buckwheat, millet, amaranth, teff batter fermented overnight with kefir for galettes. Wibbly.

Good morning. Weekend bread is on

I spend actual hours researching who to spend my money with before I embark on a new relationship with a business or brand. I've distilled all this research down into a list, here are 5 of my favourites: leylakazim.substack.com/p/1-the-list-m

Jun 8

There's a new category for this year's

#bbcfoodawards: 💥 The Digital Creator Award 💥 Tell us about online content creators who are challenging you to think differently about food and farming. Nominations close 23:59 19th June. Nominate: bbc.co.uk/send/u143222533

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BBC Radio 4 - The Food Programme, Glasgow: Seeking Asylum and Finding Refuge in Food

Delighted to say the

that

and I made with Arij and Ibrahim has been shortlisted in the radio category at the Refugee Festival Scotland Media Awards. Congrats to all the other incredible nominees & thanks

@scotrefcouncil

✨

bbc.co.uk

Leyla Kazim explores the central role food plays for forcibly displaced people in Glasgow.

Jun 7

There's a recipe on the

@Join_ZOE

Instagram account for fudgy brownies and they are really good, second time I've made them. Ingredients: black beans (used red aduki today), beetroot, egg, olive oil, dark choc, cocoa powder, sugar, baking powder. Added hazelnuts & swirled tahini

Jun 7

I've written a piece about why I really, really don't like shopping and why I'm not a natural spender: leylakazim.substack.com/p/why-i-really Plus an intro to The List, exclusive access to my little black book of my favourite brands doing good.

Jun 6

See above re: bottles

@XantheClay

The Food Programme

Jun 6

If you enjoyed our programme on halloumi/hellim with

On Your Farm - Farmhouse Halloumi in Cyprus - BBC Sounds

there is even more from her trip to Cyprus on this week's On Your Farm

bbc.co.uk

Leyla Kazim visits a daring cheese farmer making farmhouse halloumi/hellim in Cyprus.

Jun 5

That tall green stem in the centre of this pic is the flowering stem of chard, now taller than the apple trees. While it flowers and produces seeds for future sowing, I'll be training beans to grow up it. Like the indigenous 'three sisters' setup but chard instead of corn

Jun 5

Big old planting out weekend. All beans, summer squashes, winter squashes and kale now in the ground, joining the tomatoes and sweetcorn. Plastic bottles are so good at keeping plants warm and snails out - pays to rummage through the neighbour's recycling bin.

Famously, Socrates was found guilty of corrupting the youth of Athens in 399BC and executed by the forced consumption of hemlock. Which kills you by stopping the nervous system from working properly which can lead to suffocation. Lovely!