Hello! Welcome to another edition of Kitchen Projects, a recipe development and cooking journal by me, Nicola Lamb. I’m a pastry chef and recipe developer and bakery consultant based in London. Thank you so much for subscribing - I’m so excited to share this space with you. Part toolkit and part love-letter to food, Kitchen Projects is all about giving you a behind the scenes look of recipe development and building.
Film Yap is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. In many circles it’s been hip to rip on 2006’s Best Picture Oscar-winner “Crash” for some time now. (Granted, I agree that “Brokeback Mountain” probably should’ve taken home the big prize that year.) I dig “Crash” and I’ve dug other works from that film’s co-writer/producer Bobby Moresco – namely his short-lived NBC series “The Black Donnellys.
Hello! Welcome to Nothing Bogus, an Indie Film Listings+ newsletter. The + is commentary, interviews, dispatches, tutorials, and other groovy stuff. I’m going to start with the +. If you subscribed for the listings and only the listings, scroll as fast as you can to the bottom of this email. If you came for the +, no scrolling necessary :) The first episode of Ren Faire, from director Lance Oppenheim, premiered on HBO last night.
Lauren Fleshman knows firsthand the challenges of being a female runner, and how some of the greatest challenges come from the system meant to support athletes. In this episode of Emerging Form, she talks about how and why she came to write her memoir, “bringing a pulse to the research.” She tells us about the challenges of trying to write a book during a global pandemic while parenting young children and how depression threatened to derail the project.
Despite having never been to Taiwan, I’ve been extremely interested in that country since the beginning of my journey with Mandarin. In fact, the very first time I thought Mandarin didn’t sound awful was through a song in Mandarin by the Taiwanese singer Rainie Yang (楊丞琳). That song was the trigger for me to get interested in Mandarin as a whole, although the first 8-9 years were completely focused on Mainland’s Simplified Chinese.