wins of the week #86

chicken soup for the longest month of the year

Jan 28, 2024

Hi friends!!!! This January has been six months long. I don’t know how one month could be so exhausting—but here we are.

10 Things I’m Celebrating This Week:

Kate from Create Dinners is hosting a Galentine’s Day celebration with That Cheese Plate at TALEA Cobble Hill on Tuesday, February 13th from 6:00 - 8:00 PM. Deets are here!
Looking for advice for a friend — wondering if anyone has done egg freezing abroad or has figured out how to get egg freezing medication from abroad to the US for a fraction of the price?
My friend Pippa launched a Substack for food and travel recommendations around the world. Her ultimate guide to Edinburgh is for free subscribers and it’s amazing!!!
eat in everywhere
Your ultimate guide to Edinburgh
It’s been a long time coming, but I figured the best way to kick off this newsletter would be to start on home turf, with my top pics of where to go in Edinburgh. I’ll keep this intro short and sweet (heaven forbid I become like those recipe blogs that tell a story about how their great-uncles beloved dog Bessie loved the smell of their oat cinnamon bar…
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a year ago · 2 likes · Pippa Perriam
I am writing a deep-dive on surrealism in fashion and art direction. If you have seen eggs, lobsters, swans, or other surrealist symbols lately, please send them to me!!!!
G and I had Monday 2-for-1 movie night last week at the Everyman and saw Poor Things. I enjoyed reading these two very well-written commentaries about Poor Things by
Kenny Farquharson
and
Young Vulgarian
, respectively.
The Jaggy Thistle
Ignore nationalist naysayers, Poor Things is a triumph for Scotland
Does it matter that Poor Things, a new film garlanded with critical praise and heading for Oscar glory, is not set in Glasgow? For some Scots, yes, it seems it really does. The film is based on a 1992 novel by Alasdair Gray, a hero not only of the Scottish literary renaissance of the 198…
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a year ago · 37 likes · 18 comments · Kenny Farquharson
Young Vulgarian
Poor Things, but nice things also
Hi! Thank you to all the people who’ve recently taken out paid subscriptions. I’d actually forgotten to make a “please pay for this because I need to pay my rent” post in a while so it’s been a nice surprise. A column I was going to write about something else entirely this week but then the Guardian commissioned a number of people to talk about Poor Things and it annoyed me. They went to a lot of people! And not to me! All for the mere crime of “not being a film critic”, “not working for the Guardian as a staff journalist” and “not having expressed any thoughts on Poor Things on the public internet”! Honestly, whatever next…
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a year ago · 12 likes · Marie Le Conte
I am so happy that I finally made it to the Palmerston in Edinburgh!!! We had a reunion dinner from one of the & The Table dinners that happened over the summer. It was so lovely.
Enjoyed this interview with Cheryl Strayed:
Beyond with Jane Ratcliffe
Bodies, Forgiveness, and Tiny Beautiful Things: A Conversation with Cheryl Strayed
Intimate conversations with our greatest heart-centered minds. I first came across Cheryl Strayed’s writing when The Sun Magazine excerpted some of her Dear Sugar advice columns which had been previously published on The Rumpus. At the time, Sugar’s identity was anonymous but her tender, earnest, fierce words sunk deep into my core. And my core back then was in need of care. I was healing from head and brain injury and spent most of my days trying to survive a bevy of terrifying health issues and acute loneliness. No matter the topic, her answers spoke to my fear, isolation, and struggles…
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3 years ago · 231 likes · 59 comments · Jane Ratcliffe
Written by Lindsey Stanberry, founding editor of Refinery29 Money Diaries, this newsletter brings back the beloved Money Diaries content style to share how people make money and spend it. I love articles like these, I think because I am extremely nosy.
The Purse
Home Economics No. 1: Living in Brooklyn on $466k joint income
Welcome to our new series HOME ECONOMICS, where we take a deep dive into someone’s financial situation by looking at their earnings, monthly expenses, and general money story. To kick off our series, we have a 38-year-old working mom living in Brooklyn with her husband and baby…
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a year ago · 98 likes · 35 comments · Lindsey Stanberry
I made this chicken soup from an Instagram Reel recipe and really enjoyed it. Note I swapped in butter beans and barley due to ingredients-at-home limitations!!!
Looking for book recommendations. I just read Piglet, which I so badly wanted to like but didn’t love.

All my love,

Sarah

Jane Ratcliffe

I'm so glad you enjoyed the interview with Cheryl Strayed, Sarah! Thank you for sharing it here! ❤️

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Kenny Farquharson

Thanks for the mention! Re surrealism, I recommend dipping into the collection at Modern Two, at the Scottish National Galleries. It contains the library, archive and art collection of Roland Penrose, a driving force in the surrealist movement (as well as being the husband of Lee Miller, the photographer and muse of Man Ray).

wins of the week #86

chicken soup for the longest month of the year

10 Things I’m Celebrating This Week:

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