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A Line Cook's Rant About... Cooking
Plucking pheasants, "teledildonic" accoutrements, and the other problem with UPFs.
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Wil Reidie
7
Immigrant Notes on Emigrant Impressions
On teeth, smoked fish, and coming home
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Wil Reidie
5
A Line Cook's Rant About... Recipes
The poetry of lived experience
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51
Of Time and the Kitchen
A few weeks of Finnish spring...
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Wil Reidie
11
Wil Reidie and the Honeymoon Campfire Potatoes
In celebration of my wife and burnt food
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Wil Reidie
25
Notes from the world's "happiest" country
And a word on what's coming next from me
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Wil Reidie
33
A Line Cook Rants Again: Social Media Videos vs Memoir Recipes
A long(ish) read on form and content in food media
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Wil Reidie
29
Do you come turn into my wife?
A diary entry about a food hall and my struggle to talk Finnish
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Wil Reidie
37
A Grumpy Line Cook's Rant about Social Media "Chefs"
A long(ish) read in defence of knowing what you're talking about
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96
6 things I really don't like 🥦🤨
I'm probably wrong about most of these
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51
"Most chefs would go insane if they had to do anything else."
Interview with my old head chef, Jacco
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4
On love and smoked lamb
The taste of Finland at Easter
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Wil Reidie
8
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