Jack Monroe #136 We lived in a house, it had a roof

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Emmapism

That Guardian article is so so spot on. I come from a working class background BUT had I got into any trouble myself with benefits or needing money for anything my parents would have been able to help me.

Lots of people aren't in that position and Jack (who has more affluence in her life than I ever had in mine - ballet lessons? We roamed the streets ) has never once acknowledged this privilege. She loves pretending she didn't have a safety net or grow up with any advantages.
 
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Fruitjack

I think she's said that she sometimes still wears binders, sometimes cute bras and sometimes no bra so this could be that.
 
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Harrybosch

It's just so lazy! I could do a better job and I'm #notachef. She will have a contract that specifies X number of recipes by these dates which use these products from the LM line with X number of photos. The first thing I'd do upon receiving the contract is write down the recipes. You are not reinventing the wheel here. It's just a way to showcase what you can do with veggie sausages or veggie mince or a veggie burger. Guess what, you can use a veggie burger to make a really nice burger! Come up with a good slaw or salsa to go on the side. Or use the sausages in something a little more inventive than sausage and mash. Maybe a vegan toad in the hole or a tofu scramble with sausage pieces or a potato hash with sausages.

Honestly, if you cook for a living it should take minutes to come up with the basic recipe idea. Then get your ingredients, make the recipes, send them to your recipe tester(s), snap some pics, amend according to the feedback you get from your testers, job done.

Given that none of the recipes will be molecular cuisine, one tester is probably fine and as an experienced recipe writer you should know how you have to word and present things to make the recipe easily understood.

I'd imagine her brief included info on the target audience, and given what I know of brands like Linda McCartney, it would be something like, quick, easy, family friendly, etc. The products are convenience foods and not something you'd use if you are creating a culinary wonder over the course of 6 hours.

It's insulting to all those vegan and vegetarian Instagrammers, YouTubers, etc. who are capable of putting something decent together but who don't have her following.
 
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Emmapism

She looks like a deflated waxwork thrown on a bed. Or one of those fake corpses you see on cop shows
 
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Pantomimehorse

just watched Mackie on Iplayer, at the start you can see how nervous she is with her hands and the coffee mug to be fair she didnt do too badly but one point I genuinely didnt get her bit about there once being a stigma to tinned tomatoes and now it being acceptable, was this ever thus ? new to me ?
 
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PoorPatrol

How many dressing gowns has she got? There was some sort of unit at the end of her bed before, did the fake photographer climb onto it, or was it more likely one of her stupid tripod setups?
 
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