Archive - Sam's Good Stuff

How Not To Miss Your Wife's Labour

The baby was due a week ago and each day since we have awoken tense that it may appear and laid down to sleep disappointed that it hasn’t. The little…

Mar 2, 2023 •

February 2023

Cooking Oil Has Been Cancelled

Cooking oil has attracted the focus of public outrage this week after being purported to be deeply hydrophobic.

Feb 15, 2023 •

Predicting If Dinner Will Be Good Pt. 2

In pt. 1 we concluded that in order to comprehend reality, we must free ourselves from ideology.

Feb 8, 2023 •

January 2023

A Giant Yellow Cat That Is Also A Bus

The stage adaptation of My Neighbour Totoro begins with two children and their father moving into a countryside house, while the mother is dying (/maybe…

Jan 30, 2023 •

Predicting If Dinner Will Be Good pt.1

Can you predict the future? According to SuperForecasting, those equipped with the right mindset and techniques can do a reasonably good job.

Jan 23, 2023 •

This post takes a different tact to usual, and will be a slightly self-indulgent piece (ok so maybe not too different) looking at this newsletter’s…

Jan 13, 2023 •

Kill The Pig, Drink Its Blood

Most food writers out there would likely find a more appropriate post title for their first entry in 2023 (something with resolutions perhaps, or…

Jan 6, 2023 •

July 2022

Never Meet Your Heroes

The idea was to go to Glastonbury this year and write a piece about the abundant and vacant meat consumption at the festival, something like this…

Jul 5, 2022 •

June 2022

Dal To Defy Death

I’ve been thinking about death after reading an article adapted from The Case Against Death. It’s written by a teacher of philosophy from NYU, a certain…

Jun 17, 2022 •

An Everlasting Meal

Excuse the tardiness of this (/last) week’s newsletter, I’ve been suffering from the most general of malaises and have found the idea of confronting the…

Jun 1, 2022 •

May 2022

How To Fight, How To Love

I have been caught ranting recently against the government’s new requirement that large restaurants, cafes and takeaways are required to list the number…

May 13, 2022 •

April 2022

A Pantry Beyond Metaphysical Dissection

I woke up in the middle of the night last night and saw plastic bottles of milk lining ever-shifting aisles of supermarkets. The vision melted like soft…

Apr 29, 2022 •

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