Archive - Sam's Good Stuff

The Countersignal Sandwich

While the elbows-out technocrats of tomorrow fell out the office to grab their Lebanese lunchboxes and Korean kimchi noodles, I stayed put, only to be…

Jul 18 •

The Servantless Cook

In which the author explains how you can be a better host

Jul 4 •

June 2025

Slumdog Millionaire Shortbread

Shantaram is the semi-autobiographical account of life in Bombay’s underbelly, and the infamous literary fire-starter that fueled a thousand gap year…

Jun 20 •

Incel Minestrone

Taking These Things Seriously (Finally)

Jun 6 •

March 2023

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.

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

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?

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 •

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