Artfully encapsulates that lost-cow-on-a-motorway feeling of being out of your depth in a kitchen. Felt it first-hand—if marginally—one summer, bombarded with rolling orders while being mocked by chefs for my youthful naïvety and how shit I was at making quenelles.

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Issue 19 fancies an afternoon dip

Plucky chef. Come for the tongue de-gloving; stay for the variety of ways in which you’d cook a chef. A great story from the front line of St John

What a beautiful piece about my favourite restaurant in London

We sent Ian Trueger to St. JOHN in Farringdon for The Fence Magazine. The resulting article is delicious, meaty and perhaps one to avoid for the vegetarians among our readership.

I don’t think anything has ever been commissioned quicker than this insider dispatch from the kitchens of St. JOHN. Eat some pig spleen and Eccles cakes under the learning tree of Fergus Henderson.

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As the profile pic suggests, I like my pigs. Here is me trying my best impression of Bill Buford's 'Heat,' just at St. JOHN. It was a joy writing it and big thanks to Charlie Baker and The Fence Magazine for giving it a home!
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One of the great lead features from Fence #19 is now online, in which Ian Trueger tells tales of toil and tongue in the kitchens of St. JOHN.

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This beautifully written piece by Ian Trueger is one of best 'insider' pieces we've run, and also operates as a tribute to two people who have, quite genuinely, changed the way we eat and drink in this country.

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'There were just a couple of words between me and the prospect of eating myself. Pig. Meat. Pork. Language can transform things that are in plain sight; one thing becomes another and the world is changed.'

Ian Trueger worked at an iconic London restaurant.

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At Work With! This week we talk to Tom Rowley, the man behind bookshop Backstory | London bookshop who has just launched a new book magazine, ‘what makes it unique is that the mag is firmly a product of the bookshop’ magculture.com/blogs/journal/…

Thanks to Tom Rowley of Backstory | London bookshop for the very very generous words:

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Essential reading if you are either a renter or landlord. Probably less relevant if you’re a homeowner (which is basically no-one these days)

We need a digital assistant to take some photos in London. You will need a) an eye for a winning composition and b) an operational camera phone.

£60 for four hours' work. Email [email protected] to apply

I took The Fence Magazine on holiday with me to Capel-y-Ffin, a hamlet in the Black Mountains home to a former monastery later owned by Eric Gill. Here, with heavy symbolism, is The Fence on a fence, its front cover of a ruined St Paul’s reflected in the ruins of the monastery church

V droll piece from Angel's finest.

It's not easy being in the green!

Me on how to be an ethical young landlord, for my favourite magazine The Fence Magazine