Rachel McCormack
@rmccormack
r_mccormack@icloud.com Wrote Chasing The Dram, on Radio 4’s The Kitchen Cabinet. Have a Substack on art and food and drink
I see we are now dying of twee in Scotland now that our politics are back to business as usual and mostly looking at England in a dumbfounded manner
Sally Bowles was based on a Scottish cabaret singer called Jean Ross was an ambulance driver during the Spanish civil war and then lived in the south of England. Ross hated the character and said it was nothing like her but very like one of Isherwood’s boyfriends at the time. But Wilkommen anyway
I have moved to the sofa for next fortnight and for everything that isn’t curling I am Team Canada
In the days before social media cancellation. Helen Garner‘s Diaries (1995)
If there any tickets left snap them up. Am still catching my breath.
For this month’s Scribehound piece I wrote about the dying municipal markets in Spain, the very much alive one in @lickedspoon.bsky.social ‘s village and the declining one near me. join.scribehound.com/food?ref=sha...
this whole halibut was in the fishmongers today and I wondered just how much of my lawn I’d have to set on fire to cook it
My first piece for Scribehound is online today, it’s about Caravaggio so, as with all things with Caravaggio it starts off with one thing (fruit) and ends up about sex and death. It’s £1 to sign up for the first month and you can sign up here join.scribehound.com/food?ref=sha...
For those who remember from Twitter, the previous generation’s awkward thrawn McCormack was the Patriarch and we’ve just had a long lunch and avoided a massive fight. Just So things change.
This is on ITVX and Alec Guiness is a working class Glaswegian made good. His accent is even worse than Russ Abbot’s See You Jimmy one. The film is glorious
Happy Mother’s Day to those who celebrate it. We have fancy food and fancy wine for mine.
This really is still the best state of England novel so far this century
It’s World Bannock Day today so go and make some and if you are buying a horse in the Scottish lowlands you can seal the deal with a bannock with special folds
there’s a pub in Belfast with a cabinet shelf dedicated to Babycham. Utterly glorious.