Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


One of the Better Bosh Books

Bosh! by Henry Firth, Ian Theasby

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I get books for Christmas, sometimes from myself. Especially if I’m in a favorite indie bookshop. That’s how I ended up taking home two cookbooks, one of which was Bosh!. This is a series I’ve reviewed from before, but I don’t think I’ve done the original, first in the series. Basically, this is a British vegan food Youtube channel (probably; there’s a chance the website plus videos was first) that went viral before that was a thing, and then there were books. The books have […]

Here for the poutine and creme brulee, but not so much most of the rest

Bosh! Meat by Henry Firth, Ian Theasby

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Bingo 18: You Are Here I’m taking this bingo spot as an opportunity to look at a place I am at intellectually and culinarily with a certain type of trend; I’m kind of over the culinary fascination with plant-based meat, and the cookbooks this has spawned. I pre-ordered Bosh! Meat quite a while ago, and now that I’ve got it, I’m kind of over the main premise before I started; however, it turns out that a good chunk of the book actually doesn’t really deal […]

Not as much bang for the bosh

Bosh! On a Budget by Henry Firth, Ian Theasby

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Several years ago (pre-pandemic) I’d been to the UK for business, and gotten hooked on the Tesco (major grocery chain over there) lunch combo (sandwich, chips, and drink) with a specific sandwich: the Ploughman’s lunch. Basically, that’s a cheese sandwich with tomato, lettuce, and a very specific pickle-type spread. That spread is commonly available in the UK but not so much in the US, and a few weeks after getting home, I had a major craving for that sandwich. I found a recipe that’s quite […]



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