Baking won’t get me through a Covid winter but a bossy, breathless Melvyn Bragg just might 🔗

In Our Time, I often think, is like going to an amazing free university at the top of Enid Blyton’s Magic Faraway Tree

For my second night of cooking Meera Sodha recipes I’ve gone for vegan chilli cornbread with broccoli. And baked black-eyed beans.

Watched: Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, 1993 - ★★★★ 🎥

Cooking Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for Shaoxing and soy braised tofu with pak choi. And sticky jasmine rice.

Watched: The Social Dilemma, 2020 - ★★½ 🎥

France divided over calls for Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine to be reburied in Panthéon 🔗
The Guardian

Clive James: ‘The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life’ 🔗 — Excerpt: What makes great poetry? An exclusive extract from the late critic’s final book The Fire of Joy celebrates the poems he loved most. 📚

‘He returned to what he really was’: Clive James’s daughter on his poetic farewell 🔗 — Excerpt: Ten months before his death last year at the age of 80, Clive James underwent an eight-hour operation to remove a tumour on his face. Already very frail – he had been suffering from leukaemia for a decade – afterwards it took him almost a week to emerge fully into consciousness.

Every time I read Meera Sodha’s column in The Guardian I find things I must cook. My latest quick reminder list:

• Slow-cooked marrow borani

• Shaoxing and soy braised tofu with pak choi

• Chilli cornbread with broccoli

• Ugandan rolex

🎵 My Top weekly artists: Glenn Gould (4), Krček, Capella Istropolitana (3), Golschmann, Columbia SO, Gould (2), Holland Baroque Society, Rachel Podger (2) & Arte Dei Suonatori, Rachel Podger (1) via tweekly.fm