{"id":290,"date":"2025-04-26T14:26:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T14:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/munchkinstein.co.uk\/?p=290"},"modified":"2025-04-26T14:39:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T14:39:05","slug":"cooking-through-the-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/04\/26\/cooking-through-the-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooking through the apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Let joy be unbridled, I have a new story out and it is one I put a lot of time, effort and taste testing into.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The story can be found in the latest New Myths anthology The Growers, a Future Farmer’s Almanac available here<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The anthology is a Best Of for New Myths, but they also asked for new stories around growing and farming to build on the theme and I had one called Mother Menzies’ Tablet from the Afore Times. It’s part dystopian future times SF, part advert, part ramble on the joy of family recipes and, importantly, a complaint about how hard I find making tablet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For those of you who came to our Gallus launch at Worldcon in Glasgow in 2024, or met me later on as I forced the remains on people, you may remember tablet. It’s a Scottish homemade sweet of mostly sugar and, if you want to try making it yourself, this is the story for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, that’s right, the whole tablet push at Worldcon was simply a cunning advertising campaign for this story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is actually the second time I’ve had a story published which delves into the murky world of baking, the first one can be read on my blog here: Unexpected Visitors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me know how your attempts to make tablet or cake go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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