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Between them, Richard and Victoria have written across print and online media, including the BBC, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Evening Standard, The Scotsman, The Independent, Delicious. Magazine, The Bluffer's Guides, Huffington Post, Rasp, and Women's Health Magazine.
They have also written newsletters, brochures, pamphlets, blog posts and marketing articles for countless brand campaigns and charities, including Cath Kidston, Shell Energy, Encona, Sous Vide Tools, Celebrity Cruises, Lloyds Pharmacy, Davidstow Cheddar, Lipoedema UK, and Remember A Will.
Journalism
These are excerpts of a few pieces we've written, spanning the last twenty years.
I Could Eat A Horse
Huffpost
"Horsemeat has been put in the spotlight due to the discovery of horse DNA in frozen burgers sold as beef in Tesco, Lidl, Iceland and Aldi. Although widely eaten in Europe, horsemeat has long tipped the controversy scales in the UK, but is our beef with eating equines ultimately hurting our horses?
The argument for horses having a special status as companion animals is certainly an emotive one. Who doesn't fondly remember Saturday afternoons watching Black Beauty on the telly? But it's a cop out to compare horsemeat to stir-frying your pet dog or cat. Labradors and Tabbies aren't in danger of extinction. There's no denying that equines are beautiful and majestic beasts, but this ingrained taboo is ultimately short-sighted."
Miranda
BBC writersroom blog
"The writing process for Miranda begins with a vast amount of material: Miranda comes up with scenes, jokes, themes and ideas for plots, and writes them all on flip chart paper which is pinned up on the walls of an office. Then the first cohort of her writing team - me and James Cary - spend several weeks drawing those elements together into coherent plots, and then fitting the plots together into detailed plans for episodes. It's a demanding, technical process that involves us going, 'hey, would it be funny if x happened?' and then laughing a lot at our own jokes before spending half an hour discussing lunch."
Join the war on waste...
delicious.
"What would you do with a spare £800? Maybe a weekend away, or how about a fancy new coffee machine? Or maybe you would rather spend it duplicating a bunch of ingredients that are already sititng in your cupboards?
Right now in the UK, 9.5 million tonnes of food are wasted every year, with household food waste making up a staggering 70% of this figure. We bin nearly 20% of all the food we buy, resulting in the average household wasting £800 of edible food a year.
A study published in the Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences found nearly two thirds of our unused comestibles were bought for specific recipes that were never made. This points to a pattern of culinary over-optimism; our cupboards are bursting with mementos from abandoned cooking projects.
If you're feeling a bit guilty by this point, you are not alone. A quick peek in my fridge reveals three opened jars of the same brand of harissa. My cupboards are no better. In the spice rack alone, I've discovered two jaurs of star anise and three of caraway seeds - and that's the tip of the iceberg."
In the name of comedy
Guardian
"...But not everyone gets it right. Self-deprecating and negatively charged titles are a minefield, and wise Fringe performers avoid them, terrified of playing into the hands of witty, underwhelmed critics. You don't have to be Kenneth Tynan to snappily dismiss a show called Trust Me There is No Hope (Edinburgh 2007) or Comicide: Death By Funny (Melbourne 2008). Claims in a show's favour aren't much better: damning one-liners on a postcard, please, for Humourful (Melbourne 2008). Worse, though, is the title that tries to be wacky, witty, or both. Year after year in Edinburgh, the Cambridge Medics' Review would hawk up such puns as Thoracic Park, Beyond All Reasonable Gout, or Julius Seizure."
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