HiddenCultureLeicester

Musings by @Laura_Parsons_ on culture, food, value & research methods as part of a Collaborative Doctoral award with @Midlands4Cities and @dmuleicester.

[HiddenCultureLeicester @LeicesterHidden]

Please share widely if you can. You will have to sign in to your Google account to upload a photo - sorry! It's mandatory for a form with a file upload. If this isn't possible for any reason, you can email me at [email protected]

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If you have a special decoration with a story behind it (no matter how small), please could you add a photograph and tell me about it using this link? https://t.co/Au21tBoKNW

[HiddenCultureLeicester @LeicesterHidden]

My PhD research also looks very different, as I was supposed to be in people's kitchens cooking with them and instead I'm talking on Zoom with varying quality of internet connection and limited views of the spaces they are in.

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Bumping this for everyone taking down their decorations tonight or tomorrow. Please help out with some PhD data :)

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All of our celebrations look and feel very different this year, but there are some constants in our lives and I think Christmas and other festive decorations will be a source of comfort and familiarity for many.

[HiddenCultureLeicester @LeicesterHidden]

Please share widely if you can. You will have to sign in to your Google account to upload a photo - sorry! It's mandatory for a form with a file upload. If this isn't possible for any reason, you can email me at [email protected]

[HiddenCultureLeicester @LeicesterHidden]

All of our celebrations look and feel very different this year, but there are some constants in our lives and I think Christmas and other festive decorations will be a source of comfort and familiarity for many.

[HiddenCultureLeicester @LeicesterHidden]

If you have a special decoration with a story behind it (no matter how small), please could you add a photograph and tell me about it using this link? https://t.co/Au21tBoKNW

[HiddenCultureLeicester @LeicesterHidden]

A bit of fun to beat the post-bank holiday blues:

What's your Leicester food personality?  https://t.co/C1myS0WrvZ via @tryinteract

Pick your favourite option in each scenario and we'll recommend a hidden gem where you might like to eat, drink or shop in Leicester.

[HiddenCultureLeicester @LeicesterHidden]

A light, lunchtime read in which I detail my experience of being a flâneuse in Leicester. The first of a series of blogs exploring walking methods and their usefulness during a pandemic.

https://t.co/Umk2x8mscZ

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If you live in Leicester and cook anything like this, please, PLEASE let me interview you for my PhD research. I will give you my firstborn in return.

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The Nobbly Bobbly is a god-tier ice lolly: discuss.

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For full disclosure: I only learnt the absorption method a few years ago and prior to that I would have been written out of Uncle Roger's will because any rice I cooked was a MUSHY MESS

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Guessing that everyone has seen this HILARIOUS viral video by @MrNigelNg? Uncle Roger DISGUSTED by this Egg Fried Rice Video (BBC Food) https://t.co/STScGWxHLM

So the burning question for foodies in Leicester and beyond is... do you sieve your rice?

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The Fellowship of the Chitterling - A Quest to find Pig Intestines in Leicester

https://t.co/epHEFALSYs

A blog post which considers nose to tail eating, the intersection of class and food practices, media representation of ethnic food, & privilege in the multicultural city.

[HiddenCultureLeicester @LeicesterHidden]

The Fellowship of the Chitterling - A Quest to find Pig Intestines in Leicester

https://t.co/epHEFALSYs

A blog post which considers nose to tail eating, the intersection of class and food practices, media representation of ethnic food, & privilege in the multicultural city.