Highlights from last weekends Feast. Few spaces left for Friday 14th March. If you like what you see then do come. 🫡 Link in bio for bookings.

I’m on a bit of a mission to remove all seed oils and ultra-processed foods (UPFs) from our baked goods at my family bakery. Back in the 1960s (before I was born!), lard was the go-to fat—great for baking, readily available, and widely used. Then vegetarianism gained popularity, so we switched to palm oil, which, at the time, seemed like a perfect alternative due to its similarity to lard. However, concerns about deforestation and the impact on orangutans led us to adopt “sustainably sourced” palm oil—whatever that really means. It made us and our customers feel better, at least for a while. As the movement to remove palm oil gathered pace, new products emerged, including palm-free baking fat, which is essentially a mix of rapeseed oil and emulsifiers. We transitioned a lot of our bread recipes that contained fat to this new product. Then I discovered Bitcoin, and from there, fell down the rabbit hole of learning about everything—including seed oils! So now, we’re making the shift away from seed oil-based fats toward something better. We already use a lot of butter, but since we also cater to vegans, it’s not always a viable option. Olive oil, while great, can be too strong for certain breads. That led us to testing coconut fat, and I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how well it works—it doesn’t make everything taste like a piña colada! It’s a single-origin ingredient, and hopefully, a step up from rapeseed oil. My hunch is that, in time, the market will shift again, and we’ll find ourselves back at lard. That might be a step too soon for our customers right now, but it’s where I see the best long-term solution. The food industry is a fascinating place to work, but it has its fair share of bad practices that don’t always put customers first. At our bakery, we’ve always tried to go against the grain (pun intended!), and I’m incredibly grateful to the Bitcoiners who opened my eyes to better alternatives. I’ll do my best to steer our family business in this direction! 🫡

Feast with Henry Herbert

What a lovely, jolly bunch you all were at our feast this past weekend! It was so good to see lots of familiar faces, along with a healthy dose of ...

Latest newsletter from Feast. We had a couple of bitcoiners in on Saturday night. Was great to meet and feed them. Few spaces left for Friday 14th March. Got some lovely beef on order ready for it. 🫡

Delicious burger made by the legends The Beefy Boys. New site in Bath UK. We make their buns and boy are they good!

Love that feeling of getting some unexpected fiat (someone owned me money I forgot about) and then smash buying on @peachbitcoin some non-kyc sats. Nothing better 🫡

Heading to NYC next weekend. Hoping to have a burger @PUBKEY Any good things to do as a family that don’t cost a packet. We are there for 3days. Thanks

I guess my optimistic view is that if you are a passionate artisan looking to build a business. In the past that business needs to outpace inflation otherwise game over long-term. However, if your business adopts Bitcoin, then as long as you can run a profit and hold that in Bitcoin you have an asset that will massively out perform anything you can do. Therefore, you should be able to continue running your business without having to grow too fast as you are no longer trying to outpace the money printer. This may be a bit utopian, but my hope is that by putting Bitcoin on my small business in the long-term it will mean I can keep doing what I love. View quoted note →

Woodwormed draws are burning up like Shitcoins 😂🫡

Apple tart Tatin was looking on point at last nights feast!

GM. Sourdough culture warming by the fire. This culture has been fed every day with organic rye flour for 69years by my family. This humble mixture of flour and water has risen enough bread to support multiple families and build a generational business. Question is. If I can’t get the bakery to embrace Bitcoin will this sourdough be enough to keep us going for generations to come??

Nostr is so cool. Some you massively respect just drops a like 🥳🥳 Thanks @npub1n3sj...te5l 🫡

GM. What a time to be alive!