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Old post office bakery
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May 13, 2013, 1 Comment

 By Alicia Green If you happen to be walking down Landor Road and smell something delicious then you will have picked up the scent of the Old Post Office Bakery. [...]

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Vegan Baking with Ms Cupcake

May 9, 2013, 4 Comments

In recent years, the cult of the cupcake has become synonymous with yummy mummies, twee tea parties and a mark of middle-classness. So when Ms Cupcake ...

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Grilling Levi Roots

May 7, 2013, 4 Comments

Last week, I was lucky enough to get the chance to sit down and chat food and Brixton with probably the most famous food entrepeneur in the area, Levi ...

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Vegging in Brixton: our meat free recommendations

May 2, 2013, 2 Comments

By Neil Sammonds Tins of Ma Ling ful beans (fava beans or brown broad beans) kept me alive on a pittance when I moved from Africa to Loughborough Junc ...

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    BRIXTON PEOPLE: Tim Wells, poet and DJ
    April 26, 2013, No comments

    Faye Lipson caught up with Tim Wells: published poet, reggae DJ and business advisor to Brixton’s entrepreneurial unemployed. “My daughter says I’m a hipster”, is the unlikely opening gambit of [...]

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    Brixton People: Pritesh Patel
    April 24, 2013, 3 Comments

    By Neil Sammonds If you’re reading this, the chances are that you’ve already met Pritesh Patel: though some of you may not know it. Neil Sammonds caught up with Brixton [...]

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    Exploring Brixton’s hand-painted signs
    March 31, 2013, 2 Comments

    US-born, Brixton-based, sign-painter Bella Pace writes in praise of Brixton’s appreciation of the hand-painted sign and explores some historic and more recent varieties (photo gallery below). Look at a really [...]