Greetings from Hoxton Square where we are delighted to have just received the delivery of issues and books for the forthcoming autumn quarter. We’re very excited to release Issue 87 (Autumn 2025), Slightly Foxed Edition No. 72 First Light and the new Plain Foxed Edition of the much-loved Cider with Rosie. Copies are available to pre-order now.
Hauling box after box of books up the stairs is hungry work and after setting down the final parcel the office foxes flocked to the kitchen to retrieve, heat or prepare their respective lunches. The kitchen at Foxed HQ gets a lot of use over lunch break. When 1pm hits, the four of us head over to dice up vegetables, descend upon the hobs or wait eagerly by the oven. On Shrove Tuesday we cooked pancakes; one cold February afternoon Rebecca made us warming cups of chai in a saucepan; and this summer we’ve been putting together plenty of iced elderflower drinks with mint and lemon to keep cool. On the day we dispatched the Slightly Foxed Edition of Nigel Slater’s Toast we celebrated by trying a Fray Bentos Steak & Kidney Pie – one of the many dishes he writes about in his iconic memoir. Our collective review was similar to those expressed by a young Nigel: ‘The filling smells like the food we put out for the dog, though in all fairness it tastes a whole lot better.’
As some of you may know, we launched Toast at an event hosted by Bodies in the Bookshop at St Botolph’s Church in Cambridge in May. Nigel was kind enough to come along and sign some copies for attendees. We have a small number of these signed copies left, now available for Slightly Foxed subscribers to buy on the website.
Please scroll down to read Andrew Nixon’s piece on Toast and see some other recommended reading from us.
With best wishes, as ever, from the SF staff
Isabel, Rebecca, Edie, Ruth & Jennie
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