Yay. Jay Rayner’s new FT restaurant review column in FT Weekend will be on of the 8 Saturday FT Edit stories every week. Good news. #FTEdit #JayRayner https://www.ft.com/content/e184e9a4-d653-41ff-9fd5-c9ddc0064e00
I used to read Jay Rayner's food column in The Observer every week. I was among the first to post a comment on his restaurant review early on Sunday morning. (I had a different alias.) I love real food and I love cooking, and Jay Rayner understands both better than most. He loves the raw materiality of it, and he appreciates the cheap cuts. He could enthuse on offal cuts like otherwise only I can. His restaurant reviews were unmissable.
I stopped being a regular reader a while ago. No reason, just shifting interests. Also he made fun of fathers who take simple pride in cooking for their children. That hurt. He is forgiven.
The Observer got sold, good people got fired, many good writers left beforehand. Rayner will now be with the FT, a good venue for his writing.
Here is his last piece with the Guardian, a tightly packed series of maxims, full of wisdom. All true. I am sorry The Observer of old is gone. I am glad Jay still writes.
Jay Rayner (restaurant critic and food write) has written his last column for Observer Food Monthly, and it's a gem. Everyone, absolutely everyone who eats should read it. https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/feb/20/jay-rayner-final-ofm-column-buffets-clean-eating-what-not-to-serve-food-on
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Just #JayRayner casually libelling large numbers of people, and using a tragedy as a stick to beat them with. Nothing to see here...
![Guardian/Observer food writer Jay Rayner, who's usually very good and incisive, but is here spewing a load of defamtory bollocks:
"...It [anti-Semitism] came at me courtesy of a section of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party. Of course, it was countered with claims that antisemitism allegations were merely a smear by wealthy Jews to stop a leftwing leader gaining power, itself an antisemitic conspiracy theory. Which should be funny, but isn’t. And now we have the horrors of events in Israel and Gaza, inflicted upon civilians on both sides, bringing more unmitigated hate including against the Jewish community..."
Now, I could go into depth about this being a somewhat distorted, shall we say, take on what happened, but life's too short, and the fuckers won't listen anyway. Using a tragedy as a means of scoring points is itself a bit hard to swallow.
[From Rayner's article on the Guardian site, "My Jewish cultural identity is wrapped up in food. But some events are so momentous they blunt the appetite", published online on 16/11/2023.]](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/420/274/315/148/451/original/626b7d88872f6d0d.png "Guardian/Observer food writer Jay Rayner, who's usually very good and incisive, but is here spewing a load of defamtory bollocks:
\"...It [anti-Semitism] came at me courtesy of a section of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party. Of course, it was countered with claims that antisemitism allegations were merely a smear by wealthy Jews to stop a leftwing leader gaining power, itself an antisemitic conspiracy theory. Which should be funny, but isn’t. And now we have the horrors of events in Israel and Gaza, inflicted upon civilians on both sides, bringing more unmitigated hate including against the Jewish community...\"
Now, I could go into depth about this being a somewhat distorted, shall we say, take on what happened, but life's too short, and the fuckers won't listen anyway. Using a tragedy as a means of scoring points is itself a bit hard to swallow.
[From Rayner's article on the Guardian site, \"My Jewish cultural identity is wrapped up in food. But some events are so momentous they blunt the appetite\", published online on 16/11/2023.]")
