Jan Fuscoe – Award-winning Writer & Photographer https://www.janfuscoe.com/ Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:01:26 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.janfuscoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/favicon2.png Jan Fuscoe – Award-winning Writer & Photographer https://www.janfuscoe.com/ 32 32 172376967 Hackney Women https://www.janfuscoe.com/hackney-women/ https://www.janfuscoe.com/hackney-women/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2025 12:04:36 +0000 https://www.janfuscoe.com/?p=9558 In Search of Jane Loddiges’ Great, Great, Great Grand-daughter Have you ever wondered about the significance of the two exotic palm trees outside Hackney’s Town Hall on Mare Street? Or have you walked along, or crossed, Loddiges Road, just off Mare Street, without knowing that it was named after a certain ‘Conrad Loddiges’ who built…

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]]> https://www.janfuscoe.com/hackney-women/feed/ 1 9558 Arancino? or Arancina? https://www.janfuscoe.com/the-diavolo-is-in-the-detail/ https://www.janfuscoe.com/the-diavolo-is-in-the-detail/#respond Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:41:28 +0000 https://www.janfuscoe.com/?p=9519 Or, ‘What’s in a name?’ by Kate FuscoeNOVEMBER 2025 The Diavolo is in the Detail There’s a moment when you discover that details are important. In wine-making, they’re essential. But, apparently, elsewhere too.  I was a guest of Etna Days – the 4th edition of an event that promotes and celebrates winemaking in the Etna…

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]]> https://www.janfuscoe.com/the-diavolo-is-in-the-detail/feed/ 0 9519 Daughters of the Etna soil https://www.janfuscoe.com/daughters-of-the-etna-soil/ https://www.janfuscoe.com/daughters-of-the-etna-soil/#respond Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:29:56 +0000 https://www.janfuscoe.com/?p=9467 Wine, Women, and… Willpower by Kate Fuscoe November 2025 ‘A Fimmina‘ Sicily’s Mount Etna – A Muntagna (or A Fimmina, in local dialect) – is female.  Maybe it’s because ‘Mamma Etna’ provides wonderfully fertile land, thanks to her rich, volcanic soil, or maybe it’s because there’s an ever-present threat of her erupting.  Wine, women… Italian…

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]]> https://www.janfuscoe.com/daughters-of-the-etna-soil/feed/ 0 9467 Nobu. What Three Words? https://www.janfuscoe.com/nobu/ https://www.janfuscoe.com/nobu/#respond Thu, 17 Jul 2025 09:24:42 +0000 https://www.janfuscoe.com/?p=9425 Interview with Nobuyuki ‘Nobu’ Matsuhisa at the Cala Di Volpe, Sardinia When Nobu arrives at the Cala di Volpe in Sardinia, it’s an event. Hotel Cala di Volpe is one of the most famous hotels in the world. It was founded back in 1962 by His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV. The Prince (who…

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]]> https://www.janfuscoe.com/nobu/feed/ 0 9425 Why go on a Writing Retreat? https://www.janfuscoe.com/why-go-on-a-writing-retreat/ https://www.janfuscoe.com/why-go-on-a-writing-retreat/#respond Wed, 16 Jul 2025 17:34:01 +0000 https://www.janfuscoe.com/?p=9406 The Four ‘C’s – Confidence, Creativity, Camaraderie, Continue… When I was presented with the opportunity to attend a writing retreat in Abruzzo, Italy, I jumped at it. I had already contributed to an anthology with fellow writers from the creative writing courses I’d completed during lockdown (with the Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education). And I…

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]]> https://www.janfuscoe.com/why-go-on-a-writing-retreat/feed/ 0 9406 Fighting Fascism & Britain’s ‘Divide and Rule’ https://www.janfuscoe.com/fighting-fascism-and-britains-divide-and-rule/ https://www.janfuscoe.com/fighting-fascism-and-britains-divide-and-rule/#respond Wed, 28 Sep 2022 19:31:40 +0000 https://www.janfuscoe.com/?p=8947 The story of Balwinder Singh Rana, an Indian activist who has been fighting racism and structural attempts at division in Britain for decades. Read my article for the Byline Times here. And for more on the ‘Brick Lane Project’, here’s an article about Barbara Beese and the Mangrove Nine https://bylinetimes.com/2020/09/29/the-woman-with-the-afro-the-story-of-barbara-beese/

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]]> https://www.janfuscoe.com/fighting-fascism-and-britains-divide-and-rule/feed/ 0 8947 Discover Australia https://www.janfuscoe.com/discover-australia/ https://www.janfuscoe.com/discover-australia/#respond Sun, 02 Feb 2020 00:14:34 +0000 https://www.janfuscoe.com/?p=8517 In 2020, it will be 250 years since Australia was ‘discovered’ by Captain James Cook. We now know that the land mass was already inhabited with more than 500 Aboriginal tribes. In fact, humans had been here for more than 60,000 years. The First Nations have a tradition of using fire to burn vegetation. Known…

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]]> https://www.janfuscoe.com/discover-australia/feed/ 0 8517 Federico Fellini https://www.janfuscoe.com/fellini/ https://www.janfuscoe.com/fellini/#respond Wed, 29 Jan 2020 11:02:56 +0000 https://www.janfuscoe.com/?p=8478 Film director, Federico Fellini, created such masterpieces as La Dolce Vita (winner of the Palme d’Or in 1960), and 8½ (listed by Sight & Sound as the 10th greatest film of all time). And four of Fellini’s films appear in the BBC Culture’s poll to discover the 100 most popular foreign-language films. Fellini Museum In 2020, Rimini celebrated 100 years…

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]]> https://www.janfuscoe.com/fellini/feed/ 0 8478 Parma https://www.janfuscoe.com/parma/ https://www.janfuscoe.com/parma/#respond Tue, 28 Jan 2020 20:49:22 +0000 https://www.janfuscoe.com/?p=8463 Capital of Culture Parma is the Italian Capital of Culture in 2020. Throughout the year, events will be held all around the university city in Italy’s Emilia Romagna region. Happy as a pig… Tastebuds should be tingling as soon as you arrive in the ‘Food Valley’ where the pig (il porco) is king. Who hasn’t…

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]]> https://www.janfuscoe.com/parma/feed/ 0 8463 Pellegrino Artusi https://www.janfuscoe.com/pellegrino-artusi/ https://www.janfuscoe.com/pellegrino-artusi/#respond Tue, 28 Jan 2020 19:20:44 +0000 https://www.janfuscoe.com/?p=8457 Cooking Science and the Art of Eating Well In La Scienza in Cucina e l’Arte di Mangier Bene (1891), Pellegrino Artusi considered the scientific role of food in well-being. Was his interest sparked by a near-fatal visit to Livorno in 1855? After eating a bowl of ‘minestrone’, Artusi suffered terrible stomach pains. Days later he discovered…

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