Nic Annette Miller

1 month ago | kansascity.com | Nic Annette Miller

The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority - the agency that runs buses and specialized transportation services for people with disabilities in the greater Kansas City area - is facing a budget crisis in 2025. According to KCATA, it has a deficit of $20 million to $30 million next year. If KCATA doesn't get more funding, it is looking at substantial service cuts for the riding public and devastating layoffs for its employees, who are members of my union, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1287.

2 months ago | newsletter.wordloaf.org | Andrew Janjigian |Nic Annette Miller

Hello from the Wordloaf Friday Bread Basket, a weekly roundup of links and items relating to bread, baking, and grain. The annual all-things-Koji online conference, KojiCon, starts next Monday, featuring a wide variety of events from great speakers, including several friends of Wordloaf. you can find the entire schedule and sign up here. My pal recently visited Kanto Bakery, a Filipino-Korean Bakery in Cambridge, England and had her day improved.

Oct 17, 2024 | topographickitchens.substack.com | Nic Annette Miller

At the age of four, Irina Janakievska began making pita under the meticulous guidance of her grandmother, Lepa. ‘The culinary education of this small Balkan child started with a piece of dough,' she writes in what is one of my favourite opening lines to a cookbook ever. This simple statement has such power.

Oct 15, 2024 | topographickitchens.substack.com | Nic Annette Miller |Súper Chefs |Walworth Library |Wonder Arts

When I heard about Súper Chefs, a bilingual interactive musical show aimed at children between the ages of 4-8 from Maya Productions which starts its tour this October I wanted to write about it. Latin American communities are one of the fastest-growing demographics in the UK but remain under-represented in the British media, the company tells us.

Oct 3, 2024 | topographickitchens.substack.com | Nic Annette Miller

It’s October, the season of mists, mellow fruitfulness, and tendonitis from hacking away at pumpkins and squashes so when I saw Delicious Magazine’s Emily Gussin had published a small chonk of a book titled ‘Don’t Waste Your Pumpkin: Innovative recipes and projects, from stalk to base’, I knew what our topic of the month should be.