Hi

I’m Jess, a journalist in London. I write about culture, places, food and quirks, and I’m pleased to have gone viral writing about bacon, and ‘Africa’ by Toto.

To follow my work, subscribe to The New Leaf, my monthly newsletter. To hire me, or just say hi, email me: jessica.furseth@gmail.com

Read my latest: The curious skyline appeal of London’s fire drill towers (WhyNow) / / / Everywhere has a vegan option – so why am I still hungry? (The Independent)

M*

Selected features:
* Into the dark heart of licorice – Eater
* If you could prevent your kids from getting the family illness, would you? – Future Human by Medium
* How we make and remake our memories – The Simple Things
* What we lost in the wilderness years of photo storage –  “Finding CTRL” by Nesta and the EU’s Next Generation Internet initiative
* Sound and the city – Curbed at Vox
* Pints at dawn: The last days of London’s earlyhouses – The Guardian
* The last graffiti on the Lord Napier in Hackney Wick – Garage at Vice
* How preventative botox became part of self care – Vice
* When women are denied pain relief for invasive procedures – Broadly at Vice
* The colour of the city – Curbed at Vox
* Raves and resistance: The hidden history of King’s Cross – Huck Magazine
* The wild, necessary world of online UTI cures – The Cut at New York Magazine
* The art of imitation: My family’s favourite fake painting – Hazlitt
* A trip down Greek Street, old Soho’s final frontier – Huck Magazine
* The case for wearing your noise-cancelling headphones on ‘silent’ – The Guardian
* The hidden sexual side effects of pre-cervical cancer treatment – Tonic at Vice
* The curse of the British pub refurbishment – Huck Magazine
* Terrazzo’s staggering comeback – Curbed at Vox
* How Birkenstock convinced us the breaking-in pain is worth it – Racked at Vox
* How I learned to stop worrying and love gaming – The Guardian
* The best advice I ever got – Elemental by Medium
* Our fridges, ourselves: On home tech and expat life – Curbed at Vox