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LeckerThe Lost Food of SohoIntroducing....The Lost Food of Soho, a new audio piece commissioned and published by Vittles and written, narrated and produced by me (Lucy Dearlove).
This is just a very small taster, you can listen to the whole thing for free on Vittles itself, or on all good podcast platforms. https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-lost-food-of-soho
With big thanks to Jonathan Nunn and Adam Coghlan who I worked closely with through the production of this piece, and to the other Vittles editors who provided crucial feedback.
Cast
Hilary Armstrong – writer, worked in Andrew Edmunds...2025-03-2403 min
LeckerShaken and Stirred (To Be Delicious #5)In the final episode of To Be Delicious, Anna considers the future of MSG in the UK. Drinks culture has an inherent playfulness and creativity that makes it the perfect experimentation lab for seeking out where MSG might go next. She meets two key figures in London (and the world!)'s bar scene to understand how they're using it as an ingredient, and how umami as a flavour presents itself in drinks.
Ryan Chetiyawardana, whose goes by the moniker Mr Lyan, has bars that have reshaped cocktail culture in the UK and around the world, shares how his...2025-02-2841 min
Can I Have Another Snack?48: Air Fryers and Egg Pots - FEBRUARY ALL OF THE SNACKSYour February ALL OF THE SNACKS episode is here! A paid subscriber-only bonus episode where myself and our audio engineer Lucy Dearlove answer listener questions.Coming up in this episode: 👉 One listener who's feeling frustrated with badly designed clothing asks Lucy for advice about getting into sewing and patterns, so they can make clothes that actually fit👉 What the 30/30/30 method actually is and precisely how it is BS👉 Feelings about air fryers - are they convenient cooking or is diet culture doing a one over on us?👉 Plus, as always, what we're snacking on a...2025-02-1803 minLeckerThe Frontline of MSG (To Be Delicious #3)Chinese takeaways are a national institution in the UK, and have also - for many years now - been the frontline where public understanding of MSG comes to a head. Angela Hui, whose book Takeaway has shone a light on life growing up behind the counter, and her mum, Jin Tian, spend a day with Lucy and Anna; showing them around their home town in South Wales, then Jin Tian's garden and home kitchen, while considering and dispelling the prevalent stereotypes around British Chinese takeaway food.
Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter is out now in...2025-02-1447 minLeckerEvolution Not Fusion (To Be Delicious #2)AKA infinite ways with a packet of instant noodles.
Georgina Quach, a journalist and archivist, makes her personalised ramen for Anna and Lucy, and considers the importance of comfort in the food she makes, as well as how her Vietnamese heritage informs the savoury flavours she uses in her cooking.
Chef and Chinese food creator Chin Taylor reflects on assumptions of how takeaway food is made and how they affect people's perceptions of the work that goes into it – and how MSG fits into this. Chef and author Tim Anderson talks about dashi, and fermentation expert an...2025-02-0746 minLeckerThe Sweet Spot of Savoury (To Be Delicious #1)
MiMi Aye, a Burmese chef and cookbook author, has used MSG in her cooking for as long as she can remember. While preparing a meal for Anna and Lucy, she reflects on her processes in the kitchen, and how a misinformed narrative around the ingredient has impacted her personally.
Also featuring insight into umami from Dr Kumiko Ninomiya of the Umami Information Center, and reflections on MSG 20 years on from his original Observer Food Monthly article about it from investigative journalist Alex Renton.
In To Be Delicious, Dr Anna Sulan Masing explores MSG - and more...2025-01-3146 min
Can I Have Another Snack?32: B*tch You Have Got to Eat SomethingThis is a teaser of a subscriber only-episode. Head to canihaveanothersnack.com to upgrade your subscription and access the full episode.Today I’m joined by CIHAS audio engineer and host of the podcast Lecker, Lucy Dearlove, to answer listener and reader questions. Tune in to hear us:Revive and old classic (DSMG fans, this one’s for you!)Share non-lame-gym-bro snack ideas for pre/post workoutExplain why a certain gut health shot is a lot like a bad night outTalking about why it’s important to be calm in the face of a new medical diagno...2024-05-0704 min
LeckerA Common Language (Good Bread #3)Is it possible or productive to organise around a common language in order to reimagine how we produce grain and bread? In the third and final part of Good Bread, Kim and Ruth reflect on some of their experiences working on the project and consider what the future of good bread might look like.
Good Bread is a three part series made with Farmerama exploring The Body Lab, a participatory arts and research project by baker Kimberley Bell and artist Ruth Levene considering standardised grain testing and the possibility of reimagining measurement within the system that surrounds bread...2023-10-2239 min
FarmeramaGood Bread: Part 3: A common languageIs it possible or productive to organise around a common language in order to reimagine how we produce grain and bread? In the third and final part of Good Bread, Kim and Ruth reflect on some of their experiences working on the project and consider what the future of good bread might look like.
This series is in response to the Body Lab, a participatory arts and research project by baker Kimberly Bell (@smallfoodbakery) and artist Ruth Levene (@leveneruth) which explores the industrial processes of grain testing. Over three episodes, Lucy Dearlove explores what the body lab is, what the work...2023-10-2239 minLeckerThe Price of Consistency (Good Bread #2)Consistency is at the heart of industrial bread production, from the field to the mill to the oven. But what is it costing us?
Good Bread is a three part series made with Farmerama exploring The Body Lab, a participatory arts and research project by baker Kimberley Bell and artist Ruth Levene considering standardised grain testing and the possibility of reimagining measurement within the system that surrounds bread production.
The Body Lab is funded by Farming The Future.
Thanks to Shipton Mill for their openness and generosity in allowing the Body Lab to explore...2023-10-1539 minFarmeramaGood Bread: Part 2: The price of consistencyConsistency is at the heart of industrial bread production, from the field to the mill to the oven. But what is it costing us?
This series is in response to the Body Lab, a participatory arts and research project by baker Kimberly Bell (@smallfoodbakery) and artist Ruth Levene (@leveneruth) which explores the industrial processes of grain testing. Over three episodes, Lucy Dearlove explores what the body lab is, what the work around it has entailed so far, and what the outcomes might be.
The Body Lab is funded by Farming the Future.
Thanks to Shipton Mill for their openness and gene...2023-10-1539 minLeckerWhat is Good Bread? (Good Bread #1)How is the quality of bread measured by the system that produces and consumes it?
Good Bread is a three part series made with Farmerama exploring The Body Lab, a participatory arts and research project by baker Kimberley Bell and artist Ruth Levene considering standardised grain testing and the possibility of reimagining measurement within the system that surrounds bread production.
The Body Lab is funded by Farming The Future.
Thanks to Shipton Mill for their openness and generosity in allowing the Body Lab to explore these ideas.
Good Bread is hosted and p...2023-10-0829 minFarmeramaGood Bread: Part 1: What is good bread?This series is in response to the Body Lab, a participatory arts and research project by baker Kimberly Bell (@smallfoodbakery) and artist Ruth Levene (@leveneruth) which explores the industrial processes of grain testing. Over three episodes, Lucy Dearlove explores what the body lab is, what the work around it has entailed so far, and what the outcomes might be.
In part 1, she explores the question - what is good bread? She speaks to Kim and Ruth about what makes good bread for them, and unpacks what the Body Lab is about, and why they started the project.
We hear from farm...2023-10-0829 minLeckerCursed Objects: Making a Meal of itThis is a preview of an episode of the excellent Cursed Objects podcast, featuring me, Lucy, talking to Dan Hancox and Dr Kasia Tee about the great British institution of Meal Deals.
Listen to the full version on Cursed Objects.
2023-03-2410 min
Cursed ObjectsMaking a Meal of It - ft. Lucy DearloveA plain ham sandwich, a bottle of still water and a pack of ready salted crisps – it's a meal (deal) fit for a King, and a Cursed Objects x Lecker collab! This week, legends in their own lunchtimes Kasia, Dan and special guest Lucy Dearlove delve into claggy sandwiches, terrible sushi and supermarket psychology and ask: what the hell is going on in Britain that our most well-known high street chemist changed the way we eat lunch?
What do your meal deal choices say about you, and what’s the most cursed meal deal of all? How have...2023-03-2157 min
LeckerLoaghtan (Blasstal #3)A mythical-looking beast to be found on the hills of the Isle of Man; the loaghtan is a fascinating heritage breed sheep whose story is intertwined with Manx culture and history.
Katie and Lucy meet farmer Jenny Shepherd from Ballacosnahan, who have one of the biggest loaghtan flocks on the island, make loaghtan croish cuirns with artist Rosie Wood and find out how to work with loaghtan’s unique flavour with chef and spice importer Kumar Menon of Leela’s Kitchen. Plus Annie Kissack is on hand with some folktales about the sheep.
Blasstal is a po...2022-11-2846 minLeckerSkeddan (Blasstal #2)Katie and Lucy take a deep dive to the heart of the Manx fishing industry to meet a true Isle of Man legend: the herring (skeddan in Manx).
Blasstal is a podcast series by Lecker about food and folklore on the Isle of Man, supported by Culture Vannin.
Hosted and produced by Lucy Dearlove and Katie Callin
Podcast theme music by Mera Royle
Podcast artwork by Vicky Webb
With thanks to all contributors and others who made the series possible!
Music credits:
Manx Folk Dance Music - Yn Guilley...2022-11-1447 minLeckerMoots (Blasstal #1)In episode 1 of Blasstal, Katie introduces Lucy to the vegetable at the heart of Hop-tu-Naa traditions of the Isle of Man.
They explore the island's folklore with poet and folklore expert Annie Kissack, attend a Hop-tu-Naa celebration at Cregneash, carve their own moots, and finally head out Hop-tu-Naa-ing around Peel.
Blasstal is a podcast series by Lecker about food and folklore on the Isle of Man, supported by Culture Vannin.
Hosted and produced by Lucy Dearlove and Katie Callin
Podcast theme music by Mera Royle
Podcast artwork by Vicky Webb
With...2022-10-3137 minLeckerS6: Introducing...BlasstalWelcome to Blasstal! A podcast series by Lecker about food and folklore on the Isle of Man, supported by Culture Vannin.
Launching 31st October.
Hosted and produced by Lucy Dearlove and Katie Callin
Podcast theme music by Mera Royle
Podcast artwork by Vicky Webb
2022-10-2802 min
Cooking For LoveEp.9 Lucy DearloveAfter a wee break, cooking for love is back with monthly episodes! This month I chatted to the wonderful Lucy Dearlove who runs the podcast Lecker, one of my favourite food podcasts!
We chatted about food in Lucy's childhood, cooking for friends, the London food scene and of course, what cooking for love means to her.
Listen to Lecker here.
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2022-10-2056 minLeckerBack to School with Jeremy PangWhat's the secret of a successful cooking school? Jeremy Pang, founder of School of Wok, lets us in on it.
This episode was hosted by Adrienne Katz Kennedy and produced by Lucy Dearlove.
You can find out more about Jeremy Pang at jeremypang.co.uk and his new book, Jeremy Pang’s School of Wok is out now, wok clock illustrations and all.
Ben McDonald creates original illustrations for Lecker - find them on the Lecker Twitter and Instagram.
If you’re in a position to, please considering supporting Lecker. Buy merch here...2022-09-2736 minLeckerJust Cooking Outdoors with Helen GravesHelen Graves talks about illegal rooftop barbecues, the joy of cooking and eating together outdoors, and why tenderstem broccoli is the thing everyone needs to grill.
Helen's new book Live Fire is published by Hardie Grant.
Helen Graves is a food and recipe writer and editor and she used to write a much loved blog called Food Stories.
The Guardian podcast I mentioned in this episode is called Let's Eat!
Lecker is written and produced by Lucy Dearlove
Lecker is on Twitter, Instagram and now TikTok.
If...2022-06-1338 minLeckerOranges and LemonsAn audio exploration of our love of citrus, with chef Selin Kiazim and writer Nina Mingya Powles.
Three: Acid, Texture, Contrast by Selim Kiazim and Small Bodies of Water by Nina Mingya Powles are both out now!
Lecker is written and produced by Lucy Dearlove
You can find a full bibliography for this episode on the Lecker website.
Ben McDonald creates original illustrations for every episode of Lecker.
Lecker is on Twitter, Instagram and now TikTok.
If you’re in a position to, please considering supporting Lecker. Buy me...2022-04-2836 minLeckerA Woman Eating Or Not Eating with Claire KohdaThere's one detail that everyone's picked up on in Claire Kohda's debut novel: the fact that the main character, Lydia, is a vampire. But it's actually much more about food than it is about vampires.
Claire explores how the book relates to ethnic identity and colonialism, and the othering of Asian cultures which happens so frequently, and explains how food came to be such a central part of a story whose main character physically can't eat it.
Woman, Eating is published by Virago.
Claire Kohda is a writer and musician; she reviews books for...2022-03-2830 minLeckerHot Pot is for EveryoneYou’ve eaten hot pot at a restaurant, or at the very least seen it offered at restaurants near you. But did you know that thanks to the minimal prep required, it’s actually the perfect dinner party meal to have with friends at home?
Melanie Xu, a lifelong fan and staunch advocate of Chongqing Ma La hot pot, makes the case.
Thank you to Mel and Andrew for their hot pot hospitality!
Lecker is on Twitter, Instagram and now TikTok.
If you’re in a position to, please considering supporting Lecker. Buy mer...2022-02-2136 minLeckerThe Granville RevisitedA look back at the 2017 episode recorded at Granville Community Kitchen with Leslie Barson and Dee Woods. While Leslie and Dee prepared a community meal of Peruvian inspired pork stew, beans, rice and salad they shared how their work addresses fundamental and system issues of oppression, poverty, land use, farmers' rights and the environment. And there's an update from Leslie on the Granville's plans for 2022 and beyond.
Read more about The Granville and get involved at granvillecommunitykitchen.org.uk
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Become a Patron at patreon.com/leckerpodcast
2022-01-1745 min
Field RecordingsIce cream van funeral procession, New Cross, London, UK on 17th December 2021 – by Lucy Dearlove“Sometimes I feel like the A road equivalent of a curtain twitcher as I often hear something unexpected happening outside my flat and rush to look out. This sound was […]2021-12-1701 min
LeckerA Bigger Table (Kitchens #6)How can the practice of eating together secure a sustainable future for our kitchens?
In the final episode of the series, Joanne MacInnes and Betul Piyade from the community centre West London Welcome describe what it's like for refugees and asylum seekers to live indefinitely in hotel rooms without kitchens. And academic and "food crisis responder" Marsha Smith explains why social eating is so important for us as a society, and explains how it's the key to future proofing our eating habits.
Lecker is written and produced by Lucy Dearlove
Thanks to my...2021-09-2042 minLeckerThe Hearth of the Home (Kitchens #5)Does it matter what fuels our fire in the kitchen? Javon Bennett explains how his family adapted their cooking when they moved from Jamaica to England, and Carwyn Graves explores open fire cooking and other Welsh kitchen traditions.
A full transcript is available on the Lecker website.
Lecker is written and produced by Lucy Dearlove
Thanks to the contributors on this episode, Javon Bennett and Carwyn Graves.
And also thanks to Naomi Oppenheim who put me in touch with Javon via the British Library Caribbean Foodways project and also to my friend a...2021-09-1341 minLeckerFlat Pack (Kitchens #4)Prefabs – built to help counter the post war housing shortage - were actually some of the earliest examples of fitted kitchens in the UK, and came with built in fridges at time when this technology was unaffordable to most people. Jennie Thomas reflects on growing up in a post war prefab in Hackney, and Alice Wilson, whose academic work examines tiny houses, reflects on the movement as a reaction to the housing situation in contemporary Britain.
Lecker is written and produced by Lucy Dearlove.
Thanks to the contributors on this episode, Jennie Thomas and Alice Wilson. Fi...2021-09-0642 minLeckerThe Unsociable Kitchen (Kitchens #3)Why are so many of our kitchens so unsociable? Lucy meets Johnny Grey, a kitchen designer who’s been fighting for decades to make kitchens a place for leisure not work, and Katie Pennick, a disability campaigner whose work has changed the face of London transport – but who still can’t cook in her own kitchen. Plus Sean Warmington-Wan reflects on the unsociable kitchen in his shared London house.
Lecker is written and produced by Lucy Dearlove.
Thanks to the contributors on this episode: Sean Warmington-Wan, Katie Pennick and Johnny Grey.
You can find a full...2021-08-3046 minLeckerMeal Machine (Kitchens #2)Kitchens are inextricably linked with the woman of the house. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given that the fitted kitchen was literally designed as a workspace to fit around a woman’s body. But what does this mean for women - and men - now? How are traditional gender roles built up and broken down by the kitchen itself? Michael Etheridge reflects on the distribution of domestic labour in his own home, and food writer Gemma Croffie talks about the narrow definition of accepted womanhood when it comes to domestic work.
A full transcript for this episode is available on the Le...2021-08-2343 minLeckerTrophy Cabinets (Kitchens #1)Aspirational kitchens are an integral part of our food media, but where did they come from? And what does it mean for those who can never attain a beautiful, cookbook-worthy kitchen? Design historian Professor Deborah Sugg Ryan explores what came before the fitted kitchen, and how the room itself has shape-shifted drastically over the 20th century. And food writer and author Ruby Tandoh considers the aspirational kitchen in food writing.
Episode 1 of Kitchens, a podcast series by Lecker about the most important room in the home.
You can find a full transcript for this episode on...2021-08-1644 minLeckerS4: Introducing...Kitchens (TRAILER)Wall-mounted cabinets, continuous work surfaces, oven, hob, sink, fridge. Maybe a table, often not. Could this be describing your kitchen? The fitted kitchen is ubiquitous in British homes. But we all have different lives, tastes, needs; we cook different foods. How did we all end up with the same kitchen?
Rooted in the memories and personal stories embedded in people's kitchens, Kitchens is a six part podcast series combining the history of design and food to understand the current context of how and where we cook. Lucy Dearlove meets contemporary academicians such as design historian Professor Deborah Sugg Ryan...2021-08-0902 minLeckerTiny FeastsMany people have celebrated special occasions differently this year, finding ways to recreate communal food traditions for themselves. Our feasts may have shrunk, but we're still joined together through the kitchen and through the plate.
In this episode, hear four stories of personal food rituals reimagined and recreated in 2020: Jane's bread sauce, Emma and Ingrid's Venezuelan ham bread, Adi's Bacalhau com natas and Pratyusha's pongal.
Music
Quiet Sill by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)
Solemn Application by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)
The Big Ten by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.b...2020-12-2342 minLeckerAnne Willan's CookbooksAnne Willan has more than 60 years experience as a teacher, author, and culinary historian, and over 30 books to her name. Speaking to me around the release of her new book, Women In The Kitchen: Twelve Essential Cookbook Writers Who Defined The Way We Eat from 1661 to Today (Simon & Schuster), she shared some stories from her amazing life in food.
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2020-08-2427 minLeckerThe Many Kitchens of Rachel KhooTV chef and cookbook author Rachel Khoo talks about privilege, being mixed race in the UK food industry and her new show Simple Pleasures.
You can buy the Simple Pleasures eBook for £5 here, with all proceeds going to the Film and TV Charity UK.2020-07-0626 minLeckerBonnag: A Manx DocumentaryAlthough she’s originally from the Isle of Man, Katie Callin has never made the most traditionally Manx of all foods: the bonnag - a soda raised baked good with links to the nation’s pre-industrial past, and to its folklore too.
She returns to her family home in St Johns on the west coast of the island to enter the World Bonnag Championships and, under the guidance of her mum Vanessa, she uncovers the secrets of great bonnag making.
Music:
Blue Dot Sessions - Chapel Bottom (https://www.sessions.blue/)
Blue Dot Sessions - Ho...2020-05-1335 minLeckerLockdown Cocktails with Sean BlakeSean Blake is (in his own words) a part time food and drink photographer, music producer, low skilled worker and full time dad. He’s a big advocate for making food and drink more approachable and less wanky, and he makes the best cocktails of anyone I've ever met. Having managed the bar and designed menus for the likes of the Polpo group, Brunswick House, Pitt Cue Co, run Sean's Bar pop ups all over London, been a YBF finalist, and co-founded Corals in Peckham with Lerryn Whitfield, I thought he would be a great person to talk to about ma...2020-04-1719 minLeckerLockdown Fermentation with Jelena BelgraveWhen our food supply is threatened, or feels like it is, preserving fresh produce is a natural response. Jelena Belgrave, whose fermentation class I took part in over Zoom last week, grew up with communal preservation traditions in her native Serbia; she explores via voicenotes how the instinct to store food for herself and her family is rooted in her own history.
You can read more about Jelena and her work on her website oblutak.co.uk and find her on Instagram @potsandfoodtoshare.
Music:
Blue Dot Sessions - Lakal
2020-04-1516 minLeckerLockdown Sourdough with Rebecca SpavenIn these strange times I’ve been thinking about food almost constantly. Unable to go out to eat (or go out much at all), food dominates my waking life even more than normal. Like many people on the internet, I’ve started using the solid blocks of time I have at home to start learning to bake sourdough, and I’ve been thinking a lot about why I’m so drawn to this and why I find it so absorbing.
Via the medium of voicenotes, I asked my friend Rebecca Spaven, a professional baker, to consider where the domestic...2020-04-1315 minLeckerBritish Caribbean Food History with Catherine Ross and Lynda-Louise BurrellCatherine Ross and her daughter Lynda-Louise Burrell are the founders of Museumand, a Nottingham-based a social history and community 'museum without walls' dedicated to preserving Caribbean history, heritage and culture in original and unusual ways.
I joined them for a Friday afternoon sweet tea to talk about the influence - and ingenuity - of slavery within Caribbean food, the hurdles they've overcome in setting up the museum, and their favourite coconut-based sweet treats.
You can find out about Museumand's work here and follow them on twitter here and Instagram here.2020-03-1331 minLeckerTaro Fukunaga's Tokyo Tea RoomTokyo: a symphony for the ears. Of Pachinko, cicadas and Taro's tea ceremony.
With thanks to Taro and Tomoko (and Rory).
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2020-02-1316 min
The ListenerS2 Ep2: The Inimitable Saima Thompson Podcast: Lecker (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: S2 Ep2: The Inimitable Saima ThompsonPub date: 2019-03-11Notes from The Listener:Food-based conversation show talks to a 29 year old chef with incurable lung cancer. From a critical point of view, setting aside the obviously tragic personal content for a moment, a really good terminal illness interview is hard to find. Many examples have a false-feeling sense of grit and redemption — the “I battled cancer and I won that fight!” narrative. Others are moving but lack thoughtfulness. This is a rare, excellent example. Saima is upbe...2020-01-2931 minLeckerItalian Prescriptiveness with Livia FranchiniThe Italian author Livia Franchini reflects on edible themes in her debut novel Shelf Life, and considers the prescriptiveness of Italian cooking.
Read more about this episode at leckerpodcast.com.
Sign up to the Lecker tinyletter for an extra bite, this time about tomatoes.
You can find Livia's recipe for Orecchiette ai Cimini di Rapa here.
Livia can be found on Twitter, and on Instagram.
Shelf Life came out in paperback on Doubleday in January 2020 and is available from all good booksellers (I like Hive).
Music:
Blue Dot S...2020-01-1330 min
The magCulture PodcastEpisode 16, December 2019 • Highlights of the Year • Martha Dillon • Rod StanleyOur final Podcast of 2019 looks back at the year.
Recorded at the magCulture Shop, Jeremy Leslie shares his highlights of 2019 alongside a host of indie magazine publishers, including Buffalo Zine, MacGuffin, Flaneur and Sabat. Plus he meets Martha Dillon to discuss her essential magazine It’s Freezing in LA! There’s also an excerpt from our recent magCulture Meets Good Trouble event.
Huge thanks to our friends at Park Communications for their support of the magCulture Podcast
If you enjoy the magCulture Podcast please give it some love on iTunes, Soundcloud or wherever you’re listening. And drop us an email...2019-12-2341 minLeckerA Burmese Food Education with MiMi AyeThe food blogger and Burmese cookbook author MiMi Aye remembers the UK online food writing movement of the mid 2000s and shares the sour delights of Burmese food.
Read more about this episode at leckerpodcast.com.
Sign up to the Lecker tinyletter for an extra bite, this time about the secrets of Burmese tofu.
You can find the recipe for Coconut Chicken Noodles here, taken from Mandalay with kind permission from MiMi Aye.
MiMi can be found on her website, on Twitter, and on Instagram.
You can buy a copy of...2019-12-0230 min
The magCulture PodcastEpisode 15, November 2019 • magC Live • Ariane Spanier • Nova teamFor this episode, Jeremy Leslie is joined at the magCulture shop by Marc Robbemond from Amsterdam’s Athenaeum magazine shop.
We also hear from Ariane Spanier of Fukt magazine, listen in on David Hillman and Caroline Baker of sixties classic Nova in an excerpt from their recent magCulture Shop event, and podcast producer Lucy Dearlove removes her headphones to share the effect a zine had on her own podcast.
If you enjoy the magCulture Podcast please give it some love on iTunes, Soundcloud or wherever you’re listening. And drop us an email with suggestions: podcast@magculture.com
Huge thanks to o...2019-11-1836 min
LeckerBONUS: Extracts from Lecker Zine 01, live at Middle Lane MarketThis is a mini audio version of the recent print zine I released! Featuring readings from Octavia Bright, Jennifer Obidike, Rhiannon Schabernack, Ruby Dhalay and Kelly Shearer, recorded at the zine launch party at Middle Lane Market in North London in November 2019.
Thanks to Kelly and Andrew Shearer of Middle Lane Market for hosting the event.
The first run of the zine has now sold out, but follow @leckerpodcast on Twitter and Instagram to be the first to hear the launch date for the second run.
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Music...2019-11-1823 min
The magCulture PodcastEpisode 14, September 2019 • The Face • Penny Martin • Marie ClaireOur latest Podcast, recorded at the magCulture Shop in London, is a bumper edition that hangs loosely around the theme of change.
The episode opens with Jeremy and Liv flicking through recent new mags, starting with The Face, freshly relaunched after a 15 year hiatus. Can it possibly live up to expectations?
The pair also look at this year’s print edition of gal-dem and the exciting new Buffalo Zine, and are joined briefly by Erik from Lyrics As Poetry before heading off down a crazy magazine archeaology rabbit hole with guest Danny No.
The ups and downs of the contemporary wo...2019-09-2452 minLeckerClaire Roberson's Adopted Sicilian HospitalityClaire Roberson is an excellent person to know if you want to know what to eat in Sicily. She introduces me to pesto alla Trapanese, prepared in the kitchen of her Palermo apartment.
Claire is on instagram @everythingbut and can also be found/contacted via her website everythingbut.me
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Music:
Blue Dot Sessions - Chromium Blush2019-09-2329 minLeckerCooking and ADHD by Isabelle O'CarrollIsabelle O'Carroll spent much of her adolescence and young adulthood being made to feel like an underachiever – until an ADHD diagnosis in her mid 30s made everything fall into place. She explains how the kitchen has always been a playground for her - and also a place of solace over the years.
Isabelle's pieces:
How Cooking Made Me See My ADHD as a Talent Instead of a Shame
3 Refugees Living In The UK Cook Their Favourite Meals From Home
Find Isabelle on instagram: @isabelle_oc and on twitter @isabelleoc. Check out her recent Le...2019-09-0928 min
The magCulture PodcastEpisode 13, August 2019 • Der Greif • Gym Class • Safar • SpyJeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall talk magazines, recorded at the magCulture Shop in London.
The episode opens with a look at magCulture’s late summer plans, leading into a an overview recent new issues including the first issue of Belissimo and fourth issue of Safar Journal. We also hear from Steven Gregor at Gym Class about the zine-y nature of his new edition and Anna Broujean of Club Sandwich reveals future plans.
Jeremy and Liv take a close look at the challenging recent issue of German photo mag Der Greif. The images it contains were deemed so potentially offensive that St...2019-08-2746 min
The magCulture PodcastEpisode 12, July 2019. Moonlandings, Pin-Up x American Chordata.Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall talk magazines, recorded at the magCulture in London with a dash to Manhattan for some chat from our NY visit.
The episode opens with a look back at how The Sunday Times Magazine reported the Apollo 11 moon landings, 50 years ago. Jeremy and Liv discuss this years Stack Awards, which have just been launchec, and then flick through new issues of Club Sandwich, C 41 and student magazine Garment from Amsterdam.
We then switch to New York to listen in on part our MagMagMag event at Vitsoe; editors Alison Lewis (American Chordata) and Felix Burrichter(Pin-Up)discuss...2019-07-3045 minLeckerA Parisian Heatwave Dinner with Ellen Quinn BanvilleLecker is in Paris! Eating the perfect tomato salad with Ellen Quinn Banville. Talking tuck, salt and explaining pulled pork to a Parisian butcher.
Thanks to Ellen and Finola for permission to use tracks from Pembroke's album At Sea - in this episode you can hear Dizzy, Thump Thump and The Fear.
https://www.pembroke-music.com/
Find Ellen on Instagram @ellenquinnbanville
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2019-07-2939 min
XMTR Radio HourXMTR #03: Art heists, a baroness with a vision and a shopping centre in MerseysidePart 1: An extract from The Art of The Heist from the podcast Undiscovered produced by London based team Message Heard. This investigative piece narrated by Jake Warren and produced by Sandra Ferrari, uncovers why Chinese artefacts have been been disappearing from cultural institutions and museums around the works and are being bought by Chinese billionaire collectors and how the Chinese government might be involved. Part 2: An extract from Amanda Fielding from The Last Bohemians podcast produced by Kate Hutchinson with this episode produced by Lucy Dearlove. The Last Bohemians is a series of interviews with women and mavericks...2019-06-1459 min
The magCulture PodcastEpisode 10, May 2019. Adam Moss interviewed.Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall talk magazines, recorded at the magCulture in London and at our New York MagMagMag popup.
The episode starts in London; Jeremy and Liv take a look at a selection of recent arrivals including Violet Book, Apartamento, RAID and Subway. Plus we hear from photographer Jenny van Sommers about shooting the latest cover of The Gourmand.
We then switch to our MagMagMag pop-up in New York. To open this collaboration with our friends at Vitsoe, we welcomed a series of guests to discuss their magazines with Jeremy.
Here, he meets Adam Moss, generally regarded as one...2019-05-1753 min
Eat This PodcastEating Alone
At the beginning of April, during the Hearsay International Audio Arts Festival, a little marquee in the main square of Kilfinane, a small mountain village, saw a steady stream of visitors enter. They would put on a pair of headphones, listen for a few minutes, and come out beaming a big smile. They had just heard one of the stories in a specially curated installation called Table for One.
After listening to one of the stories myself, I was inspired to reflect on my own thoughts about eating alone, and that prompted me to...2019-04-2918 min
The magCulture PodcastEpisode 9, April 2019. Buffalo Zine and magazine parodiesJeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall discuss how magazines parody the format, with a look at the recent ninth issue of Buffalo Zine and its ten parody cover designs. We look back at Joseph Ernst’s wonderful Naked Woman Covered in Glitter, and Words and hear from Claire Milbraith about Editorial Magazine’s new mascot (itself a form of parody).
There’s also a look at a bunch of recent arrivals including The South London Review of Hand Dryers, Failed States and Gusher, plus Vince Aletti’s fabulous book of fashion magazine photography ‘Issues’.
The magCulture Podcast is supported by Park Communicatio...2019-04-2337 minLeckerThe Misunderstanding of Regional German Food with Christie DietzLondon born and Wiesbaden based, food writer Christie Dietz is an authority on and enthusiastic consumer of German food. She prepares two Wiesbaden regional specialities: Frankfurter grüne Soße and Handkäse mit Musik and talks about the notion of home, the misalignment of regional German food and the murky history of the country's vegetable royalty.
Christie writes about food at https://www.asausagehastwo.com/
Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MRx-VnU-DJmt9rCZMRVOgb1fn38RprcLJC6peNIrQnw/edit?usp=sharing
Music:
Blue Dot Sessions - Lemon and Melon
Blue Dot...2019-04-2339 min
LeckerTable For One: SoupHello! This is a bonus episode of Lecker from me, a slightly hoarse Lucy Dearlove. This is a very short piece, produced for Table For One, an audio installation I produced during a recent residency at this year's HearSay Audio Arts Festival in beautiful Kilfinane, Ireland.
There are four stories in total, each one a different tale of eating alone, which visitors to the installation listened to while seated at a specially dressed table for one in the main square of the town. Everyone who shared their story with me has been left anonymous and is only id...2019-04-1806 minLeckerTable For One: Brown BreadHello! This is a bonus episode of Lecker from me, a slightly hoarse Lucy Dearlove. This is a very short piece, produced for Table For One, an audio installation I produced during a recent residency at this year's HearSay Audio Arts Festival in beautiful Kilfinane, Ireland.
There are four stories in total, each one a different tale of eating alone, which visitors to the installation listened to while seated at a specially dressed table for one in the main square of the town. Everyone who shared their story with me has been left anonymous and is only i...2019-04-1806 minLeckerTable For One: CerealHello! This is a bonus episode of Lecker from me, a slightly hoarse Lucy Dearlove. This is a very short piece, produced for Table For One, an audio installation I produced during a recent residency at this year's HearSay Audio Arts Festival in beautiful Kilfinane, Ireland.
There are four stories in total, each one a different tale of eating alone, which visitors to the installation listened to while seated at a specially dressed table for one in the main square of the town. Everyone who shared their story with me has been left anonymous and is only i...2019-04-1805 minLeckerTable For One: PastaHello! This is a bonus episode of Lecker from me, a slightly hoarse Lucy Dearlove. This is a very short piece, produced for Table For One, an audio installation I produced during a recent residency at this year's HearSay Audio Arts Festival in beautiful Kilfinane, Ireland.
There are four stories in total, each one a different tale of eating alone, which visitors to the installation listened to while seated at a specially dressed table for one in the main square of the town. Everyone who shared their story with me has been left anonymous and is only i...2019-04-1807 min
The magCulture PodcastEpisode 8, March 2019. Longevity of magazinesJeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall discuss the culture of magazines, recorded at the magCulture Shop.
In this eighth episode, Jeremy and Liv discuss longevity and magazines, asking how many issues it takes for a magazine to assert its existence and noting the trend for limited publishing programmes; Justinien Tribillon from Migrant Journal explains how they plan to mark the end of their planned six-issue run this summer.
They also celebrate the arrival of the latest issues of Interview, The New Yorker, Lindsay and Twin, welcome Dazed Beauty and ponder the return of The Face.
For this episode’s Back Issue, fo...2019-03-2634 min
LayersAcceptanceThis episode’s theme is Acceptance, and Ana and Stevie are joined from LA by guest producer Kara Hart. She meets the founders of fashion label Universal Standard to discuss what Rihanna once described as “the pleasures of a fluctuating body”. Plus, some thoughts on dungarees, unlearning, and whether Stevie is allowed to shop in Massimo Dutti yet.
Kara Hart is an audio producer in Los Angeles. You can learn more at https://karahart.info/
Universal Standard is available online https://www.universalstandard.com/collections/new
Find us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/la...2019-03-2530 min
LeckerLeaps of Faith and Lemon Drizzle with Marie MitchellI met chef Marie Mitchell in mid 2017, when I booked her as a guest on another podcast I was producing, in honour of the supper club she was running with her parents, Pop's Kitchen, and was blown away by her charm, food ethics (she takes the sourcing of her ingredients very seriously) and most of all her incredible cooking. She bakes a lemon drizzle cake at her East London flat and talks about the leap of faith it took to start to cook professionally, London Caribbean identity, and why her family has played such an important part in her...2019-03-2537 minLeckerThe Inimitable Saima ThompsonSaima Thompson, née Arshad, was one of my guests on the very first episode of Lecker back in late 2016 when I interviewed her and her mother Nabeela in their restaurant Masala Wala Cafe.
Last year, aged just 29, Saima was diagnosed with incurable Stage 4 lung cancer. I met her again, this time to talk about living with cancer and how running a restaurant fits in with her diagnosis.
Please note that as well as discussion around cancer this episode also mentions miscarriage.
Produced and hosted by Lucy Dearlove
Saima Thompson blogs at...2019-03-1131 min
The Last BohemiansAmanda Feilding: beat poets, psychedelics and self-trepanation with the leading LSD campaigner and countessAmanda Feilding is flying the flag for the medical benefits of recreational drugs like cannabis and LSD with her pioneering work at The Beckley Foundation. Based out of the 75-year-old's tumbling country pile in Oxfordshire – which is ringed by a moat and has an island encircled with temple-like pillars – the foundation funds leading research into the medical benefits of psychedelics and mind-altering substances. Amanda is also a countess whose lineage traces back to Charles II of England. In the 1960s, after travelling around Sri Lanka on her own, she discovered acid and hung out with the beat poets of th...2019-03-0430 minLayersHandsomeAna and Stevie contemplate handsomeness when it comes to getting dressed. It's a word so often associated with conventionally good-looking men, but why should it be? Together with two special guests, they consider handsomeness as a descriptor to be claimed regardless of where one is on the gender spectrum.
Georgeous Michael talks us through transformational accoutrements, while Dazed Fashion Editor Emma Hope Allwood contemplates Le Smoking and handsome women in art.
An array of voices discuss their favourite season for dressing in, and there's also talk of ascribing certain items of clothing as 'masculine' or...2019-03-0443 min
The magCulture PodcastEpisode 7, February 2019. Magazines, waste and sustainability.Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall discuss the culture of magazines, recorded at the magCulture Shop.
In this seventh monthly episode, Jeremy and Liv discuss the paradox of printing a magazine about climate change and the wastage built into the long-standing system of magazine distribution. With contributions from Martha Dillon of It’s Freezing in LA and Rob Orchard from Delayed Gratification and a look at sustainable fashion magazine More or Less.
They also celebrate the arrival of the latest issues of The Gentlewoman and American Chordate, the cover of the latest Monocle, and the launch of football x fashion mag Ga...2019-02-2536 min
LeckerBrooklyn Breakfast with Aysen GerlachWelcome to a brand new series of Lecker! We're in NYC for this first episode (South Brooklyn to be exact) as I meet Aysen Gerlach, an artist and cheesemonger whose illustrated food memoir Food Stuff caught my eye in the MoMA PS1 bookstore. She makes me bacon, egg and cheese on a biscuit as we talk baking tricks, the significance of breakfast sandwiches to East-Coasters and how she came to make a book about her life in food.
Produced and hosted by Lucy Dearlove
Featuring Aysen Gerlach https://www.aysengerlach.com/. Find Aysen on instagram...2019-02-2530 min
LayersFolkIn this episode, Stevie Mackenzie-Smith and Ana Kinsella talk about folk and what it means to dress with one eye on where you’re from: Quintessentially British Laura Ashley, so-called ‘sailor pants’ and regional dress. Plus, as always, endless eBay hunts.
And we meet Alannah Eileen, a photographer from Orkney, about the importance of community, rural fashion and what happens to your style when you move to the big city.
You can see Alannah’s work on her Instagram https://www.instagram.com/alannah.eileen/ and her website https://www.alannaheileen.com. Find out more about Ter...2019-01-1424 minLayersBoyishIn this episode, Ana and Stevie are mulling over BOYISH dressing. Ana pays a visit to see Claire Marie Healy, Deputy Editor at Dazed & Confused, who shares the charm of her thrifted synthetic zip-up top, which makes her feel like an extra from Freaks and Geeks. There's also talk of clothes on film, feeling obliged to strive for femininity, and dressing your age (whatever that means).
Oh, and Stevie has had a personal style-related crisis after getting her clothes out of her storage unit. Great!
You can follow Claire Healy on Twitter: https://twitter.com...2018-12-1032 minLayersEnduringIn this episode, we consider the theme of ENDURING. What is it about certain items of clothes that make us return to them over and over? And what about when there are limits on how many clothes we can own? What makes the cut and stays in your life, and what doesn't?
Sirena Bergman, a London-based journalist talks to Stevie about how living on a houseboat means coming up with ingenious space-related solutions. And Francis McKee, a writer, curator and lecturer who lives in Glasgow tells us about the democracy of clothing via a self-imposed uniform he...2018-11-2632 minLayersChicThis episode, Ana and Stevie are thinking about 'chic', and specifically how spotting a chic person 'in the wild' is what makes people-watching so thrilling! They also hear from Colleen Hill, a curator at the Museum at FIT in New York about the pleasure she gets from working with this chic fashion archive, and how she gets dressed to work alongside such a collection.
This episode of Layers is sponsored by The White Company. You can peruse their cashmere and silky pyjamas here: http://www.thewhitecompany.com
Thank you also to our other sponsor, ESquared, a...2018-11-1228 minLayersFabulousWelcome back to Season 2 of Layers! We've missed you. In Episode 1, Ana and Stevie are thinking about dressing fabulously, and whether that's possible in an everyday context. They visit a charming cottage in Stratford-upon-Avon to meet a very fabulous older woman, Sarah Hosking, who is 78 years old and attributes resourcefulness and dressing joyfully to a well-lived life.
Sarah Hosking is the founder of Hosking Houses Trust, a charity that supports women writers over the age of 40 by providing them with a place to stay and work. You can donate to this wonderful cause here: http://hoskinghouses.co.u...2018-10-2936 minLayersConvictionIn the final episode of this season, Ana and Stevie discuss conviction. How should I dress? Is there anything I can’t wear? How does a designer know how their work should look? And - can I bring myself to throw this out?
Writer and self-confessed hoarder of precious things Isabelle O’Carroll joins us for a panel discussion/group therapy on closet clear-outs and cashmere jumpers. And we meet designers Levi Palmer and Matthew Harding - aka the Shirt Boys - about how they started a fashion label off the back of a simple white shirt. Our fi...2018-04-1047 minLeckerS0: The Joys of Pickles with Thom EagleThis episode is a Toast to Thom Eagle, the food writer, author and chef. Thom and Lucy talk vinegar pickles vs lactofermentation, Thom's new book and his top 5 pickles of all time.
Thom's book First, Catch is published by Quadrille on 5th April http://www.hardiegrant.com/uk/publishing/bookfinder/book/first_-catch-by-thom-eagle/9781787131477
Thom is head chef at Little Duck | The Picklery in Dalston https://www.littleduckpicklery.co.uk/
You can find him on twitter and insta @thomeagle and read his blog at thomeagle.com
Find us on Twitter and Instagram...2018-04-0316 minLayersPowerAna Kinsella and Stevie Mackenzie-Smith discuss power, or more specifically: "How do we dress when we want to feel powerful?"
Ultramarathon runner Sorrell Walsh tells us about dressing for physical power, while writer and 'Women Who' founder Otegha Uwagba considers "power dressing" at work - and what power dressing even means in 2018. Our latest Loved and Lost story comes from writer Eliot Haworth, who relives a very funny memory about pants in the jungle.
Otegha Uwagba is a writer, brand consultant and founder of Women Who, a community for working women. She's also the author o...2018-03-1538 minLayersRoutineFor Episode 4 Stevie Mackenzie-Smith and Ana Kinsella are talking routine. Fashion writer and curator Lou Stoppard tells us how to “curate” a wardrobe that makes sense for you (sorry, Lou) and we learn about wearing exclusively monochrome looks from radio producer and Soho resident Clare Lynch. Also, we hear some secrets on replenishment buying and discuss how to take care of your clothes, and yourself. Loved and Lost comes from writer Zsofia Paulikovics.
You can find Clare Lynch on Twitter at @clarelynchred and hear her show Soho Hour on Soho Radio on Thursdays at 9am.
Lou S...2018-02-2643 minLeckerA Romantic Dinner For One with Laura SilverHAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY, LOVERS AND LISTENERS.
A Valentine's special: Laura Silver prepares a romantic meal in her Peckham kitchen.
Laura is a news reporter for Buzzfeed. You can find her on Twitter @laurafleur.
Nigella Lawson's Lamb Shank For One is in her classic book Feast https://www.nigella.com/books/feast
Music from Joe Bagale and Bird Creek via YouTube Music Library.2018-02-1418 minLayersMovementIn Episode 3, Ana Kinsella and Stevie Mackenzie-Smith discuss movement. Novelist Sharlene Teo tells us about moving from Singapore to the UK, and we talk about dressing for the dancefloor with curator Tory Turk. Foreign correspondent Sally Hayden shares how she packs for overseas assignments. Our latest instalment of Loved and Lost comes from author Sophie Mackintosh.
Plus, Stevie takes a trip.
Super Sharp is at Fashion Space Gallery until April 21st. Read about it here http://www.fashionspacegallery.com/exhibition/super-sharp/
Find Sally on Twitter https://twitter.com/sallyhayd
Sharlene Teo’s...2018-02-0547 minLeckerA Belly Full with Riaz PhillipsToast (as in 'propose a') is a new monthly Lecker offshoot raising a glass to great and diverse food projects and enterprises.
In the first Toast, Lucy meets Riaz Phillips, a London-based photographer and writer whose book Belly Full was released last year. It's a celebration of Caribbean food history and culture in the UK told through photographs of and interviews with people who run a selection of restaurants, takeaways, shops and factories.
Over lunch Riaz explained how the book came out of posting pictures of his food online and why it's important to document a...2018-01-3123 minLayersEncountersIn Episode 2, Stevie and Ana talk Encounters. A fleeting glimpse of a stylish stranger while on holiday, an ongoing friendship with the woman who works in the local boutique, or bumping into an enigmatic stranger in a Soho club: often it’s the chance encounters we have that can really influence how we think about clothes.
Stevie makes a new friend, and Naomi Shimada tells us about her solo travels in Argentina. Sophie Davidson talks getting dressed for a memorable blind date. Ann-Maria McCarthy tells us of a vintage friendship, and Ana has a round-table on make-up an...2018-01-2250 minLayersBeginningsIn Episode 1, Ana Kinsella and Stevie Mackenzie-Smith talk about beginnings. We meet Abigail, who decided to make her own wedding dress for a beginning of her own, and Kate O’Donnell, who built up a wardrobe from scratch when she transitioned. Plus, a diary of those all-important first-day-at-work outfits from Colleen Kelsey in New York, and writer and cook Rebecca May Johnson shares a story of satin trousers for Loved and Lost.
Items: Is Fashion Modern? closes at MoMA this month. Read about it here: https://www.vogue.com/article/moma-items-is-fashion-modern
Stevie also mentions her tr...2018-01-0846 min
LeckerSunday Roast Rites with Joe MarshallThe food we cook and eat is so intricately shaped by our lives and what we've done and the people we've met. Some meals can conjure up the most powerful memories and bring people back into our lives in a very evocative way. Joe Marshall is a former vegetarian turned practised cooker of roasts - no mean feat on the river barge he calls home. And every single Sunday meal he makes has a much deeper, more emotional significance.
With thanks to Spark London, where I first saw Joe tell a version of this story http://stories...2018-01-0519 minLayersS1: PREVIEW: GlamourIn this preview episode we discuss GLAMOUR. Ana Kinsella and Stevie Mackenzie-Smith talk to Coline Bach, a celebrity stylist who's worked with Years & Years and Madonna, and dancer Kate Haughton shares memories of ballet and pointe shoes. Writer and poet Rosalind Jana reads a story about a much-loved ring inherited from her aunt Violet.
Music: E's Jammy Jams - Arabian Sand (via YouTube Music Library), Blue Dot Sessions - The Shoes They Wear (via Free Music Archive), Aaron Lieberman - Gypsy Stroll (via YouTube Music Library)
Production: Lucy Dearlove
#style #glamour #fashion2017-12-0420 min
LayersS1: Teaser - "To Feel Powerful I Wear..."What do you wear to feel powerful? And what do you really wish you could pull off? Four women answer.
LAYERS is a podcast of stories about style, women and how we get dressed.
Co-hosts Stevie Mackenzie-Smith and Ana Kinsella ask "Hey, what are you wearing? Can you tell me about it?" A preview episode on the theme of GLAMOUR launches 04/12/17, Series 1 starts 06/01/18.
Produced by Lucy Dearlove.2017-11-2901 min
LeckerKate Young's Literary KitchensI met Kate Young in the most on brand place imaginable - in the basement kitchen of Tottenham Court Road Waterstones. The Australian food writer and chef is equally obsessed with books as she is with food and her long-awaited book combining the two, The Little Library Cookbook, was published by Head of Zeus in September. While she prepared the food for a three course Virginia Woolf-themed supper club, we spoke about why food matters in fiction, how food makes up your sense of self and she told me something about Enid Blyton that BLEW MY MIND.
...2017-11-0825 min
LeckerSiân Stacey's Welsh Island LarderMy friend Siân Stacey has spent the past couple of years living on a Bardsey, a tiny landmass just off the coast of North Wales. She's the Island Manager, a brilliant job title which encompasses just about any task you can imagine keeping life on the island running smoothly for both its inhabitants and visitors. There are no shops on the island, and the boat doesn't always run every day so I had to find out...what does she eat?
Siân's blog: http://bardseyislandlife.blogspot.co.uk/
#lecker #food #cooking #homecooking #recipes #eating #wa...2017-10-1638 min
LeckerDee Woods and Leslie Barson: Community Food RevolutionFrom a kitchen in a community centre on an estate in South Kilburn, Dee Woods and Leslie Barson are cooking up a revolution. I joined them to chop and chat as they prepared a Peruvian inspired stew for one of their famous community film and food nights and talked food waste, the price of plantain and social reform through communal goats.
Illustration by Ben McDonald
Granville Community Kitchen https://granvillecommunitykitchen.wordpress.com/
#food #lecker #cooking #kitchen #granvillecommunitykitchen #activism #london #kilburn2017-08-0437 min
LeckerTaste of Tooting with Dipa Patel (Part 2)Even though she's lived all over the world, Dipa Patel has the grocers, restaurants and snack shops of Tooting in her blood. To preserve and celebrate her beloved food history, she's started Taste Of Tooting tours, where she leads groups around some of her favourite places in the area, introducing them to stalwarts in the Tooting Market food world and feeding them things they probably haven't tasted before. I joined her for an afternoon, and here's some of the things we ate and talked about.
This is Part 2! Listen to Part 1 first: https://audioboom.com/posts/6070841-06...2017-07-0332 min
LeckerTaste of Tooting with Dipa Patel (Part 1)Even though she's lived all over the world, Dipa Patel has the grocers, restaurants and snack shops of Tooting in her blood. To preserve and celebrate her beloved food history, she's started Taste Of Tooting tours, where she leads groups around some of her favourite places in the area, introducing them to stalwarts in the Tooting Market food world and feeding them things they probably haven't tasted before. I joined her for an afternoon, and here's some of the things we ate and talked about.
This is Part 1! Listen to this first, then listen to Part 2 here.
2017-07-0328 min