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Let Them Eat BooksLet Them Eat Books Episode 10: The Side Dish: Coffee And Walnut CakeA Bake Sale Classic, Colin and Claire delve into the creamy buttercream icing of a coffee and walnut cake while sharing some of their own poems and getting the giggles!
2025-07-2929 minLet Them Eat BooksLet Them Eat Books Episode 9: WalnutsAlways tough nuts to crack, Colin and Claire discuss the walnut this week. Featuring writing from Takashi Hiraide and André Malraux, they delve into every crack and crevice of these weird brain-shapes with their own weird brain-shapes.
2025-07-2253 minLet Them Eat BooksLet Them Eat Books Episode 8: The Side Dish: Aberdeen ButteriesThis episode of the podcast sees Claire and Colin road trip to Aberdeen to taste-test Aberdeen Butteries or Rowies, the flaky pastry that’s beloved in the North East. Visiting Ross of Chapel Street, The Bread Guys, The Bread Maker, Byron Bakery and Ross on Swithin Street, we eat more Butteries than is good for us!
2025-07-1517 minLet Them Eat BooksLet Them Eat Books Episode 7: ButterIn this episode of Let Them Eat Books Claire and Colin spread themselves thinly as they talk about Butter, focusing on the novel Butter by Asako Yuzuki. They also taste a delicious dish involving Echire Butter and even reflect on Ellen Dillon’s book Butter Intervention.
2025-07-0845 minLet Them Eat BooksLet Them Eat Books: Episode 6 The Side Dish: Breakfast with Sandy ChristieClaire and Colin are joined for this episode with the artist Sandy Christie! After some technical mishaps, the Let Them Eat Books team were able to have not one but two delicious Breakfasts! Recorded at Down the Hatch cafe in South Queensferry. Sandy shares his thoughts on breakfast, his famous Pea-mous recipe, and insights into his artistic practice.
2025-07-0150 minLet Them Eat BooksLet Them Eat Books Episode 5: BreakfastThe most important podcast of the day brings you their take on the most important meal of the day! Colin and Claire take on all things breakfast, including discussion of the work of Anthony Capildeo, AA Milne, J R R Tolkien, Thom Gunn, Elizabeth David and Gary Shteyngart! Claire and Colin also disagree over the merits of Hotel Buffets and discuss some of their breakfast haunts from Peebles Hydro in the Borders, Very Bad Hotel in Kaunas, Lake Annecy, Cottonrake Bakery and Eusebi Deli in Glasgow and many more!
2025-06-2447 minLet Them Eat BooksLet Them Eat Books Episode 4: The Side Dish: Piña ColadaThe focus of this week’s Side Dish is the legendary cocktail the Piña Colada. Colin and Claire discuss its various origin myths, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Swinging in Waitrose, and even Rupert Holmes’s famous song!
2025-06-1723 minLet Them Eat BooksLet Them Eat Books Episode 3: PineappleIn the second full-length episode, Colin and Claire talk about the place of the pineapple in literary and culinary cultures, with discussion of Gabriel García Márquez‘s novel Love in the Time of Cholera, Clarice Lispector’s short story ‘The Sharing of the Loaves’, Colombian Pop Star Lao Ra, The Dunmore Pineapple, Pineapple Carpaccio, Ham and Pineapple on a pizza and much more!
2025-06-1036 minLet Them Eat BooksLet Them Eat Books Episode 2: The Side Dish: Jam Roly PolyCo-hosted by Claire Reynolds and Colin Herd, our first “Side Dish” stars the classic pudding Jam Roly Poly. This episode includes discussion of Rivals - the show inspired by Jilly Cooper’s novel of the same name, ‘A Cup of Tea’, the short story by Katherine Mansfield and ‘Strawberries’, the poem by Edwin Morgan.
2025-06-0222 minLet Them Eat BooksLet Them Eat Books Episode 1: BerriesClaire and Colin talk all things berry in this “berry” entertaining opening show! From pick your own fruit farms to Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney, the mythic origins of strawberries and berries in the bathtub, this episode is jam-packed with tart, zingy, delicious fruit!
Theme Tune: Clare Roberts
Editing: Max Parnell
2025-05-2638 min