S5 Ep8: Food Memoir with Rebecca May Johnson and Angela Hui
A conversation between Angela Hui and Rebecca May Johnson, recorded just after their respective debut non-fiction books had been published. An exploration of the importance of valuing and demonstrating labour within cooking, of novelty versus repetition, and of the idea of rejecting food writing as a category. You can find Takeaway by Angela Hui (https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Angela-Hui/Takea...
56m Oct 06, 2022
56m
S5 Ep7: Back to School with Jeremy Pang
What'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 (https://adriennekatzkennedy.com/) and produced by Lucy Dearlove. You can find out more about Jeremy Pang at https://jeremypang.co.uk and his new book, Jeremy Pang’s School of Wok is out now, wok clock illustrations and all. Ben McDonald ...
36m Sep 27, 2022
36m
S5 Ep6: Matooke Goes With Everything
A love letter to the beating heart of Ugandan food, Matooke. With Katasi E. Kironde and Nakigudde Elizabeth Kibalama. Katasi is the founder of Elevate 256 (https://www.elevate256.com/) , an organisation that creates and curates inspiration content and events centred around Uganda. She was also a co-host on Unsavoury Ethnic Types podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/unsavoury-ethnic-t...
31m Jul 13, 2022
31m
S5 Ep5: Just Cooking Outdoors with Helen Graves
Helen 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. (https://www.hardiegrant.com/uk/publishing/bookfinder/book/live-fire-by-helen-graves/9781784884789) Helen Graves (https://www.instagram.com/foodstories/) is a food and rec...
39m Jun 13, 2022
39m
S5 Ep4: Oranges and Lemons
An audio exploration of our love of citrus, with chef Selin Kiazim (https://selinkiazim.com/home/oklava/) and writer Nina Mingya Powles (https://www.ninapowles.com/) . Three: Acid, Texture, Contrast by Selim Kiazim (https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Selin-Kiazim/Three--Acid-Texture-Contrast---The-Essential-Foundations-/25622516) and Small Bodies of Water by Nina Mingya Powles (https://www.hive.co...
36m Apr 28, 2022
36m
S5 Ep3: A Woman Eating Or Not Eating with Claire Kohda
There'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 s...
30m Mar 28, 2022
30m
S5 Ep2: Hot Pot is for Everyone
You’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...
37m Feb 21, 2022
37m
S5 Ep1: The Granville Revisited
A 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...
46m Jan 17, 2022
46m
S4 Ep6: A 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 s...
43m Sep 20, 2021
43m
S4 Ep5: The 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. (https://www.leckerpodcast.com/episodes/thehearthofthehome) Lecker is written and produced by Lucy Dearlove ...
42m Sep 13, 2021
42m
S4 Ep4: Flat 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 reacti...
42m Sep 06, 2021
42m
S4 Ep3: The 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...
47m Aug 30, 2021
47m
S4 Ep2: Meal 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...
43m Aug 23, 2021
43m
S4 Ep1: Trophy 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 conside...
44m Aug 16, 2021
44m
S4: 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...
3m Aug 09, 2021
3m
S3 Ep10: Tiny Feasts
Many 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...
43m Dec 23, 2020
43m
S3 Ep9: Anne Willan's Cookbooks
Anne 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. I would be really grateful if you could spare...
27m Aug 24, 2020
27m
S3 Ep8: The Many Kitchens of Rachel Khoo
TV 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 (https://www.rachelkhoo.com/product/simple-pleasures-book) , with all proceeds going to the Film and TV Charity UK.
26m Jul 06, 2020
26m
S3 Ep7: Bonnag: A Manx Documentary
Although 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 uncov...
36m May 12, 2020
36m
S3 Ep6: Lockdown Cocktails with Sean Blake
Sean 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...
20m Apr 17, 2020
20m
S3 Ep5: Lockdown Fermentation with Jelena Belgrave
When 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...
16m Apr 15, 2020
16m
S3 Ep4: Lockdown Sourdough with Rebecca Spaven
In 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.  ...
16m Apr 13, 2020
16m
S3 Ep3: British Caribbean Food History with Catherine Ross and Lynda-Louise Burrell
Catherine 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...
32m Mar 13, 2020
32m
S3 Ep2: Taro Fukunaga's Tokyo Tea Room
Tokyo: a symphony for the ears. Of Pachinko, cicadas and Taro's tea ceremony. With thanks to Taro and Tomoko (and Rory). Follow @leckerpodcast on Twitter (https://twitter.com/leckerpodcast) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/leckerpodcast/) and subscribe to the Lecker tinyletter (https://tinyletter.com/LECKER)
17m Feb 13, 2020
17m
S3 Ep1: Italian Prescriptiveness with Livia Franchini
The 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 (http://bit.ly/30b4zfG) . Sign up to the Lecker tinyletter (http://bit.ly/2q0FcQ5) for an extra bite, this time about tomatoes. You can find Livia's recipe for Orecchiette ai Cimini di Rapa here (http...
31m Jan 13, 2020
31m
S2 Ep9: A Burmese Food Education with MiMi Aye
The 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 (http://bit.ly/2rCZpMa) . Sign up to the Lecker tinyletter (http://bit.ly/2q0FcQ5) for an extra bite, this time about the secrets of Burmese tofu. You can find the recipe for Coconut C...
30m Dec 02, 2019
30m
S2 Ep8: BONUS: Extracts from Lecker Zine 01, live at Middle Lane Market
This 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 (https://www.middlelanemarket.com/) for hosting the event. The first run ...
24m Nov 18, 2019
24m
S2 Ep7: Claire Roberson's Adopted Sicilian Hospitality
Claire 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 (https://www.instagram.com/everythingbut/) and can also be found/contacted via her website everythingbut.me (https://www.everythingbut.me/) Lecker is on instagram @leckerpodcas...
29m Sep 23, 2019
29m
S2 Ep6: Cooking and ADHD by Isabelle O'Carroll
Isabelle 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 (https://www.bonappe...
28m Sep 09, 2019
28m
S2 Ep5: A Parisian Heatwave Dinner with Ellen Quinn Banville
Lecker 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 (https://www.instagram.c...
39m Jul 29, 2019
39m
S2 Ep4: The Misunderstanding of Regional German Food with Christie Dietz
London 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.asa...
40m Apr 23, 2019
40m
S3 Ep4: Table For One: Pasta
Hello! 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 t...
7m Apr 18, 2019
7m
S3 Ep3: Table For One: Cereal
Hello! 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 t...
5m Apr 18, 2019
5m
S3 Ep2: Table For One: Brown Bread
Hello! 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 t...
7m Apr 18, 2019
7m
S3 Ep1: Table For One: Soup
Hello! 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 t...
7m Apr 18, 2019
7m
S2 Ep3: Leaps of Faith and Lemon Drizzle with Marie Mitchell
I 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 ...
37m Mar 25, 2019
37m
S2 Ep2: The Inimitable Saima Thompson
Saima 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 no...
32m Mar 11, 2019
32m
S2 Ep1: Brooklyn Breakfast with Aysen Gerlach
Welcome 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 ...
31m Feb 25, 2019
31m
S0: The Joys of Pickles with Thom Eagle
This 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 D...
16m Apr 03, 2018
16m
S1 Ep11: A Romantic Dinner For One with Laura Silver
HAPPY 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.
19m Feb 14, 2018
19m
A Belly Full with Riaz Phillips
Toast (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 selec...
24m Jan 31, 2018
24m
S1 Ep10: Sunday Roast Rites with Joe Marshall
The 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 deepe...
20m Jan 05, 2018
20m
S1 Ep9: Kate Young's Literary Kitchens
I 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 suppe...
26m Nov 08, 2017
26m
S1 Ep8: Siân Stacey's Welsh Island Larder
My 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 ha...
38m Oct 16, 2017
38m
S1 Ep7: Dee Woods and Leslie Barson: Community Food Revolution
From 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 Kitche...
37m Aug 03, 2017
37m
S1 Ep6: Taste 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 t...
32m Jul 02, 2017
32m
S1 Ep6: Taste 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 t...
29m Jul 02, 2017
29m
S1 Ep5: Laoise Casey's Life-Changing Dishes
Irish-born and now based in South London, chef Laoise Casey's life used to be very different. Then an extremely stressful and difficult event in her life led her to choose an alternative path and follow her dream of cooking for a living. Lecker is a podcast about the life-changing power of a good meal, where guests spill the beans about their lives in food. Produced and hosted by Lucy Dearlove...
21m May 09, 2017
21m
S1 Ep4: Francesca Baker's Recipes For Recovery
A few years ago, Francesca Baker had the idea for a recipe book specifically designed for people recovering from eating disorders. Eating and Living: Recipes For Recovery was born - I met her to talk about how it came about. Lecker is a podcast about the life-changing power of a good meal, where guests spill the beans about their lives in food. Produced and hosted by Lucy Dearlove. (cn: food,...
13m Mar 08, 2017
13m
S1 Ep3: Korean Food in Translation with Matthew Jordan & Bohwa Kang
Matthew & Bohwa have just started The Little Korean, a Korean streetfood business based on Teesside. In their kitchen in Norton, they make traditional mandu (dumplings) to Bohwa's mum's recipe and talk kimchi fridges, the importance of colour in Korean dishes and food as a cure for homesickness. Lecker is a podcast about the life-changing power of a good meal, where guests spill the beans whil...
26m Dec 07, 2016
26m