Comfortably Hungry Podcast
1) Bonus Episode: Serving Food History Forth
Ever wondered how someone gets into food history? What are the popular misconceptions about what we do? And do we ever have any recipe disasters?In this bonus episode I chat to my food history chums N...Show More
2) Bonus Episode: A Rough Patch
We heard briefly from food writer Kathy Slack about how gardening and cooking helped her overcome anxiety and depression back in Episode 10 of Season 3. Kathy is frank about her mental health struggle...Show More
3) Bonus Episode: A Literary Tea
In this bonus episode I take a look at how some of our best loved authors portray food in their books; why some fiction genres enjoy an enduring popularity and introduce you to the alter ego of a famo...Show More
4) Bonus Episode: Lee Miller - A life with food, friends and recipes
As promised this is the full version of the interview I did with Ami Bouhassane, co-director of the Lee Miller Archives and Farley’s House and Gallery in Sussex, and granddaughter of model, photograph...Show More
5) Bonus episode: While there is tea, there is hope
Today is the 80th anniversary of VE Day, the day the second world war ended in Europe. To mark the occasion I had a chat with journalist and author Alex Johnson about the importance of tea to the Brit...Show More
6) S3 E15 The Kingdom of Rye
Alas this day had to come - this is the last official episode of the DARK season!In Episode 15 I delve into the historical culinary trials and tribulations of Russia with Darra Goldstein, Professor Em...Show More
7) S3 E14: Long Pepper
In Episode 14 I get passionate about a particular type of pepper which was once so highly prized the Visigoths demand 3000lb of the stuff to leave Rome. Joining me to explore the history and usage of ...Show More
8) S3 E13: Murder In The Kitchen
Alice B Toklas reckoned that ‘food is far too pleasant to combine with horror.’ In Episode 13 I will be exploring how food is used in crime fiction with writer and host of the Shedunnit podcast Caroli...Show More
9) S3 E12 Cooking for health (exploring melancholy part 2)
In the first part (Episode 10) of this investigation into the impact food has on our mental health I explored the renaissance fascination with melancholy with Professor Mary Ann Lund and food historia...Show More
10) S3 E11 A Fruit with an Image Problem?
In Episode 11 I am investigating a fruit with a bit of an image problem. Carob (Ceratonia siliqua) is the fruit of an evergreen tree native to the Mediterranean. The view of carob as a subsistence foo...Show More