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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'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.blue) A Catalog of Seasons by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue) Gusty Hollow by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue) Mogul by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue) Silent Flock by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)

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 a couple of minutes to fill out the Lecker Listener Survey!

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, with all proceeds going to the Film and TV Charity UK.

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 uncovers the secrets of great bonnag making. Music: Blue Dot Sessions - Chapel Bottom (https://www.sessions.blue/) Blue Dot Sessions - Home Home At Last (https://www.sessions.blue/) Blue Dot Sessions - Stale Case (https://www.sessions.blue/) Blue Dot Sessions - Petaluma (https://www.sessions.blue/) Blue Dot Sessions - Plaid Shapes (https://www.sessions.blue/) Blue Dot Sessions - Cicle Veroni (https://www.sessions.blue/) Blue Dot Sessions - The Spills (https://www.sessions.blue/) Blue Dot Sessions - Flagger (https://www.sessions.blue/)

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 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 making the most interesting drinks possible with the dregs of your cupboards. But it turns out there's a much bigger conversation to be had about the future of drinking once this is all over. You can find Sean on instagram @eatseanblake; I'm sharing some of his incredible photography on the Lecker instagram too @leckerpodcast. Support your local bar/pub/distillery/brewery at this time. Sean recommends Sweet Dram, a distillery founded in Peckham, now based in Edinburgh. They n

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 and her work on her website oblutak.co.uk and find her on Instagram @potsandfoodtoshare. Music: Blue Dot Sessions - Lakal

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.  Via the medium of voicenotes, I asked my friend Rebecca Spaven, a professional baker, to consider where the domestic sourdough boom fits into a global pandemic. You can find Rebecca on Instagram @bunhead_ Music: Blue Dot Sessions - Coronea

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 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.

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 and Instagram and subscribe to the Lecker tinyletter

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. 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 Sessions - Pedalrider Blue Dot Sessions - Charcoal Line

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. 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 Mandalay from Amazon or of course from your own preferred online or IRL bookseller (I like Hive). Music: Blue Dot Sessions - Swapping Tubes

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 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. Subscribe to the Lecker tinyletter Music: Blue Dot Sessions - A Simple Blue; Filing Away Hosted and produced by Lucy Dearlove

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 and can also be found/contacted via her website everythingbut.me Lecker is on instagram @leckerpodcast. Sign up to the newsletter tinyletter.com/lecker Music:  Blue Dot Sessions - Chromium Blush

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 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 Lecker instagram takeover under the hashtag #leckeriso Transcription for this episode here. Music: Blue Dot Sessions - Smooth Stone

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 Follow Lecker on Instagram @leckerpodcast

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.asausagehastwo.com/ Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MRx-VnU-DJmt9rCZMRVOgb1fn38RprcLJC6peNIrQnw/edit?usp=sharing Music: Blue Dot Sessions - Lemon and Melon Blue Dot Sessions - Sunday Lights Blue Dot Sessions - One Needle Blue Dot Sessions - Felt Lining

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 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 identified by the food they eat alone. I spoke to more people while working on this project but didn't have space for all the stories I collected - I'm hoping to continue it in some way though. If anyone listening has a story about eating alone that they'd love to share then please do get in touch! Normal Lecker service will be resumed with a brand new episode next week. With thanks to Diarmuid, Mary, Daniel, Tereza and all of the HearSay Festival team, an

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 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 identified by the food they eat alone. I spoke to more people while working on this project but didn't have space for all the stories I collected - I'm hoping to continue it in some way though. If anyone listening has a story about eating alone that they'd love to share then please do get in touch! Normal Lecker service will be resumed with a brand new episode next week. With thanks to Diarmuid, Mary, Daniel, Tereza and all of the HearSay Festival team, an

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 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 identified by the food they eat alone. I spoke to more people while working on this project but didn't have space for all the stories I collected - I'm hoping to continue it in some way though. If anyone listening has a story about eating alone that they'd love to share then please do get in touch! Normal Lecker service will be resumed with a brand new episode next week. With thanks to Diarmuid, Mary, Daniel, Tereza and all of the HearSay Festival team, an

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 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 identified by the food they eat alone. I spoke to more people while working on this project but didn't have space for all the stories I collected - I'm hoping to continue it in some way though. If anyone listening has a story about eating alone that they'd love to share then please do get in touch! Normal Lecker service will be resumed with a brand new episode next week. With thanks to Diarmuid, Mary, Daniel, Tereza and all of the HearSay Festival team, an