Lecker

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 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 food education. Island Social Club is popping up at Curio Cabal in Dalston until the end of 2019 http://islandsocialclub.co.uk/.  Nyamming 3: Ital Grounding with Denai Moore takes place on 4th April 2019 http://islandsocialclub.co.uk/nyamming-3 Marie and her mum Barbara featured on the episode Sunday Lunch of the Guardian podcast series Let's Eat (hosted by Hersha Patel, produced by Lucy Dearlove). The episode was nominated for a 2018 Fortnum & Mason Food & Drink

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 note that as well as discussion around cancer this episode also mentions miscarriage. Produced and hosted by Lucy Dearlove Saima Thompson blogs at curryandcancer.com and you can find her on Twitter and Instagram @curryandcancer. You can listen to Lecker episode 1: Masala Wala with Saima and Nabeela here. Masala Wala Cafe serves delicious home-cooked Pakistani food in Brockley, South East London. Saima's Facebook support group for black, Asian and minority ethnic cancer patients can be found here.  Saima recently appeared on the BBC Sounds podcast You, Me and the Big C on the episode About Cultures. Music:

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 a book about her life in food. Produced and hosted by Lucy Dearlove Featuring Aysen Gerlach https://www.aysengerlach.com/. Find Aysen on instagram @mediabitch and @mediadish Find physical stockists for Food Stuff here and you can also buy online https://aysengerlach.storenvy.com/ Here's a few things featured in the episode: Biscuit recipe from the Cafe Sucre Farine https://thecafesucrefarine.com/ridiculously-easy-buttermilk-biscuits/ Food in Studio Ghibli  https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/01/studio-ghiblis-most-iconic-meals.html Central Park Bagel, Philadelphia (Steak, egg and cheese) https:

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 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 @leckerpodcast

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.

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 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 and celebrate the stories of Caribbean food entrepreneurs especially since mainstream food culture tends to omit them. Location: Smokey Jerky (158 New Cross Road) / Lucy's living room Food: large mixed jerk lamb and pork with rice and peas (Riaz), small jerk lamb with rice and peas (Lucy - I normally get large there and regretted the small!) You can buy Belly Full at https://www.tezetapress.com/ Follow Riaz @riazphillips on Twitter and I

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 deeper, more emotional significance. With thanks to Spark London, where I first saw Joe tell a version of this story http://stories.co.uk/ I played a version of this piece at my Potluck event at the previous Hearsay International Audio Arts Festival in Kilfinane - with thanks to Diarmuid Macintyre, Diarmuid O'Leary and the festival team http://www.hearsayfestival.ie/ #food #sundayroast #cooking #recipes

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 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. Order The Little Library Cookbook https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-little-library-cookbook/kate-young/9781784977672 #food #recipes #cooking #kateyoung #littlelibrarycookbook #books #reading #fiction

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 had to find out...what does she eat? Siân's blog: http://bardseyislandlife.blogspot.co.uk/ #lecker #food #cooking #homecooking #recipes #eating #wales #northwales #bardsey #island

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 Kitchen https://granvillecommunitykitchen.wordpress.com/ #food #lecker #cooking #kitchen #granvillecommunitykitchen #activism #london #kilburn

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-dipa-part-1 Illustration by Ben McDonald Dipa's Taste of Tooting https://tasteoftootingtours.com/ Pooja's Sweets https://pooja-sweets-savouries.myshopify.com/ Bhavin's https://www.allinlondon.co.uk/directory/1168/42975.php Harrington's Pie and Mash http://www.tootingartsclub.co.uk/history-of-harringtons/ Manila Sari Sari, Tooting Market Manger des Iles https://twitter.com/mangerdesiles?lang=en #food #immigration #london #tooting #marke

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. Illustration by Ben McDonald  Dipa's Taste of Tooting Pooja's Sweets Bhavin's Harrington's Pie and Mash Manila Sari Sari, Tooting Market Manger des Iles #food #immigration #london #tooting #markets #lecker

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. Music: Blue Dot Sessions - Lemon and Melon via freemusicarchive.org under Creative Commons licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ twitter.com/leckerpodcast leckerpodcast.tumblr.com #food #cooking

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, eating disorders, eating disorder recovery - you can find a transcript here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E3QiAK7SfmO4vMnb6ueJ5kYGIfL6-qoNGVu16Ju14Fw/edit?usp=sharing ) Eating and Living: Recipes for Recovery - edited by Francesca Baker. Buy here: https://eatinglivingrecovery.wordpress.com/ All the money from sales goes to B-EAT, the national eating disorder charity: https://www.b-eat.co.uk/ Music: Blue Dot Sessions - Grand Fell Blue Dot Sessions -Stillness via freemusicarchive.org under Creative Commons licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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 while they cook. Produced and hosted by Lucy Dearlove. Illustration by Ben McDonald

Rebecca May Johnson is a food writer and cook based in Peckham, South London. She cooks a lunch inspired by River Café's deceptively simple pasta sauce, Claudia Roden and the aisles of Turkish Food Centre, Camberwell and talks breakfast proposals, the mysteries of garlic and cooking as social groundwork. Lecker is a podcast about the life-changing power of a good meal, where guests spill the beans while they cook. Produced and hosted by Lucy Dearlove. Illustration by Ben McDonald

Lecker is a brand new podcast hosted and produced by Lucy Dearlove seeking out personal stories of the life-changing power of food. In Episode 1, the mother and daughter team behind South London Pakistani restaurant Masala Wala open their doors to their kitchen to cook channa masala and talk running a family business, women in the food industry and the curry crisis...

COMING SOON! Episode 1: Masala Wala Here's a little teaser of the first episode, featuring Saima from Masala Wala.