Lecker

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

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.