Lecker

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 . Shel...

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...

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 follo...

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...

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 Th...

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...

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.asausa...

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 wh...

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 wh...

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 wh...

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 wh...

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...

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 th...

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 b...

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 Dalsto...

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...

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,...

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 c...

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 t...

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 htt...

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 tast...

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 tast...

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. Mu...

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, eati...