Truly Scrumptious - A Food Festival Podcast

We're back! And we're hungry. Good job we're at a Food Festival! We take another trip to one of the most beautiful countries and we eat. A lot. The Comber Earlies Food Festival in Comber, Northern Ireland once again plays host to the honourable PGI Potato grown around Strangford Loch. Best steamed and served with quantities of butter and a sprinkling of parsley and salt. I was really happy to retu...

We are on the last count down to Thame Food Festival which is at the end of September. A big event with huge infrastructure and complex logistics - and an often challenging final week or two as things change, move around and people book late! Event's are moveable feasts - all your plans t the beginning of the year are often topsy turvy by the festival itself. It keeps us on our toes...ad can often...

In June, Jon and I flew over to Northern Ireland. I had been asked to host the “Meet the Producers’ Stage at the Comber Earlies Potato Festival in Comber which sits on Strangford Loch. It is a beautiful town, in a stunning part of the country and we were treated to a joyful festival of food and lovely people. My fab friend Paula McIntyre (more from her later) who you would have heard on a previous...

Welcome to another of our special summer podcasts! A month or so ago I spoke with the utterly delightful Dr Neil Buttery when his brand new book was launched.  I happened upon Neil (as you do!) when scrolling through instagram and I saw that he had written a book about one of my all time culinary heroines. Now…You might be thinking Mary Berry (yes I love Mary, have worked with Mary and I...

In May, Jon and I were invited by the British Trout Association to spend a day in the sunny Cotswolds learning to fish Trout.  Having never fished a day in my life I thought this was a great opportunity and a lovely way to spend a day. We arrived at Lechlade Trout Fishery, met our other fellow fisher folk, had a coffee and welcome biscuit…. then rod in hand walked towards a huge pond full to...

Oh we have a Bake-tastic episode for you all this week! A tangy, toasty, squishy, warm and spongy whopper of an hour with four amazing women who also happen to have competed on the Great British Bake Off. And one - who WON! And we are happy to say that they are all joining us at our Festivals this year too! This is the last episode in the current series.....but we'll be back at the end of June wit...

Welcome to another squidgy, chewy, light and bouncy episode. And this week we are all over the place! We take a trip to Cornwall for a catch up with the lovely LoveDay Gin Girls, Daisy and Chloe. We’re also chatting with another gorgeous lady there - Deb Porter, our fabulous Festival Photographer! Then we’re up to Gloucestershire to speak with one of our favourite and longest attending produc...

Hello and welcome to another squishy, whopper of a lightly toasted episode. This week I am chatting with my old matey Tristan Welch - not only an incredible chef, thoroughly nice chap but also my culinary boyfriend. Yes, it’s a thing! We go back a few years, when we competed together in New York, on Food Network’s bonkers tv show - Chopped! It was a crazy few days and the best experience - you’ll...

Welcome to another scrumptilicious episode of joyous foodie chat.  This week we are chatting to Sonia Simons from Cook Stars, who’s aim it is to make cooking for children fun, nutritious and quite fabulous. She is bringing this to our Bradford on Avon Food Festival in June. A magical marquee of marvellous cooking! I’ll be introducing you to my boyfriend NO3 - the very gorgeous and brilliant D...

Welcome to another deliciously, delectable episode full of scrumptious sumptuousness! In the week that has International Women’s Day, this podcast gives me the chance to highlight two very clever women in the world of food. They also happen to make two of my favourite products! Sarah Churchill from The Artisan Kitchen who makes the most fabulous preserves, including the best Marmalade in the world...

This week we have a chocker full episode of absolute yumminess! We are heading to Haddenham in Buckinghamshire to meet up with the winner of last year’s Thame Food Festival Bursary - Simon Hartley. We then zoom to Northern Ireland to chat with one of my favourite ladies - the gloriously funny, joyous and top chef, Paula McIntyre. Then we hop back to Bucks to talk to the Queen of Airfryers - Clare...

On this week’s episode I’ll be introducing you to my Dad! Robert Duncan, cartoonist, illustrator and our Festival designer! Then there is the gorgeous Lucie Ellis - one of our favourite chefs who takes to the BIG Cookery Stage every year. We 'did' lunch at The Standard Inn in Porthscatho....and it was stunning! And we meet wonderful Vicki Usher who owns Humble Country - the company behind Tha...

As promised, we have a smorgasbord of delectable deliciousness for you this week. The very bubbly, bright and joyous Suzy Pelta is joining us to chat about cakes, all things sweet and her hosting of our festival stages at Thame. We have another fabulous encounter with the warm, funny and cocktail shaking Andy Clarke. A proper catch up. You’ll love it! But first we zoom over to Sweden to chat with...

The one and only and totally fabulous, Gennaro Contaldo will be joining us at Thame Food Festival this year on Saturday 30th September. Recently we spoke over zoom and his 50 shades of food is quite fabulous! We chat to Rachel Blake who heads up our PR and Marketing at the festivals. Utterly professional and a complete delight to work with - we couldn’t do without her. She’s great fun and an integ...

Oh what a tempting, terrific and tantalising episode we have for you this week. We start off in glorious Greece with the gorgeous Harry Lalousis where we chat Olive Oil and Mustard - and the best you can get! We discover how Kate Clark became Planty Kate, and chat Festival Foodie Festival Force with the truly wonderful Jo Horne. https://www.instagram.com/jo_horne/ https://www.instagram.com/themust...

What a spectacular episode we have for you this week! Janusz Domagala - semi finalist in the latest series of Great British Bake Off regales his time on set and tells us what happened with the mysterious spring roll! We also meet Sarah Wyndham Lewis who is not only a Honey Sommelier, but much more than that - she is an advocate and activist for the bees. And boy, do the bees need her!  But fi...

We’ve got another peachy podcast filled to the brim with talent, wit, and scrumptious food for you this week. Anne, our quite brilliant Home Ec who heads up the Back Stage Kitchen and looks after our chefs and bakers and all their culinary needs.  Becky Excell who has taken the Gluten free AND instagram world by storm and three brothers who distill a very delicious Gin. And then…. an old mate...

We have a wonderful chat with Eddie Scott, 2022's Master Chef Champ at Thame Food Festival where he cooks a scrumptiously delicious seafood dish.  My old matey Jaqui Supple, one of our brilliant festival team - tells us how she wrangles the chefs - yes she is chief chef wrangler - which is less painful than it sounds! Zoe Baldry owns Raphael’s, and is one of our fabulous food producers a...

In this episode, Great British Bake Off’s Steven Carter Bailey flirts with Lotte. A lot We learn how to be the best Stage Compere with Simon Brown, there is plenty of Chopping and Chatting with Alex Hollywood and we find out what the ultimate Christmas Cheese Board is with Carolyn Hopkins.  A positively bountiful episode of utter Scrumptiousness - filled to the brim with decent, fun foodie ch...

Welcome to the Truly Scrumptious Podcast. Where we talk Food Festivals, Festival Food, Foodie Friends and Friends of the Festival. In each episode we will chat to some of our many friends - our celebrity chefs and bakers, food producers, festival team and other people involved in the ever expanding food festival world. We’ll even hear some backstage gossip! Episode 1  We chat Mary Berry with...