In these fractured times l wanted to continue to look at how stories and food can overcome the distance between people and enhance our shared experiences so earlier this year I spent time exploring storytelling through food writing.
Read MoreHow Food Frames Stories
A collection of wintery and festive tales for the season: Why the Sea is Salt, The Christmas Bear and Twelve Brothers.
Read MoreTales of Frost and Snow
In which we discover that strange food stealing horses don't always have your best intentions at heart, that you should always be kind to cats and that kale has its very own folklore.
Read MoreThe Widow and her Daughters or the Kale Conspiracy
The slightly scary stories in this episode are: Golden Hair, The Lass & her Good Stout Blackthorn Stick and The Tailor in the Church adapted from Sorche nic Leodhas and Ruth Manning Sanders
Read MoreSlightly Scary Story Special
In which I explore a completely different direction, have fun with food symbolism and folklore at this interesting time of year and make a realisation about how I really feel about good food.
Read MoreAn All Hallows Feast – Menus, Symbolism & Folklore
In this episode I interviewed the wonderful Sarah Robinson about the fabulous book she has created with Lucy H Pearce. The Kitchen Witch Companion: Recipes, Rituals & Reflections is the companion to Kitchen Witch: Food, Folklore & fairytale and includes many of the traditional and seasonal recipes referenced in that book.
Read MoreThe Kitchen Witch Companion – An Interview with Sarah Robinson
In which we discover that everything is not always as it seems, that you should take advice from helpful travellers, that bees can be excellent as a home protection system and that the taste of honey can make you cross worlds.
Read MoreThe Beekeeper & the Hare or The Hot Honey Horror
The American South is well known for its traditions and rituals around food and funerals and funerary practices so I interviewed Ashley-Anne Masters, a Presbyterian Pastor from North Carolina and we discussed how food can bring us together in grief just as it does during times of great joy.
Read MoreFood, Funerals & Mourning in the American South – An Interview with Ashley-Anne Masters
I met with Zuza Zak and we talked about her wonderful new book Slavic Kitchen Alchemy: Nourishing Herbal Remedies, Magical Recipes & Folk Wisdom. Zuza is also the author of ‘Polska: New Polish Cooking’, ‘Amber & Rye: A Baltic Food Journey Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania’ and ‘Pierogi: Over 50 Recipes to Create Perfect Polish Dumplings’
Read MoreSlavic Kitchen Alchemy – An Interview with Zuza Zak
This week I’m talking to Icy Sedgwick from Fabulous Folklore about her brand new book Rebel Folklore: Empowering Tales of Spirits, Witches and other Misfits from Anansi to Baba Yaga
Read MoreRebel Folklore – An Interview with Icy Sedgwick
In which we find out that certain tropes aren't always true, that a heart of gold sometimes needs assistance and that brownies in the house are invaluable. We also venture into peat bogs and cheese riots in pursuit of food and folklore.
Read MoreThe Laird with a Heart of Gold or The Bannock Brouhaha