Andi Oliver on being 60 next month. The wisest of wise woman. Click https://apple.co/3AeHPhv to listen to much MUCH more on this week's ep of Cooking the Books
‘Can you make me a nice summery cake for my food writer podcast retreat?’ I ask @philippavinecooking ‘Sure,’ she says, and whips up a Pimms cake in a couple of hours. And, as she delivers it at lunchtime, she says, ‘oh and I thought you could do with this ice bowl I made with flowers from the garden for your evening drinks.’ There is no end to that woman’s talents.
#podcastretreat #summercook #icebowl #icecreation
Lots to think about in this brand new episode of Right2Food, which won @thegfw Investigative Food Work Award last year. Here’s a snippet; Anna Clayton from LESS, North Lancashire’s Sustainable Food Network on how food hubs could be an essential part of levelling up.
#levellingup #foodhubs #cumbria #lancashire #fooddeserts #foodinsecurity #vanishinghighstreet
It may be an ancient British tradition but I can see the blood on their hands.
#themeet #foxhunting #leweshunt
Almost time to clock off for Christmas, but just a little reflection on one of my highlights of the year before I do.
Working with the @food.foundation as its podcast producer means I get to meet the most amazing people campaigning for a better food system.
From the brilliant volunteers at the food banks which changed so many lives over this pandemic to the KIDS who are the lifeblood of the FF campaigns, they are a joy and a complete privilege to work with. But the podcast is also a really brilliant way to understand why we need to fix our broken food system, and how. Click on the link to Right2Food in my linktree and have a scroll. Thank you so much to @thegfw for awarding us its Investigative Food Award this year.
I’ve asked the teenage food ambassadors who present the show to pick their favourite episode and share on social, so I’ve got to do it too. But which one? The series teaming up with the delicious.podcast @deliciousmag feat. Emma Thompson, @marcusrashford @melissa.hemsley @philipjlymbery and @growingcommunities to name just a few? The one in which Scotland shows us how to sort free school meals for everyone while creating a local food economy and fixing soul health? Or the one about amazing @abrahammosswarriorsjfcjk on why Govt funded holiday play schemes are vital in tackling Holiday Hunger? Hmm.
But after a year of Zoom directing and interviews, there could be only one. This one recorded #IRL at Valley Fest where 100 young people got together over a weekend of festival shenanigans and punch the sky campaigning to sort food out. Ok, so they’re not quite there yet, but with people like @devsharma.myp here winning the youth MP seat for Hampshire West this week, it’s only a matter of time.
Click on my linktree to listen to the episode from Valley Fest. If you’re a parent, you’ll cry. If you’re a child, you’ll start campaigning now. If you’re feeling bleak, well you just won’t anymore. It’s a joy. It’s real politics of the pe
Brilliant bit of journalism from @yanwei525 as she captures the splatter moment by @massimobottura @buonissimatorino. That’s how you do it.
#buonissimatorino
Stand off with a stag. There’s a cull going on in our woods, and this lot who cross our meadow twice a day, every day are clearly feeling feisty. I get that the deer have no natural predators and when the herds get too big for enough food to go around, intervention is the most humane thing to do. I don’t think that this lot are the malnourished ones though.
#deerstalker #deercull
It’s Podcast Day! Lock down with award-winining author, Benjamin Myers for the food moments in The Offing, a Homeric tale of Robert, a 16 year old boy who sets out across 1950s Yorkshire to find a gloriously long summer of food, poetry and an unlikely freidnship with an eccentric and artistic older woman. Link@in bio.
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#theoffing #worldbooknight2020 #benjaminmyers #foodinbooks #foodinliterature
Morning walk with the geese fam.
