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).
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The Italian author Livia Franchini reflects on edible themes in her debut novel Shelf Life, and considers the prescriptiveness of Italian cooking.
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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.
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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.
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Music: Blue Dot Sessions - A Simple Blue; Filing Away
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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
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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/
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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