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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 of restaurants, takeaways, shops and factories.

Over lunch Riaz explained how the book came out of posting pictures of his food online and why it's important to document and celebrate the stories of Caribbean food entrepreneurs especially since mainstream food culture tends to omit them.

Location: Smokey Jerky (158 New Cross Road) / Lucy's living room

Food: large mixed jerk lamb and pork with rice and peas (Riaz), small jerk lamb with rice and peas (Lucy - I normally get large there and regretted the small!)

You can buy Belly Full at https://www.tezetapress.com/

Follow Riaz @riazphillips on Twitter and Instagram.

Some food entrepreneurs that Riaz rates:

Sudanese Kitchen http://www.sudanesekitchen.com/

Original Flava http://originalflava.com/

The Groundnut http://www.thegroundnut.co.uk/GROUNDNUT/HOME.html

A few places Riaz likes to eat:

Horizon Foods Roti (Tottenham)

Peppers and Spice (Tottenham, Dalston)

Tottenham Town Bakery (Seven Sisters)

Roti Stop (Stoke Newington)

Rudies (Dalston)

Chaconia (Deptford)

Roti Joupa (Clapham)

Hilltop (Ealing)

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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, more emotional significance.

With thanks to Spark London, where I first saw Joe tell a version of this story http://stories.co.uk/

I played a version of this piece at my Potluck event at the previous Hearsay International Audio Arts Festival in Kilfinane - with thanks to Diarmuid Macintyre, Diarmuid O'Leary and the festival team http://www.hearsayfestival.ie/

#food #sundayroast #cooking #recipes

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 club, we spoke about why food matters in fiction, how food makes up your sense of self and she told me something about Enid Blyton that BLEW MY MIND.

Order The Little Library Cookbook https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-little-library-cookbook/kate-young/9781784977672

#food #recipes #cooking #kateyoung #littlelibrarycookbook #books #reading #fiction

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 to find out...what does she eat?

Siân's blog: http://bardseyislandlife.blogspot.co.uk/

#lecker #food #cooking #homecooking #recipes #eating #wales #northwales #bardsey #island

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 https://granvillecommunitykitchen.wordpress.com/

#food #lecker #cooking #kitchen #granvillecommunitykitchen #activism #london #kilburn

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 tasted before. I joined her for an afternoon, and here's some of the things we ate and talked about.

This is Part 2! Listen to Part 1 first: https://audioboom.com/posts/6070841-06-dipa-part-1

Illustration by Ben McDonald

Dipa's Taste of Tooting https://tasteoftootingtours.com/ Pooja's Sweets https://pooja-sweets-savouries.myshopify.com/ Bhavin's https://www.allinlondon.co.uk/directory/1168/42975.php Harrington's Pie and Mash http://www.tootingartsclub.co.uk/history-of-harringtons/ Manila Sari Sari, Tooting Market Manger des Iles https://twitter.com/mangerdesiles?lang=en

#food #immigration #london #tooting #markets #lecker

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 tasted before. I joined her for an afternoon, and here's some of the things we ate and talked about.
This is Part 1! Listen to this first, then listen to Part 2 here.
Illustration by Ben McDonald
Dipa's Taste of Tooting
Pooja's Sweets
Bhavin's
Harrington's Pie and Mash
Manila Sari Sari, Tooting Market
Manger des Iles
#food #immigration #london #tooting #markets #lecker

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.

Music:

Blue Dot Sessions - Lemon and Melon

via freemusicarchive.org under Creative Commons licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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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, eating disorders, eating disorder recovery - you can find a transcript here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E3QiAK7SfmO4vMnb6ueJ5kYGIfL6-qoNGVu16Ju14Fw/edit?usp=sharing )

Eating and Living: Recipes for Recovery - edited by Francesca Baker. Buy here: https://eatinglivingrecovery.wordpress.com/ All the money from sales goes to B-EAT, the national eating disorder charity: https://www.b-eat.co.uk/

Music: Blue Dot Sessions - Grand Fell Blue Dot Sessions -Stillness via freemusicarchive.org under Creative Commons licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Matthew & Bohwa have just started The Little Korean, a Korean streetfood business based on Teesside. In their kitchen in Norton, they make traditional mandu (dumplings) to Bohwa's mum's recipe and talk kimchi fridges, the importance of colour in Korean dishes and food as a cure for homesickness.

Lecker is a podcast about the life-changing power of a good meal, where guests spill the beans while they cook. Produced and hosted by Lucy Dearlove.

Illustration by Ben McDonald