FOOD AND COOKING

Off Menu: Each week, comedians James Acaster and Ed Gamble ask a special guest for their favourite ever starter, main, side dish, desert and drink to be enjoyed in a mystical dream restaurant. Their answers range from mouth-watering fine dining through to straight-up infuriating. The premise is admittedly simple, but it acts as a platform for layers of in-jokes and references, and adds up to an appetising podcast. Guests include Ed Sheeran, Jaime Oliver and Martin Freeman, among many others.

River Cafe 4: For more than 30 years The River Cafe in London, has been the home-from-home of artists, architects, designers, actors, collectors, writers, activists, and politicians. On River Cafe Table 4, Rogers sits down with her customers—who have become friends—to talk about food memories. Guests include Paul McCartney, Victoria Beckham, Michael Caine and Glenn Close, to name a few.

Comfort Eating (The Guardian): Famous people (actors, writers, broadcasters…) discuss their past through the medium of their favourite comfort food with Guardian restaurant critic Grace Dent.

Honey and Co-The Food Talks: The hosts invite the people we most admire from the food world to come over and chat. Cooks, waiters, writers, drinkers, thinkers: we have a glass of wine, something to eat and they tell us the story of making a life in food. The conversations are then released as a podcast, a good thing to listen to while you’re cooking your dinner.

Farmerama Radio: Co-hosts Abby Rose and Jo Barratt have been investigating what agriculture in the UK and beyond looks like – and what it could be – in this award-winning podcast, covering everything from vegan milk makers to the people who have fed us during the pandemic.

GastroPod: A dive into the science and history of food. What exactly is pizza? How did chicken tikka masala become a quintessential British dish? And how was the humble bagel catapulted from culinary obscurity to breakfast ubiquity? Every other week, Gastropod co-hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley explore a different topic relating to food and dig into the science and history behind it. It features interviews with chefs, scientists and experts from all over the world.

Recipe Club: the recipes under discussion are, by and large, sourced the way most of us decide what to cook for dinner: by Googling. The hosts, chef David Chang and magazine editor Chris Ying, invite guest chefs to pick a recipe of their choosing on the theme of the day, which is usually something standard.

Point of Origin: Point of Origin is about the world of food, worldwide. Each week we travel to different countries exploring culture through food, examining its past and present, and what it teaches us about who we are and how we came to be. Join Whetstone Magazine co-founder host Stephen Satterfield as he connects with those most immersed in defining and preserving global foodways. Along the way we’re drinking natural wine in Australia, sipping tea — Taiwanese Oolong and Sri Lankan Ceylon — and eating frejon, a Nigerian staple with Brazilian origins.