Lecker
An award-winning podcast documenting cooking, eating and domestic life. Often recorded in kitchens.
lecker (German): delicious {adj} [food], tasty {adj}, mouth-watering {adj}
Produced and hosted by Lucy Dearlove
Part of Heritage Radio Network
Logo design by Holly Gorne
lecker (German): delicious {adj} [food], tasty {adj}, mouth-watering {adj}
Produced and hosted by Lucy Dearlove
Part of Heritage Radio Network
Logo design by Holly Gorne
- Update frequency
- every 22 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 98
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Digesting the Internet with Ruby Tandoh
On this month's Lecker Book Club – a regular interview series with authors writing in or adjacent to food culture – All Consuming by Ruby Tandoh.
Ruby’s new book, All Consuming, is really a natural …
Ruby’s new book, All Consuming, is really a natural …
01:06:10 |
Wed 10 Sep 2025
S9 Ep6: A Bigger Table (Kitchens Revisited)
This month Lecker is re-releasing some older episodes: here’s Kitchens, a six part series from 2021 about the most important room in the home.
How can the practice of eating together secure a sust…
How can the practice of eating together secure a sust…
00:43:43 |
Wed 27 Aug 2025
S9 Ep4: Flat Pack (Kitchens Revisited)
This month Lecker is re-releasing some older episodes: here’s Kitchens, a six part series from 2021 about the most important room in the home.
Prefabs – built to help counter the post war housing …
Prefabs – built to help counter the post war housing …
00:42:38 |
Mon 25 Aug 2025
S9 Ep5: The Hearth of the Home (Kitchens Revisited)
This month Lecker is re-releasing some older episodes: here’s Kitchens, a six part series from 2021 about the most important room in the home.
Does it matter what fuels our fire in the kitchen? Ja…
Does it matter what fuels our fire in the kitchen? Ja…
00:42:09 |
Mon 25 Aug 2025
S9 Ep3: The Unsociable Kitchen (Kitchens Revisited)
This month Lecker is re-releasing some older episodes: here’s Kitchens, a six part series from 2021 about the most important room in the home.
Why are so many of our kitchens so unsociable? Lucy mee…
Why are so many of our kitchens so unsociable? Lucy mee…
00:47:10 |
Wed 20 Aug 2025
S9 Ep2: Meal Machine (Kitchens Revisited)
This month Lecker is re-releasing some older episodes: here’s Kitchens, a six part series from 2021 about the most important room in the home.
Kitchens are inextricably linked with the woman of th…
Kitchens are inextricably linked with the woman of th…
00:44:05 |
Mon 18 Aug 2025
S9 Ep1: Trophy Cabinets (Kitchens Revisited)
This month Lecker is re-releasing some older episodes: here’s Kitchens, a six part series from 2021 about the most important room in the home.
Aspirational kitchens are an integral part of our foo…
Aspirational kitchens are an integral part of our foo…
00:45:21 |
Fri 15 Aug 2025
Shahnaz Ahsan's British-Bangladeshi Kitchen
On this month's Lecker Book Club, a regular interview series with authors writing in or adjacent to food culture, The Jackfruit Chronicles by Shahnaz Ahsan.
The Jackfruit Chronicles is a recipe book…
The Jackfruit Chronicles is a recipe book…
00:48:06 |
Fri 18 Jul 2025
A Personal History of the Orange with Katie Goh
On this month's Lecker Book Club, a regular interview series with authors writing in or adjacent to food culture, Katie Goh's Foreign Fruit.
Foreign Fruit is a memoir which explores Katie’s experien…
Foreign Fruit is a memoir which explores Katie’s experien…
00:49:47 |
Fri 13 Jun 2025
Turtle Soup as Political Awakening with Heather Parry
On Book Club this month: Heather Parry's Carrion Crow, a novel about a woman in the attic which encompasses class consciousness, turtle soup and Mrs Beeton.
You can find a transcript for this episod…
You can find a transcript for this episod…
00:56:32 |
Fri 09 May 2025
Gastro-Spirituality with Jenny Lau
On Book Club this month: Jenny Lau's An A-Z of Chinese Food, an 'anti-glossary' offering a unique breadth of knowledge and insight into the Chinese diaspora and its food culture.
You can find a tran…
You can find a tran…
00:54:47 |
Fri 11 Apr 2025
The Fundaments of a Crêperie with Penelope Foster
Down a little alley in the centre of Hastings you can find Crêperie by the Sea serving traditional French buckwheat crêpes and galettes. Owner and chef Penelope Foster explains the fundaments of a go…
00:36:37 |
Fri 28 Mar 2025
The Lost Food of Soho
Introducing....The Lost Food of Soho, a new audio piece commissioned and published by Vittles and written, narrated and produced by me (Lucy Dearlove).
This is just a very small taster, you can list…
This is just a very small taster, you can list…
00:03:52 |
Mon 24 Mar 2025
Anna Sulan Masing Blames the Victorians
On Book Club this month: Anna Sulan Masing's Chinese and Any Other Asian, an eye-opening and moving book about East and South East Asian identity in Britain.
You can find a transcript for this episo…
You can find a transcript for this episo…
00:46:52 |
Fri 14 Mar 2025
S8 Ep5: Shaken and Stirred (To Be Delicious #5)
In the final episode of To Be Delicious, Anna considers the future of MSG in the UK. Drinks culture has an inherent playfulness and creativity that makes it the perfect experimentation lab for seekin…
00:41:44 |
Fri 28 Feb 2025
S8 Ep4: Make a Home (To Be Delicious #4)
On umami in diaspora, from chicken salt to bay leaves.
Dr Johnny Drain explains how garum is the root of many of our umami based sauces. Author and cook Kate Young prepares a classic Australian Engl…
Dr Johnny Drain explains how garum is the root of many of our umami based sauces. Author and cook Kate Young prepares a classic Australian Engl…
00:49:52 |
Fri 21 Feb 2025
S8 Ep3: The Frontline of MSG (To Be Delicious #3)
Chinese takeaways are a national institution in the UK, and have also - for many years now - been the frontline where public understanding of MSG comes to a head. Angela Hui, whose book Takeaway has …
00:47:51 |
Fri 14 Feb 2025
S8 Ep2: Evolution Not Fusion (To Be Delicious #2)
AKA infinite ways with a packet of instant noodles.
Georgina Quach, a journalist and archivist, makes her personalised ramen for Anna and Lucy, and considers the importance of comfort in the food s…
Georgina Quach, a journalist and archivist, makes her personalised ramen for Anna and Lucy, and considers the importance of comfort in the food s…
00:46:26 |
Fri 07 Feb 2025
S8 Ep1: The Sweet Spot of Savoury (To Be Delicious #1)
MiMi Aye, a Burmese chef and cookbook author, has used MSG in her cooking for as long as she can remember. While preparing a meal for Anna and Lucy, she reflects on her processes in the kitchen, and…
00:46:23 |
Fri 31 Jan 2025
S8: Introducing...To Be Delicious: A Cultural Context of MSG in the UK
The brand new Lecker mini series launches Friday 31st January.
In To Be Delicious, Dr Anna Sulan Masing explores MSG - and more broadly umami - through the lens of East and South East Asian food her…
In To Be Delicious, Dr Anna Sulan Masing explores MSG - and more broadly umami - through the lens of East and South East Asian food her…
00:02:46 |
Tue 28 Jan 2025
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