Lecker

I met chef Marie Mitchell in mid 2017, when I booked her as a guest on another podcast I was producing, in honour of the supper club she was running with her parents, Pop's Kitchen, and was blown awa…

Saima Thompson, née Arshad, was one of my guests on the very first episode of Lecker back in late 2016 when I interviewed her and her mother Nabeela in their restaurant Masala Wala Cafe. 

Last year…

Welcome to a brand new series of Lecker! We're in NYC for this first episode (South Brooklyn to be exact) as I meet Aysen Gerlach, an artist and cheesemonger whose illustrated food memoir Food Stuff …

This episode is a Toast to Thom Eagle, the food writer, author and chef. Thom and Lucy talk vinegar pickles vs lactofermentation, Thom's new book and his top 5 pickles of all time.

Thom's book Firs…

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY, LOVERS AND LISTENERS.

A Valentine's special: Laura Silver prepares a romantic meal in her Peckham kitchen.

Laura is a news reporter for Buzzfeed. You can find her on Twitte…

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 photogra…

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 …

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…

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…

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 f…

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…

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 fol…

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…

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 ta…

Rebecca May Johnson is a food writer and cook based in Peckham, South London. She cooks a lunch inspired by River Café's deceptively simple pasta sauce, Claudia Roden and the aisles of Turkish Food C…

Lecker is a brand new podcast hosted and produced by Lucy Dearlove seeking out personal stories of the life-changing power of food.

In Episode 1, the mother and daughter team behind South London Pa…

COMING SOON! Episode 1: Masala Wala

Here's a little teaser of the first episode, featuring Saima from Masala Wala.