The British Food History Podcast
Welcome to 'The British Food History Podcast': British food in all its (sometimes gory) glory with Dr. Neil Buttery. He'll be looking in depth at all aspects of food with interviews with special guests, recipes, re-enactments, foraging, trying his hand at traditional techniques, and tracking down forgotten recipes and hyper-regional specialities. He'll also be trying to answer the big question: What makes British food, so...British?
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 45 minutes
- Episodes
- 87
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Lent episode 7: Lent Comes to an End
Originally released 4 Apr 2020.
*Best listened to on the sixth and final Sunday of Lent*
In the final episode of the season, we look at how the last Sunday of Lent was marked in the past, focussing on …
Lent episode 6: Social Evolution & Lent
*Best listened to on the fifth Sunday of Lent*
In the penultimate episode of the first season, we look at what goes on in the fifth Sunday of Lent, which was called Carlin Sunday in some parts of Brit…
Lent episode 5: Lent & Health
Originally released 22 Mar 2020.
*Best listened of the fourth Sunday of Lent (Mothering Sunday)*
In the fifth episode of the season we look at Mid-Lent Sunday, traditionally a day where lots of differe…
Lent episode 4: The Natural History of Lent
Originally released 15 Mar 2020.
*Best listened to on the third Sunday of Lent*
In part four, we look at how Lent was dumbed down over the years from extremely strict to almost non-existent. Then Neil …
Lent episode 3: Pagan Lent & Easter
Originally released 8 Mar 2020.
*Best listened to on the second Sunday of Lent*
In this episode we look at Pagan aspects of Lent and Easter that have endured to the modern day and investigate how the C…
Lent episode 2: The History of Lent
Originally released 1 Mar 2020
*Best listened to on the first Sunday of Lent*
This episode explores Ember Week, a nod to the coming of Spring always observed in the first full week of Lent. We see how …
Lent episode 1: Preparing for Lent
Originally released 19 Feb 2020
*Best listened to the Sunday before Lent starts (i.e. Sunday before Pancake Day)
This first episode explores all the things traditionally happen (and are eaten) before t…