Foodbod Pod Season 1 On Spotify
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Season 1 - Episode Listings
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Season 1 Episode 1: Meet your Hosts
Elaine and her producer and co-host David Treadway discuss what's coming up in the series and what they aim to cover as they meet other food lovers, home chefs and cooks, food producers, and those associated with the food.
S1 E2: Cherie Denham Cooks
In the second Episode, Elaine "Foodbod" Boddy visits Cherie Denham at home in her kitchen to discuss her food influences, hear her Top Tips and get some recommendations for leftovers. Irish Soda Farls bake and a recipe for a delicious vegetarian tart with roast aubergines, basil and caramelised cherry tomatoes. Join us for a taste and sensory overload as Cherie Denham Cooks.
S1 E3: Bertie, The Mill, And Sophie...
Visiting the Matthews Cotswold Flour mill talks to Bertie Matthews about the future of agriculture and all things baking and flour related. Sophie Carey discusses her role and bakes up the most delicious Cheddar & Jalapeño Pretzel Bites. There's Top Tips, advice about leftovers plus a bonus Easter recipe!
S1 E4: The Pizza Edition
Visiting pizza champion Scott Deley. He explains the ideal timetable for creating the perfect dough that stretches and shapes easily for baking at home in a domestic or specialist pizza oven. He also explains how to create a tasty but simple tomato topping sauce. Scott is the author of Scott’s Pizza Project, and an ambassador for Ooni in the UK.
S1 E5: Sophie Rushton-Smith from The Corner Plot
Sophie discusses her approach to food - her journey from marine biologist to largely self-taught cook, with two internships at Yotam Ottolenghi restaurants in London. Sophie prepares Elaine a delicious dish: a tasty loaf of soda bread, made with Matthews Ancient Cotswold Crunch flour, served with mouth-watering butter beans & baked feta in sauce.
S1 E6: Curds & Whey: Cheese!
A visit to White Lake Cheese in Somerset to meet farmer and award-winning artisan cheesemaker, Roger Longman. Roger discusses his journey into cheesemaking and guides us through the process. From the milk and other ingredients to the finished cheeses. White Lake Cheese is one of the UK’s most respected artisanal cheese producers. Food blogger Sally Prosser joins for a cheese and sourdough lunch!
S1 E7: Braiding & Breaking Bread
Meet Anne Iarchy and Karine Vignelles and get a lesson in how to braid challah dough. Anne describes the food she grew up with in Belgium and the various influences from her travels. Karine discusses her inspirations from her French upbringing and how her husband’s heritage influences the ingredients they source/prepare at home.
S1 E8: In The Spice Kitchen
Meeting Shashi and Sanjay Aggarwal (Mamma Spice and Spice Boy respectively) on a flavour packed visit to the Spice Kitchen. The Spice Kitchen has grown into a successful artisanal spice and tea business that ships spices to home cooks around the world. Shashi and Sanjay talk using spices, what goes into famous blends, how to keep spices in top condition and their new globally inspired recipe book.
S1 E9: Summer At The Mill
Bertie Matthews takes Elaine on a guided tour to show her how flour is milled. Sophie Carey takes Elaine through her Danish Butter Cake recipe. We meet Ian Wilkinson, co-founder of FarmEd, which promotes sustainable regenerative agriculture. Bertie also takes time out from the mill to show Elaine the difference between modern and heritage wheat varieties and explains their place in food production.
S1 E10: Butchery & Lemon Curd
Meeting Master Butcher Simon Boddy. The Best Butchers dry ages its own beef and smokes and cures its own bacon in rural Bucks. Prepare a shoulder of pork and discuss what goes into good sausages and beef burgers. We meet Jane Geoghegan from Delicious, and we return to Cherie Denham’s kitchen to learn how she makes lemon curd.
S1 E11: Anyone For Cricket(s)?
Meet the founders of Yum Bug, the start-up company that is on a mission to change our perceptions about eating crickets and other insects. Leo Taylor and Aaron Thomas explain how insects have long been a staple part of people’s diets. Later, Sophie Carey prepares ramen noodles with Elaine. Any one for a cricket and noodle stir fry?
S1 E12: Lush Irish Christmas Part 1
Cherie Denham is joined by Tracey Toner. Cherie has just released her first book - The Irish Bakery. Tracey lives and works from home in County Armagh, where she runs The Lush Larder. They swap stories about growing up in Ireland, the food and traditions, as they prepare some delicious recipes for the festive table.
S1 E13: Lush Irish Christmas Part 2
Continuing with Cherie & Tracey. Cherie, who grew up in Co. Tyrone, has thousands of followers to her Cherie Denham Cooks Instagram. Tracey runs her highly successful artisan jam and chutney business in Co. Armagh. A conversation littered with delightful memories, top tips, food and home cooking suggestions - plus a lot of laughter!
Foodbod Pod Season 2! Elaine Boddy & David Treadway Back To Talk More Food
Find all full-length episodes of Season Two of the Foodbod Pod collected here as they air! Join Elaine Boddy, Cotswold Flour's Sourdough Ambassador, and co-host David Treadway on the second part of their food-based adventure! All episodes of Season 2 will be added here as they come out to make it easy for you to find. Apple links in the first section, with Spotify links also indexed further down the page. Please note that this season there are bonus episodes between the main shows, which is why these episodes aren't sequentially numbered, so you'll need to keep an eye out for these on Elaine's socials and website!
Season 2 - Episode Listings
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S2 E1: The New Season Begins
This time the focus will be on all things sourdough. There’ll also be other breads, gluten free options, pizza dough and all kinds of recipes for home bakers. Plus, in this first episode, Elaine has some important news for readers of her books about sourdough!
S2 E2: It's All About Sourdough
Join Elaine in her home kitchen as she demonstrates how to make and bake sourdough at different stages of the process. Elaine speaks about fermentation and proofing times, how room temperature affects them, and offers advice on how to manage them. Two new recipes exclusively for the podcast using some surprising ingredients – a focaccia with wild garlic and two versions of a fruit loaf!
S2 E5: It’s All About Gluten Free
Last year sourdough baker and food lover Anne Iarchy discovered she was celiac and had to change her diet dramatically. She had to adopt new ways of baking and develop gluten-free versions of her favourite bread from sourdough to challah as well as cakes and cookies. She also had to change the way she prepares foods and organises her kitchen in order to avoid cross-contamination – an issue she is acutely aware of when shopping for ingredients or eating out.
S2 E7: It's All About Vegetables
Elaine demonstrates how to cook the perfect grains without them becoming mushy along with some roasted vegetables in a basil oil. She also prepares her version of Loubia, a Lebanese dish of tomatoes, garlic, green beans and spices. Add to that a Tahini sauce and you have Elaine’s idea of food heaven – delicious dishes that will also appeal to non-vegetarians looking for an accompaniment to a main course.
S2 E9: It's All About Nuts
Elaine meets Stu McDonald, the founder of high-quality peanut butter brand Manilife. Stu joins Elaine in her kitchen to discuss his passion for producing single origin nut butters. Elaine uses peanut butter as a key ingredient in two different sourdough recipes and gets Stu to shape and prepare the dough for baking. Stu also cooks bean and peanut butter chilli. It’s an episode packed with a feast of flavours!
S2 E11: It's All About Pizza
Elaine Boddy welcomes award winning pizzaiolo Scott Deley to her home garden, to get a masterclass in shaping and baking pizza in his wood fired Ooni oven. The pair compare yeasted and sourdough versions of the famous Neapolitan style pizza.
S2 E13: It's All About Baking
Bakery Development Manager at Matthews Cotswold Flour, Sophie Carey joins Elaine in her home kitchen to bake as well as talk about all things baking, preparing two delicious recipes – the French delicacy chouquettes and an upside down salted honey pecan cake!
S2 E14: It's All About Flavour
Sophie Rushton-Smith talks about her inspiration for quick, one-pan meals that are flavourful and delicious. A scientist in her professional life, Sophie's encyclopaedic knowledge of ingredients helps her put them together to create deliciously easy meals that are different every time. Elaine hosts Sophie in her home kitchen to prepare three easy vegetable dishes with an explosion of flavours!
S2 E16: Fall into Autumn
How to manage sourdough starters and doughs in the cooler months. Discussing what to do if a starter is underperforming and how to get the best from it, plus the advantages of using loaf pans. Using up ingredients Elaine finds in her kitchen - including chocolate, za’atar, barberries and olive oil - showing how add-ins can produce exciting and innovative sourdough results!
S2 E18: It's All About Festive Baking
Elaine welcomes Sophie Carey back to her for a festive season finale devoted to a Christmas dessert – a Spiced Plum Baked Alaska Frangipane tart. Sophie takes us through making American shortcrust pastry, frangipane and an amazing Swiss meringue snow topping with toasted peaks! A masterclass in making a stunning festive centre piece.
S1 E11: Anyone For Cricket(s)?
Meet the founders of Yum Bug, the start-up company that is on a mission to change our perceptions about eating crickets and other insects. Leo Taylor and Aaron Thomas explain how insects have long been a staple part of people’s diets. Later, Sophie Carey prepares ramen noodles with Elaine. Any one for a cricket and noodle stir fry?
S1 E12: Lush Irish Christmas Part 1
Cherie Denham is joined by Tracey Toner. Cherie has just released her first book - The Irish Bakery. Tracey lives and works from home in County Armagh, where she runs The Lush Larder. They swap stories about growing up in Ireland, the food and traditions, as they prepare some delicious recipes for the festive table.
S1 E13: Lush Irish Christmas Part 2
Continuing with Cherie & Tracey. Cherie, who grew up in Co. Tyrone, has thousands of followers to her Cherie Denham Cooks Instagram. Tracey runs her highly successful artisan jam and chutney business in Co. Armagh. A conversation littered with delightful memories, top tips, food and home cooking suggestions - plus a lot of laughter!
