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Ep43 - Break Me Off a Piece of that Kit Kat...Pod
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - April 29, 2023 21:54 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsGimme a break, gimme a break - break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar - it’s the food history and food art of the Kit Kat. My next episode will be followed up with a much deeper look at cacao. This episode is a bit of a departure as it’s the first time I have featured a brand. It was inspired ...
Ep42 - Music, Minerals, Mangia! with Maddalena Ghezzi
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - March 07, 2023 15:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWith this episode I’m going straight to my interview with today’s guest - Maddalena Ghezzi. Maddalena is a musician, singer, composer, artist and improviser. She has been working in the field of jazz, improvised and experimental music since moving to the UK in 2009 and her work draws inspiration...
Ep41 - OxyContin for Breakfast with Kurt Cole Eidsvig
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - November 01, 2022 22:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsI chat with one of my dearest friends, award-winning writer and artist Kurt Cole Eidsvig. Kurt has been featured in The Boston Globe, The Improper Bostonian, NBC, CBS, and ABC and loads more prestigious places. We will talk about his new book OxyContin for Breakfast, his previous book Pop X P...
Ep40 - As Art As Vinegar
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - April 26, 2022 07:13 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsVinegar depictions range from fanciful stories relating to it, appearances in still life paintings to the different stages of its production and enjoyment. Vinegar is a symbol of preservation, of hard work and longevity and being cleansed. It’s found in religious stories, fables, stories of love...
Ep39 - Sour Power of Vinegar Half Hour
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - April 05, 2022 00:19 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsVinegar is a vital addition to popular dishes, condiments and beverages from around the world. It has as many uses outside of the kitchen as it does in it and is a staple ingredient of many natural or home remedies. There are countless health benefits that are associated with it and the varietie...
Ep38 - Mushrooms Depicted in Art - Pt 4 of Mystic, Magic and Mealtime Mushrooms
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - December 27, 2020 11:40 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA listen and a look at how food, history and art intersect. From food origins, food history and food art. How foods have traveled the world, been used by different people and how different artists have depicted them throughout time with an emphasis on women artists, under and mis-represented arti...
Ep37 - Mushrooms - Pt 3 - Mealtimes, Mental Health and Mindfulness with Karmen Perez-Pineda of Cats with a Heart
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - October 08, 2020 11:42 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA listen and a look at how food, history and art intersect. From food origins, food history and food art. How foods have traveled the world, been used by different people and how different artists have depicted them throughout time with an emphasis on women artists, under and mis-represented arti...
Ep36 - Mushrooms - Pt 2 - Fungi Folklore
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - September 25, 2020 00:49 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA listen and a look at how food, history and art intersect. From food origins, food history and food art. How foods have traveled the world, been used by different people and how different artists have depicted them throughout time with an emphasis on women artists, under and mis-represented arti...
Ep35 - Mushrooms - Pt 1 - Shamans and Shrooms
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - September 10, 2020 08:37 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA listen and a look at how food, history and art intersect. From food origins, food history and food art. How foods have traveled the world, been used by different people and how different artists have depicted them throughout time with an emphasis on women artists, under and mis-represented arti...
Ep35 - Mushrooms - Mystic, Magic and Mealtime
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - September 10, 2020 08:37 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA listen and a look at how food, history and art intersect. From food origins, food history and food art. How foods have traveled the world, been used by different people and how different artists have depicted them throughout time with an emphasis on women artists, under and mis-represented arti...
Ep34 - Smy Thoughts - Racism and Racist Imagery in Food and Art
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - June 26, 2020 01:50 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsI am sharing and processing some of my thoughts and experiences of racism as a woman of colour. Covering examples of racist imagery in food history and amazing representation, examples of racist imagery in art and amazing representation in art. Covering racial stereotypes, Ava DuVernay and the ...
Ep33 - Flour Power and Superb Herbs
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - May 25, 2020 09:24 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn a special edition of Smy Goodness Podcast - Quarantine Catch-up we chat with Aimée Furnival of Another Studio, the London design studio specialising in Plant Gifts and Playful Products. Aimée featured in the Smy Goodness Podcast Ep5 Pancakes and Creativity which looked at the food history and...
Ep32 - Pomegranate memories with Freelance Writer and Journalist Sophie Jean-Louis Constantine
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - January 20, 2020 23:31 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA listen and a look at how food, history and art intersect. From food origins, food history and food art. How foods have traveled the world, been used by different people and how different artists have depicted them throughout time with an emphasis on women artists, under and mis-represented arti...
Ep31 - Pomegranate - Superfood, Seeds, Symbolism and Stories
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - November 30, 2019 18:12 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAcross the world and throughout myths, legends and religious texts pomegranates have been symbolic of wealth, fertility and good luck. The pomegranate has been a popular feature and motif in artworks, literature, ceremonies and culinary offerings from all over the world. A modern day superfood y...
Ep30 - Fashion and Food with Em and Ems - Emilio de la Morena and Emmerline Smy
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - September 30, 2019 22:21 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsExploring the historical links between food and fashion plus a chat with fashion designer and artist Emilio de la Morena. Emilio was my very first guest for Episode 1 which was all about quince and now he’s my latest guest for Episode 30! We discuss his latest creative endeavours as a painter; t...
Ep29 - Lobster Tails, Lobster Rolls and Lobster Tales with Lobsterman Greg Weeks
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - May 29, 2019 22:31 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThey are associated with luxury but historically this has not always been the case. They live in all oceans, yet I am partial and prejudiced to those from New England. Today it's the food history and food art of lobster. My guest Greg Weekes shares his insight and stories as a Cape Cod Lobsterma...
Ep28 - Mastic, Mastiha, Mummies and Massage with Aristea Zougri of Althea Massage Therapy and Yoga
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - March 28, 2019 23:42 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsHeat from the body can soften it making it more pliable and chewy. Chewy is a key word around its etymology. It’s a tree sap that is dried in the sun from only one place, the Greek island of Chios. It’s all about mastic, or mastiha in Greek or by it’s poetic name Tears of Chios. I’ll look at its...
Ep27 - Feed A Lady Marmalade - Voulez-vous écouter avec moi ce soir
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - March 05, 2019 11:15 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA listen and a look at how food, history and art intersect. From food origins, food history and food art. How foods have traveled the world, been used by different people and how different artists have depicted them throughout time with an emphasis on women artists, under and mis-represented arti...
Ep27 - Feed A Lady Marmalade - Voulez-vous écouter avec moi ce soir
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - March 05, 2019 11:15 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA listen and a look at how food, history and art intersect. From food origins, food history and food art. How foods have traveled the world, been used by different people and how different artists have depicted them throughout time with an emphasis on women artists, under and mis-represented arti...
Ep26 - Octopus, Polpo, Pulpo, Tako: - Takoyaki - My Delicious Dilemma
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - November 29, 2018 02:52 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings"Marine Style" flask with octopus, Aegean Civilisation of Crete, the Late Minoan Bronze Age from c. 1500-1450 BC Throughout the world and throughout time, people and cultures have both revered and feared this eight-limbed, legendary Cephalopod - the octopus. We’ll look at the mythology and...
Ep25 - Gooseberries and Gooseberry Gumbo at Jimmy's Festival on Jimmy's Farm
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - July 26, 2018 23:35 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsNotes: 0 - 1.00: intros 1.00 - 9.35: Gooseberry history, etymology, pairings, Egton Bridge Gooseberry and world’s biggest gooseberry, banned in the USA, Enclosures Act 9.35 - 14.20 Still life paintings by Dutch artist Adriaen Coorte, landscape painting by British artist Isabel N...
Ep24 - Fiori di Zucca with Orso Tosco
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - June 24, 2018 18:45 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsOrso Tosco, author of Aspettando i Naufraghi This episode it's the zucchini aka the courgette and their stunningly beautiful flowers. As my guest was Orso Tosco, the Italian author who has just published his novel, Aspettando I Naufraghi. For his topic Orso chose fiori di zucca or courgette/...
Ep23 - A Rhubarb of a Pickle of a Jam
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - May 21, 2018 21:33 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThis episode looks at where rhubarb came from and how it traveled the world. I look at the changes from how rhubarb was first used by humans to how it is enjoyed today. We'll learn about the etymology of rhubarb, the need for albarelli drug jars and then there's the utterly i...
Ep22 - Bubbly: Champagne, Prosecco and Cava - 12 Foods of Christmas
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - December 30, 2017 00:11 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAt Christmas-time and New Year we drink more of it than ever and it seems perfectly acceptable to be cracking open bottles of bubbly before noon or anytime you have guests round. It’s also the perfect gift to bring round, a ribbon tied round the iconic bottle. Bubbly is a great aperitif, can fin...
Ep21 - Christmas Chocolates - Twelve Foods of Christmas
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - December 30, 2017 00:06 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThis mini-episode is just a little taster, chocolate will get a FULL ON episode in the future, here we are just focusing on Christmas chocolates such as chocolate coins, chocolate tins and trays. From its roots in South and Central America cacao has created joy and good tidings everywhere it has...
Ep20 - Gin & Sloe Gin - Twelve Foods of Christmas
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - December 29, 2017 19:36 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIt's the mid point between Christmas and New Year…we might benefit from a break from the excesses. We can't go cold-turkey from the excesses of non-stop food and drink so a gin and tonic or a bit of sloe gin is a welcome comfort. The Sloe, or wild Plum, is the fruit of the Blackthorn found in t...
Ep19 - Christmas Chutney - Twelve Foods of Christmas
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - December 24, 2017 16:18 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsHow do you eat your chutney? What is your favourite cheese and chutney combination? Today’s Christmas food is chutney. Since the last 12 Foods of Christmas episode featured cheese, it would seem only fitting that we follow that up with chutney. I have often been asked by Spanish or Italian fri...
Ep18 - Christmas Cheese - Twelve Foods of Christmas
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - December 20, 2017 14:37 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIt’s a perfect symphony of seasonality. Many cheeses that we enjoy at Christmas have been made in the summer and are just coming in to peak maturity around the holidays. What’s your cheese? British classics or continental cheeses? Are you someone who goes for the cheese board rather than a puddi...
Ep17 - Oranges - Twelve Foods of Christmas
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - December 16, 2017 23:33 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn the 5 or 6 weeks prior to Christmas is when clementines, satsumas, manderins and tangerines come into season and join forces to dominate the fruit bowl. Their flavours and essences appear throughout our food, drink and traditions throughout Christmas. Find out about the roots and origins of o...
Ep16 - Mulled Wine - Twelve Foods of Christmas
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art - December 14, 2017 02:30 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIt has lots of the familiar spices we associate with Christmas infused together in warmed wine, spirits, fruit and sugar. Walk in to a party from the cold and serving mulled wine and you’ll know instantly as it saturates your sense of smell and warms you up as it fills your belly. Since pre-hist...
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