Lecker
Lucy Dearlove
A documentary food podcast about what and how we eat. Produced and hosted by Lucy Dearlove lecker (German): delicious {adj} [food], tasty {adj}, mouth-watering {adj} Logo design by Holly Gorne
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08/23/21 • 43 min
Kitchens are inextricably linked with the woman of the house. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given that the fitted kitchen was literally designed as a workspace to fit around a woman’s body. But what does this mean for women - and men - now? How are traditional gender roles built up and broken down by the kitchen itself? Michael Etheridge reflects on the distribution of domestic labour in his own home, and food writer Gemma Croffie talks about the narrow definition of accepted womanhood when it comes to domestic work.
A full transcript for this episode is available on the Lecker website.
The title Meal Machine comes from the companion guide to the 2011 MoMA exhibition Counter Space: Design + The Modern Kitchen: “Meal machine, experimental laboratory, status symbol, domestic prison, or the creative and spiritual heart of the home?”
Lecker is written and produced by Lucy Dearlove.
Thanks to my contributors on this episode: Michael Etheridge and Gemma Croffie.
You can read Gemma’s piece Kitchens on the Path, which inspired this episode, in the print zine released alongside this audio series. Buy a copy now at leckerpodcast.com/kitchens.
Original music was composed for the series by Jeremy Warmsley, with additional music also by Jeremy, and by Blue Dot Sessions.
Research and production assistance from Nadia Mehdi.
Cover collage by Stephanie Hartman.
If you’ve enjoyed what you heard, please leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, and tell a friend!
And if you enjoy listening to Lecker in general, and have enjoyed this series so far, please consider becoming a patron of the podcast at patreon.com/leckerpodcast
A full transcript for this episode is available on the Lecker website.
The title Meal Machine comes from the companion guide to the 2011 MoMA exhibition Counter Space: Design + The Modern Kitchen: “Meal machine, experimental laboratory, status symbol, domestic prison, or the creative and spiritual heart of the home?”
Lecker is written and produced by Lucy Dearlove.
Thanks to my contributors on this episode: Michael Etheridge and Gemma Croffie.
You can read Gemma’s piece Kitchens on the Path, which inspired this episode, in the print zine released alongside this audio series. Buy a copy now at leckerpodcast.com/kitchens.
Original music was composed for the series by Jeremy Warmsley, with additional music also by Jeremy, and by Blue Dot Sessions.
Research and production assistance from Nadia Mehdi.
Cover collage by Stephanie Hartman.
If you’ve enjoyed what you heard, please leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, and tell a friend!
And if you enjoy listening to Lecker in general, and have enjoyed this series so far, please consider becoming a patron of the podcast at patreon.com/leckerpodcast
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04/23/19 • 39 min
London born and Wiesbaden based, food writer Christie Dietz is an authority on and enthusiastic consumer of German food. She prepares two Wiesbaden regional specialities: Frankfurter grüne Soße and Handkäse mit Musik and talks about the notion of home, the misalignment of regional German food and the murky history of the country's vegetable royalty.
Christie writes about food at https://www.asausagehastwo.com/
Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MRx-VnU-DJmt9rCZMRVOgb1fn38RprcLJC6peNIrQnw/edit?usp=sharing
Music:
Blue Dot Sessions - Lemon and Melon
Blue Dot Sessions - Sunday Lights
Blue Dot Sessions - One Needle
Blue Dot Sessions - Felt Lining
Christie writes about food at https://www.asausagehastwo.com/
Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MRx-VnU-DJmt9rCZMRVOgb1fn38RprcLJC6peNIrQnw/edit?usp=sharing
Music:
Blue Dot Sessions - Lemon and Melon
Blue Dot Sessions - Sunday Lights
Blue Dot Sessions - One Needle
Blue Dot Sessions - Felt Lining
Flat Pack (Kitchens #4)
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09/06/21 • 43 min
Prefabs – built to help counter the post war housing shortage - were actually some of the earliest examples of fitted kitchens in the UK, and came with built in fridges at time when this technology was unaffordable to most people. Jennie Thomas reflects on growing up in a post war prefab in Hackney, and Alice Wilson, whose academic work examines tiny houses, reflects on the movement as a reaction to the housing situation in contemporary Britain.
Lecker is written and produced by Lucy Dearlove.
Thanks to the contributors on this episode, Jennie Thomas and Alice Wilson. Find out more about the OpHouse project.
A full transcript is available on the Lecker website.
A full transcript is available on the Lecker website.
Original music was composed for the series by Jeremy Warmsley, with additional music also by Jeremy, and by Blue Dot Sessions
If you’ve enjoyed what you heard on this episode, or generally on Lecker, please consider rating and reviewing the podcast on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you're listening, and telling a friend about it!
And if you’ve really enjoyed listening to this episode, or are a big fan of the podcast in general already, please consider becoming a patron of the podcast at patreon.com/leckerpodcast
08/09/21 • 4 min
Wall-mounted cabinets, continuous work surfaces, oven, hob, sink, fridge. Maybe a table, often not. Could this be describing your kitchen? The fitted kitchen is ubiquitous in British homes. But we all have different lives, tastes, needs; we cook different foods. How did we all end up with the same kitchen?
Rooted in the memories and personal stories embedded in people's kitchens, Kitchens is a six part podcast series combining the history of design and food to understand the current context of how and where we cook. Lucy Dearlove meets contemporary academicians such as design historian Professor Deborah Sugg Ryan and legendary kitchen designer Johnny Grey, along with contributors like disability campaigner Katie Pennick and food writer Ruby Tandoh to explore the past, present and potential future of the British kitchen.
The series starts 16th August.
Original theme music was composed for the series by Jeremy Warmsley.
The collage for the series cover art was designed by Stephanie Hartman.
The series starts 16th August.
Original theme music was composed for the series by Jeremy Warmsley.
The collage for the series cover art was designed by Stephanie Hartman.
08/16/21 • 45 min
Aspirational kitchens are an integral part of our food media, but where did they come from? And what does it mean for those who can never attain a beautiful, cookbook-worthy kitchen? Design historian Professor Deborah Sugg Ryan explores what came before the fitted kitchen, and how the room itself has shape-shifted drastically over the 20th century. And food writer and author Ruby Tandoh considers the aspirational kitchen in food writing.
Episode 1 of Kitchens, a podcast series by Lecker about the most important room in the home.
You can find a full transcript for this episode on the Lecker website.
Lecker is written and produced by Lucy Dearlove.
Episode 1 of Kitchens, a podcast series by Lecker about the most important room in the home.
You can find a full transcript for this episode on the Lecker website.
Lecker is written and produced by Lucy Dearlove.
There’s also a print zine featuring original essays and illustrations about kitchens released alongside this audio series. Buy a copy now at leckerpodcast.com
Original theme music was composed for the series by Jeremy Warmsley, with additional music also by Jeremy, and by Blue Dot Sessions
If you’ve enjoyed what you heard on this episode, or generally on Lecker, please consider rating and reviewing the podcast on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you're listening, and telling a friend about it!
And if you’ve really enjoyed listening to this episode, or are a big fan of the podcast in general already, please consider becoming a patron of the podcast at patreon.com/leckerpodcast
08/23/21 • 44 min
Kitchens are inextricably linked with the woman of the house. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given that the fitted kitchen was literally designed as a workspace to fit around a woman’s body. But what does this mean for women - and men - now? How are traditional gender roles built up and broken down by the kitchen itself? Michael Etheridge reflects on the distribution of domestic labour in his own home, and food writer Gemma Croffie talks about the narrow definition of accepted womanhood when it comes to domestic work.
A full transcript for this episode is available on the Lecker website.
A full transcript for this episode is available on the Lecker website.
The title Meal Machine comes from the companion guide to the 2011 MoMA exhibition Counter Space: Design + The Modern Kitchen: “Meal machine, experimental laboratory, status symbol, domestic prison, or the creative and spiritual heart of the home?”
You can read Gemma’s piece Kitchens on the Path, which inspired this episode, in the print zine released alongside this audio series. Buy a copy now at leckerpodcast.com/kitchens.
Original music was composed for the series by Jeremy Warmsley, with additional music also by Jeremy, and by Blue Dot Sessions.
If you’ve enjoyed what you heard, please leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, and tell a friend!
And if you enjoy listening to Lecker in general, and have enjoyed this series so far, please consider becoming a patron of the podcast at patreon.com/leckerpodcast
08/03/17 • 37 min
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 for one of their famous community film and food nights and talked food waste, the price of plantain and social reform through communal goats.
Illustration by Ben McDonald
Granville Community Kitchen https://granvillecommunitykitchen.wordpress.com/
#food #lecker #cooking #kitchen #granvillecommunitykitchen #activism #london #kilburn
09/13/21 • 43 min
Does it matter what fuels our fire in the kitchen? Javon Bennett explains how his family adapted their cooking when they moved from Jamaica to England, and Carwyn Graves explores open fire cooking and other Welsh kitchen traditions.
A full transcript is available on the Lecker website.
Lecker is written and produced by Lucy Dearlove
A full transcript is available on the Lecker website.
Lecker is written and produced by Lucy Dearlove
And also thanks to Naomi Oppenheim who put me in touch with Javon via the British Library Caribbean Foodways project and also to my friend and previous Lecker guest Sian Stacey for telling me about Carwyn’s work.
Original music was composed for the series by Jeremy Warmsley, with additional music by Blue Dot Sessions
Extractor fan recording by Victoria Ferran
Cover collage by Stephanie Hartman
If you’ve enjoyed what you heard on this episode, or generally on Lecker, please consider rating and reviewing the podcast on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you're listening, and telling a friend about it!
A big thank you go out to my new Patreon patrons: Anna, Naomi, Sonya, Gloria, Sian, Harriet, Jane, Kirsten, Sian and Hannah! And if you’ve really enjoyed listening to this episode, or are a big fan of the podcast in general already, please consider becoming a patron of the podcast at patreon.com/leckerpodcast
09/20/21 • 44 min
How can the practice of eating together secure a sustainable future for our kitchens?
In the final episode of the series, Joanne MacInnes and Betul Piyade from the community centre West London Welcome describe what it's like for refugees and asylum seekers to live indefinitely in hotel rooms without kitchens. And academic and "food crisis responder" Marsha Smith explains why social eating is so important for us as a society, and explains how it's the key to future proofing our eating habits.
Lecker is written and produced by Lucy Dearlove
In the final episode of the series, Joanne MacInnes and Betul Piyade from the community centre West London Welcome describe what it's like for refugees and asylum seekers to live indefinitely in hotel rooms without kitchens. And academic and "food crisis responder" Marsha Smith explains why social eating is so important for us as a society, and explains how it's the key to future proofing our eating habits.
Lecker is written and produced by Lucy Dearlove
Thanks to my contributors on this episode Betul Piyade and Joanne MacInnes at West London Welcome, and Marsha Smith.
West London Welcome is an amazing place. This interview was recorded a few months ago, before the crisis in Afghanistan, and the centre is now working to support newly arrived Afghan refugees, as well as their existing members. You can donate to support their work via LocalGiving here.
The transcript of the episode is here.
Original music was composed for the series by Jeremy Warmsley, with additional music by Blue Dot Sessions
Cover collage by Stephanie Hartman
If you’ve enjoyed what you heard on this episode, or generally on Lecker, please consider rating and reviewing the podcast on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you're listening, and telling a friend about it!
The next thing on the Lecker schedule is a three part series about food and folklore on the Isle of Man, which is being generously funded by Culture Vannin! I’m making that with the brilliant Manx audio producer Katie Callin and it’ll be out before the end of the year. If you liked the episode Bonnag then you’ll love this!
Find Lecker on twitter and instagram.
04/13/20 • 15 min
In these strange times I’ve been thinking about food almost constantly. Unable to go out to eat (or go out much at all), food dominates my waking life even more than normal. Like many people on the internet, I’ve started using the solid blocks of time I have at home to start learning to bake sourdough, and I’ve been thinking a lot about why I’m so drawn to this and why I find it so absorbing.
Via the medium of voicenotes, I asked my friend Rebecca Spaven, a professional baker, to consider where the domestic sourdough boom fits into a global pandemic.
You can find Rebecca on Instagram @bunhead_
Music:
Blue Dot Sessions - Coronea
Via the medium of voicenotes, I asked my friend Rebecca Spaven, a professional baker, to consider where the domestic sourdough boom fits into a global pandemic.
You can find Rebecca on Instagram @bunhead_
Music:
Blue Dot Sessions - Coronea
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FAQ
How many episodes does Lecker have?
Lecker currently has 85 episodes available.
What topics does Lecker cover?
The podcast is about Society & Culture, Documentary, Podcasts, Arts and Food.
What is the most popular episode on Lecker?
The episode title 'S4 Ep2: Meal Machine (Kitchens #2)' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Lecker?
The average episode length on Lecker is 32 minutes.
How often are episodes of Lecker released?
Episodes of Lecker are typically released every 21 days, 17 hours.
When was the first episode of Lecker?
The first episode of Lecker was released on Sep 23, 2016.
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