S2E6 B is for Beef Wellington, Brains & Bovril

Welcome to Episode 6 of Season B. The theme is ‘Meat’ and Sam, Neil and Alessandra get beefy with three choice nuggets of fleshy goodness, looking at Beef Wellington, Brains and Bovril. Don’t get the meat sweats!Don’t forget the next episode is the Listeners’ Choice. Please send your suggestions (with a reason why you’ve chosen it) to [email protected]. Your deadline is 21st May!Links & Further ReadingDid Sam win the awards for Best Audio at the Fortnum & Mason Awards?Allie will be taking part in the online conference an ONLINE conference on 23rd and 24th August 2025 marking the 100th anniversary of MR James A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories talking about food and the supernatural: https://romancingthegothic.com/2025/01/06/cfp-for-a-warning-to-the-curious-ghostly-supernatural-and-weird-tales/ Follow Serve it Forth history festival on Instagram @serveitforthfestThe Leeds Symposium of Food History and Traditions facebook pageBeef WellingtonManuale de cuoco e del pasticciere III by Vincenzo Agnoletti (1834) (Italian)Paddington Takes The Test by Michael Bond (1999)Julia Child cooks beef wellington on The French ChefBetty Crocker’s Hostess Cookbook (1967)Irish Traditional Food by Theodora Fitzgibbon (1984)Fashionable food: seven decades of food fads by Sylvia Lovegren, (1995)The French Menu Cookbook by Richard Olney (1970)You can read more about the Waterloo banquets on the Apsley House and Wellington Arch blog here and here.Lines of Wellington trailerRead about how beef wellington was used as a murder weapon in Australia.BrainsEnglish Food (Third Edition) by Jane Grigson (1992The Complete Nose to Tail: A Kind of British Cooking by Fergus Henderson (2012)Jane Grigson’s Brains in Black Butter recipe on Neil Cooks GrigsonGood Food by Ambrose Heath (1932; contains brain and tongue pudding recipe)Neil’s blog post about cooking snipe with recipeBovrilVril: The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1871)Shackleton Bovril advert: http://www.tommyspackfillers.com/gallery/medpopup.php?imageNo=1085How the British empire spells Bovril: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O828155/how-the-british-empire-spells-print-dolman-ernest/My Bones and My Flute by Edgar Mittelholzer (1955)You can follow the A is for Apple Podcast on Instagram and BlueskySam Bilton also hosts the Comfortably Hungry Podcast and is the author of First Catch Your Gingerbread, Fool’s Gold: A History of British Saffron and The Philosophy of Chocolate. You can find her on Instagram and BlueskyDr Neil Buttery also hosts the British Food History Podcast and is the author of A Dark History of Sugar, Before Mrs Beeton: Elizabeth Raffald Britain’s Most Influential Housekeeper as well as Knead to Know: A History of Baking and The Philosophy of Pudding. You can find him on Instagram and BlueskyDr Allie Pino hosts the Fear Feasts Podcast with Vanessa Baca and is the co-author of A Gothic Cookbook. You can find her on Instagram and Bluesky