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The British Food History Podcast

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The British Food History Podcast is a arts podcast hosted by Neil Buttery. It has 91 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.

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?This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrp

arts ·en ·91 episodes

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Healthy Eating in the Middle Ages with Katherine Harvey

2

Robert Burns, The Globe Inn & the Annandale Distillery with Jane Brown, Teresa Church & David Thomson

3

Haggis & the First Burns Suppers with Jennie Hood

4

Special Postbag Edition #6

5

Shakespearean Food & Drink with Sam Bilton

6

Welsh Sheep & Cattle with Carwyn Graves

7

Subversive Feasting in Medieval King & Commoner Tales with Mark Truesdale

8

Housekeepers & Butlers with Peter Brears

9

Worcester Porcelain with Paul Crane

10

Ireland, Ale & the Colonising British with Christina Wade

11

BONUS EPISODE: Serve it Forth Food History Festival Special

12

Derbyshire Oatcakes with Mark Dawson

13

A Rare Early Modern Cheese Manuscript with Alex Bamji

14

Bread & Bakers with David Wright

15

Bronze Age Food & Foodways with Chris Wakefield & Rachel Ballantyne

16

A Regional Food Tour with Jenny Linford

17

Black & White Pudding with Matthew Cockin & Grant Harper

18

Special Postbag Edition #5

19

Alexis Soyer with Lindsay Middleton

20

Making Medieval Ale at Home with Alison Kay

21

A Tudor Christmas with Brigitte Webster

22

The Philosophy of Puddings with Neil Buttery, Peter Gilchrist & Lindsay Middleton

23

An Irish Food Story with Jp McMahon

24

Turkey with Tom Copas

25

The English Table with Jill Norman

26

A History of Baking with Sam Bilton & Neil Buttery

27

Crisps with Natalie Whittle

28

Cooking 'English Food' with Nicola Aldren, Simone Blagg & Anthea Craig

29

Jane Grigson with Sophie Grigson

30

50 Years of 'English Food' by Jane Grigson with Sam Bilton, Annie Gray, Ivan Day & Jill Norman

31

Special Postbag Edition #4

32

Historical Cookery with Jay Reifel

33

Ormskirk Gingerbread with Anouska Lewis

34

The History of Food Waste & Preservation with Eleanor Barnett

35

The Scottish Salt Industry with Joanna Hambly, Aaron Allen & Ed Bethune

36

Stuffed with Pen Vogler

37

The Leeds Symposium on Food History & Traditions with Ivan Day

38

BONUS EPISODE: 'A is for Apple' with Sam Bilton, Neil Buttery & Alessandra Pino

39

Medieval Meals & Manners with Danièle Cybulskie

40

Spices with Ian Anderson

41

The Philosophy of Chocolate with Sam Bilton

42

Apples & Orchards with Joanna Crosby

43

Christmas Special 2023: Mince Pies

44

BONUS EPISODE: 18th Century Female Cookery Writers with the Delicious Legacy Podcast

45

Special Postbag Edition #3

46

English Food, a People's History with Diane Purkiss

47

The School Meals Service with Heather Ellis

48

Early Television Cookbooks & Tie-ins with Kevin Geddes

49

18th Century Tavern Cooking with Marc Meltonville (& Richard Briggs)

50

Tudor Cooking & Cuisine with Brigitte Webster

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