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
Healthy Eating in the Middle Ages with Katherine Harvey
Robert Burns, The Globe Inn & the Annandale Distillery with Jane Brown, Teresa Church & David Thomson
Haggis & the First Burns Suppers with Jennie Hood
Special Postbag Edition #6
Shakespearean Food & Drink with Sam Bilton
Welsh Sheep & Cattle with Carwyn Graves
Subversive Feasting in Medieval King & Commoner Tales with Mark Truesdale
Housekeepers & Butlers with Peter Brears
Worcester Porcelain with Paul Crane
Ireland, Ale & the Colonising British with Christina Wade
BONUS EPISODE: Serve it Forth Food History Festival Special
Derbyshire Oatcakes with Mark Dawson
A Rare Early Modern Cheese Manuscript with Alex Bamji
Bread & Bakers with David Wright
Bronze Age Food & Foodways with Chris Wakefield & Rachel Ballantyne
A Regional Food Tour with Jenny Linford
Black & White Pudding with Matthew Cockin & Grant Harper
Special Postbag Edition #5
Alexis Soyer with Lindsay Middleton
Making Medieval Ale at Home with Alison Kay
A Tudor Christmas with Brigitte Webster
The Philosophy of Puddings with Neil Buttery, Peter Gilchrist & Lindsay Middleton
An Irish Food Story with Jp McMahon
Turkey with Tom Copas
The English Table with Jill Norman
A History of Baking with Sam Bilton & Neil Buttery
Crisps with Natalie Whittle
Cooking 'English Food' with Nicola Aldren, Simone Blagg & Anthea Craig
Jane Grigson with Sophie Grigson
50 Years of 'English Food' by Jane Grigson with Sam Bilton, Annie Gray, Ivan Day & Jill Norman
Special Postbag Edition #4
Historical Cookery with Jay Reifel
Ormskirk Gingerbread with Anouska Lewis
The History of Food Waste & Preservation with Eleanor Barnett
The Scottish Salt Industry with Joanna Hambly, Aaron Allen & Ed Bethune
Stuffed with Pen Vogler
The Leeds Symposium on Food History & Traditions with Ivan Day
BONUS EPISODE: 'A is for Apple' with Sam Bilton, Neil Buttery & Alessandra Pino
Medieval Meals & Manners with Danièle Cybulskie
Spices with Ian Anderson
The Philosophy of Chocolate with Sam Bilton
Apples & Orchards with Joanna Crosby
Christmas Special 2023: Mince Pies
BONUS EPISODE: 18th Century Female Cookery Writers with the Delicious Legacy Podcast
Special Postbag Edition #3
English Food, a People's History with Diane Purkiss
The School Meals Service with Heather Ellis
Early Television Cookbooks & Tie-ins with Kevin Geddes
18th Century Tavern Cooking with Marc Meltonville (& Richard Briggs)
Tudor Cooking & Cuisine with Brigitte Webster
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