Hoovering - Episode 108: Meera Sodha
Hoovering with Jessica Fostekew
Jessica Fostekew
4.8 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to HOOVERING, the podcast about eating. Host, Jessica Fostekew (Guilty Feminist, Motherland) has a frank conversation with an interesting person about gobbling; guzzling; nibbling; scoffing; devouring and wolfing all up… or if you will, hoovering.
I’m only bloody hoovering with one of my culinary heroes this week. It’s the absolute superhero food writer Meera Sodha. WAAAAAHHHHHHHH! I FUCKING KNOW. She’s the absolute best, and poetic in how articulately she tells her stories. What a massive treat for everyone involved.
Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage.
Tickets to see Hoovering LIVE in 2019
The next live hoovering is on
Saturday 2nd May at the beautiful MACHYNLLETH FESTIVAL at 7.15pm. Come come come!
Then on 13th May we’re up in Hull at the first and best ever official NORTHERN PODCAST FESTIVAL
Honourable Mentions
If you don’t already follow MEERA SODHA on social media, you must. And if you don’t already won her latest book EAST, get it now, not just for you but for everyone you’ve ever loved.
I would very much love to have you come and see my stand up show HENCH, which now up and off on TOUR all around the UK, IRELAND and MELBOURNE. Come! All my tickets are on sale now and they’re selling out like wildfire.
Outside of that I’ll be doing new material gigs and I’m always sticking new dates on MY WEBSITE so have a check. The Hoovering Live dates go on there too.
THIS IS THE RECIPE for the salted miso brownies that Meera made us.
She mentioned an extraordinary sounding posh Italian restaurant in north London called TRULLO
Turns out we studied at the same time at LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
I rave about the dosas I had in Leicester at HERB KAYAL
She talks about training at DOCK KITCHEN which no longer exists but it redirects to its creators.
Meera taught me about a load of important food people. Bread activist ANDREW WHITLEY; FERGUS HENDERSON;
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| 0:15.2 | Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by on track |
| 0:24.5 | to your destination, not a care in the world as you simply lean back, and before you know it, |
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| 0:44.0 | forward slash plan. |
| 0:49.2 | Welcome to Hoovering, the podcast about eating. |
| 0:56.5 | I'm Jessica Bostigue. |
| 0:58.0 | I love eating as much as anything else in the world, but also it sometimes brings me conflict, |
| 1:04.5 | shame and all sorts of other things that are rubbish. |
| 1:08.1 | It's complicated and I think fascinating. |
| 1:11.5 | This is a conversation with an interesting soul, |
| 1:14.1 | not just about food, |
| 1:15.3 | but about gobbling it up, |
| 1:16.7 | or if you will, hoovery. |
| 1:21.8 | Hello, Smashes. |
| 1:23.4 | How you doing? |
| 1:24.2 | We're getting well into March now. |
| 1:25.8 | It's so nearly spring. |
| 1:27.1 | Yes, please um to celebrate |
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