Hoovering - Episode 184: David Atherton
Hoovering with Jessica Fostekew
Jessica Fostekew
4.8 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2021
⏱️ 59 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.
This week I’m hoovering with WINNER of Bake Off 2019, author of three books no less and absolute brain box about health AND fellow Catford resident, David Atherton. He made me the loveliest afternoon tea I’ve ever had actually lads. In his dreamy home. Which was walking distance from my home. Christ. I’m living the dream.
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Honourable Mentions/ Links
You must follow this beautiful man ON INSTAGRAM
You can and should pre-order David’s beautiful sounding and looking new book MY FIRST GREEN COOKBOOK FOR YOUNG COOKS, I’m getting Rudy one. It’s out on 16th September.
His other books are MY FIRST COOKBOOK BAKE, MAKE AND LEARN TO COOK and the not for kids but for everyone GOOD TO EAT: REAL FOOD TO NOURISH AND SUSTAIN YOUR LIFE
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Things we mentioned that you might be interested in from this podcast include…
If you’ve never heard of BAKE OFF which David won, which is a huge feat. This is her.
And the former contestant who put me in touch with David, whose also a former Bake off superstar is MICHAEL CHAKRAVERTY
I briefly name drop BBC Radio 4’s usually quite brilliant show FOOD CHAIN
He talks about having aspirations of being on C4’s GREAT BRITISH POTTERY THROWDOWN and considering the beautiful crockery he gave me I reckon he’d smash it
His Mum used to shop through a food collective called SUMA
I toot comedians and former guests HAL BRANSON and JAMES ACASTER
I mention C4 bit of fun show SNACKMASTERS
And we’re both fans of TIM SPECTOR whose books are called THE DIET MYTH and more recently, SPOONFED
The obsolete chocolate we both miss are FUSE BARS which amazingly it look slike Cadbury only sell in India now! And also the illusive TRIPLE CHOCOLATE TWIX which it turns out he didn’t just dream!
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| 1:15.3 | Music network rate. Welcome to Hoovering, the podcast about eating. I'm Jessica Bostikyu. I love eating as much as |
| 1:21.9 | anything else in the world, but also it sometimes brings me conflict, shame and all sorts of other things that are rubbish. |
| 1:30.2 | It's complicated and I think fascinating. This is a conversation with an interesting soul, |
| 1:36.1 | not just about food, but about gobbling it up or, if you will, hoovering. |
| 1:52.7 | Hello and welcome to one of the most free-flowing, easy, delicious, funny and informed hooverings. |
| 1:58.5 | I feel like I've had in a while, actually. I'm very close to home and I'm talking to fellow Catford resident, an actual winner of Bake Off 2019, the disarmingly |
| 2:04.7 | brainy and beautiful David Atherton. We had a blast. I need to include a correction |
| 2:12.9 | this week. Finder's crispy pancakes come up in this podcast again as being obsolete, but I know, I know, I know, |
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