Mince Pies for Everyone!
Food with Mark Bittman
Sweetness and Light
4.8 • 981 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Culinary historian and writer Regula Ysewijn chats about the crazy British tradition of boar's head, writing the Downton Abbey Christmas Cookbook, and how Charles Dickens saved Christmas; and former royal chef Carolyn Robb talks about the unfair tradition of "Bad British food" and how Christmas makes up for it, the rewards and challenges of being a royal chef, and how King Charles was ahead of his time.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there. It's Mark Bitman. Welcome to Food and Happy Holidays. We are here |
| 0:09.5 | as always weekly, even during the holidays, and happy to have you here. |
| 0:14.1 | Please feel free to reach out to us at food. |
| 0:16.6 | at markbitment.com is where you can find all things related to us. |
| 0:22.0 | I'd also love it if you subscribe to our newsletter |
| 0:24.3 | the Bitman Project at bitment project.com and of course it'd be great if you subscribe to |
| 0:29.2 | this podcast rated it gave us lots of stars etc again reach out to us at food at mark bitman.com The Famous Five were away on a splendid weekend adventure. |
| 0:52.6 | Do we have to go home today? |
| 0:54.7 | sighed Anne. |
| 0:55.7 | I agree, said Dick. |
| 0:57.2 | Even Timmy looks sad. |
| 0:59.5 | Cheer up everyone. |
| 1:00.8 | Beams Julian, I'd booked weekender tickets. We can return any time on Monday. |
| 1:06.4 | Oh you are clever Julian, said Anne. Save over 50% with the long weekend a ticket from Great Western Railway. |
| 1:13.6 | Adventures start here. |
| 1:15.1 | Selected routes, terms apply, saving in comparison to an anytime return fare. |
| 1:19.2 | We'll get back to that conversation in a minute, but first I want to talk about |
| 1:25.4 | something that lots of people ask me about when it comes to global cuisines. |
| 1:29.1 | There is something magical about eating a cuisine in the place where it originated. |
| 1:34.4 | One of the reasons for that is that the dishes that define a cuisine are built around the |
| 1:38.0 | produce that's native to a place. |
| 1:40.5 | It's why the feta and tomato and a Greek salad tastes so perfect in Athens, |
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