My mother called me just before Christmas and said when you come down do you know

anywhere you can get pork knuckles? So I went to all my specialist butcher's and called around and I found

some and so mom and I have been cooking pork knuckle, which she got from her

grandmother. It's incredibly old-fashioned.

This is the Sportful. It's not for foodies, it's for eaters. I'm Dan Pashman.

Each week on our show we obsess about food to learn more about people.

This week we're bringing you not one but two episodes of a podcast we really love called

Life and Art from F.T. Weekend, the flagship culture podcast of the Financial Times.

On this show, twice a week, Post Lila, Rapt, brings in the Financial Times esteemed arts and culture

experts to make sense of our time.

Lila talks with F.T's long-time pop culture critics and food reviewers, arts editors,

and historians.

Today we're bringing you two of their food episodes, one about

the idea of gluttony with restaurant critic Tim Hayward and later on a

conversation about how to design a great dinner party with food and drink editor

Harriet Fitch Little.

Okay, here's host Lila Raptopoulos.

This is Life and Art from FT Weekend.

I'm Lila Raptopoulos.

My colleague Tim Hayward writes about food professionally. He's been our

restaurant critic here at the FT for 12 years. Tim also makes food very successfully.

He owns a bakery in Cambridge and he's put out eight books about

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