Lecker cover art

Lecker

Written by: Lucy Dearlove
Listen for free

  • Summary

  • A documentary food podcast about what and how we eat. Produced and hosted by Lucy Dearlove lecker (German): delicious {adj} [food], tasty {adj}, mouth-watering {adj} Logo design by Holly Gorne
    Lucy Dearlove
    Show more Show less
Episodes
  • Against Food as a Benign Good with Lottie Hazell

    Against Food as a Benign Good with Lottie Hazell
    May 3 2024
    Welcome back to the Lecker Book Club. Every month I’ll pick a newly released food related book and talk to the author about the process of writing it. I’ll also be writing about it on Substack and Patreon. Join me there as well!

    This month: Piglet by Lottie Hazell.

    I first came across Lottie’s writing when she contributed to the first Lecker zine I curated and published in 2019: Plum Jam, a piece of short fiction about a funeral, an underset blancmange and a broken tooth. I still remember how the piece unsettled me, placing complicated family relationships alongside difficult or reluctant pleasure derived from feeding others; or being fed by others. Her debut novel, Piglet, came out earlier this year and its writing is deeply rooted in what food can mean to us: physically, emotionally and socially.

    I loved talking to Lottie about Piglet so much! As you’ll hear me tell her in the episode, it was such an interesting experience to encounter such luscious, detailed writing about food in a fictional setting, particularly set alongside scenes of such discomfort. The book made me squirm, in a really intriguing way and I loved how the dishes and tablescapes Piglet makes and consumes dressed the set of her home and work lives.

    Heads up that if you haven’t read the book, we do talk about specific plot points in it so if you’d prefer to be spoiler free, go and read it first! And the book does touch on themes of body image, weight and some implied references to disordered eating, so if those topics are sensitive to you please take care.

    You can find a transcript for this episode at leckerpodcast.com.

    Piglet is out now, published by Doubleday. Find all of the Lecker Book Club reads on my Bookshop.org list.

    Buy a copy of either/both of the Lecker zines on BigCartel. You can also order print-on-demand merch at Teemill.

    Support Lecker by becoming a paid subscriber on Patreon, Apple Podcasts and now on Substack.

    Music is by Blue Dot Sessions.

    I'm speaking at Interesting24 on 15th May at Conway Hall in London! Buy a ticket to come and watch me talk about kitchens.
    Show more Show less
    45 mins
  • Sit Slurp Leave with Tim Anderson

    Sit Slurp Leave with Tim Anderson
    Nov 30 2023
    Welcome back to the Lecker Book Club. Every month I’ll pick a newly released food related book and talk to the author about the process of writing it. I’ll also be writing about it on Substack and Patreon. Join me there as well!

    This month: Ramen Forever by Tim Anderson.

    Ramen has ended up as a cornerstone of Tim Anderson’s life. As he writes in the book, it was originally his love of ramen - as well as Japanese food more broadly - that took him to live in Japan, which steered the course of his future in many ways, including meeting his wife. Avid food TV watchers in the UK may also remember that ramen was at the heart of his Masterchef story; when he won the series in 20211, ramen was his winning main course in the final. He previously ran a ramen restaurant in Brixton, Nanban, which opened in 2015 and closed in 2021. But although he’s got five cookbooks already to his name, he’s never written a book entirely about ramen….until now.

    Ramen Forever is out now, published by Hardie Grant. Find all of the Lecker Book Club reads on my Bookshop.org list.

    Support Lecker by becoming a paid subscriber on Patreon, Apple Podcasts and now on Substack.

    Music is by Blue Dot Sessions.
    Show more Show less
    51 mins
  • The Food of a Proud Island Nation with Clarissa Wei

    The Food of a Proud Island Nation with Clarissa Wei
    Oct 30 2023
    Welcome back to the Lecker Book Club. Every month I’ll pick a newly released food related book and talk to the author about the process of writing it. I’ll also be writing about it on Substack and Patreon. Join me there as well!

    In Made in Taiwan, Taipei based journalist Clarissa Wei beautifully captures the food and spirit of this proud island nation, and brings it to life on the page. The book is stunning - you’ll hear more about the thought and consideration that Clarissa and her team put into how it looks as well as what it says later in this interview -and it examines the current state of Taiwanese food in incredible breadth and depth. For me, someone completely new to the food of the country, it’s a beautiful and rich education.

    It was such a pleasure to meet Clarissa via video chat and talk about this book, which involved an astonishing amount of research and recipe development on the ground. I’m a big fan of her work as a journalist - the podcast series she made with Whetstone Radio Collective, Climate Cuisine, is one of my all time favourite listens - and it was so interesting to hear how she approached this book, the subject of which is something hugely personal to her but one which she wanted to approach journalistically, and write as an act of documentation. We talked about how missing home through food sometimes takes unexpected, shifting forms, her culinary collaborator on the book Ivy Chen, and why it was crucial that Made In Taiwan moved away from its original proposal as a “cosy” cookbook and became something deeply political.


    Made In Taiwan is out now, published by Simon and Schuster. Find all of the Lecker Book Club reads on my Bookshop.org list.

    Support Lecker by becoming a paid subscriber on Patreon, Apple Podcasts and now on Substack.

    Music is by Blue Dot Sessions.
    Show more Show less
    43 mins
Food & Wine Social Sciences Arts & Entertainment History
Show more Show less

What listeners say about Lecker

Average Customer Ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Audible.ca reviews

Amazon Reviews
No reviews are available