5 food and cooking podcasts to whet your appetite hosted by food science writers, comedians and more
- This week’s round-up is all about enhancing food, whether it’s through appreciation, sharpening your technique, widening your knowledge or throwing in a little MSG magic
Perhaps it’s because I am constantly digging around in the podcast charts that I notice these things but I am sure that there are more Asian podcast hosts in the food category than in any other. Somebody needs to do a PhD on why this might be but could the reasons be related to the fact that despite having friends and family of all stripes on all continents, my real eating buddies have always been Asian?
If that feels like tricky ground, my own experience of being a Korean immigrant in Britain was that preparing and sharing the food of our heritage sometimes felt like the only solid connection not just to “back home” but also to each other. Combine that immigrant tenacity for tradition with the already central role of shared meals in Asian culture and maybe I’m not just imagining it. While I’m at it, I might as well throw in our “banchan” mentality. When you have been raised with meals made up of many shared dishes of different textures and flavours, it still feels quite odd to be stranded on just the one plate of meat and two veg.
Recognising the foodie tilt of the readership then, here are five brilliant food podcasts that are still somewhat under the radar here.
1. Home Cooking
