Hoovering

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’s guest is the brilliant food stylist, Ella Tarn. She’s a food stylist so always behind the scenes and in front of the scenes making food look at beautiful as we all already know it tastes. I got to ask her all sorts of insider questions and I couldn’t have loved it more. And she made us a beautiful lunch. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Tickets to see Hoovering LIVE in 20194th MAY - MACHYNLLETH Festival - Guests: Kiri Prichard-Maclean, Jess Hope-Jones and someone, probably with just one name, being announced soon26th MAY - WELLS Comedy Festival - Guests are incredible and being announced super soon9th JUNE - UNDERBELLY Festival Southbank - Guests are Sara Pascoe, T

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’s episode was recorded LIVE at Newcastle’s amazing MAPS Festival but by the wonderful team at Chalk - from the Gosforth Civic Theatre. My guests were actor Charlie Hardwick who you no doubt know off of Emmerdale, comedians Seymour Mace and Hal Branson and local food rising star Katie Cullen, co-creator of the UK’s first brewery and butchers called ‘Block and Bottle’.Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Tickets to see Hoovering LIVE in 2019TOMORROW! 30th MARCH - GLASGOW International Comedy Festival  - Guests: Susan Calman, Jean Johanssen and local food scene superstar Julie Macleod.4th MAY - MACHYNLLETH Festival - Guests: Kiri Prichard-Maclean, Jess Hope-Jones and s

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’s guest is a brilliant comedian whose time I stole while she’s here from New York you’ve probs seen her on Conan, it’s Carmen Lynch. We talk about everything from a detailed bleak projection or ten about the future of eating through to finding our head hair in our bumcracks. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Tickets to see Hoovering LIVE in 2019NEXT WEEK! 30th MARCH - GLASGOW International Comedy Festival  - Guests: Susan Calman, Jean Johanssen and local food scene superstar Julie Macleod.4th MAY - MACHYNLLETH Festival - Guests: Kiri Prichard-Maclean, Jess Hope-Jones and someone, probably with just one name, being announced soon26th MAY - WELLS Comedy Festival&nb

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’s guest is bright, brilliant and fascinating influencer, woke AF personal trainer and host of the adulting podcast, Oenone. We talk very fast (we had so mucho fit in!) about the pros and pitfalls of body positivity, our own flaws in practising what we preach and knowing what the hell to preach anyway or the value of preaching at all. Veganism. Disordered eating. Intolerances. We get RIGHT into it.Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Tickets to see Hoovering LIVE in 201930th MARCH - GLASGOW International Comedy Festival  - Guests: Susan Calman, Jean Johanssen and local food scene superstar Julie Macleod.4th MAY - MACHYNLLETH Festival - Guests: Kiri Prichard-Maclean, Jess Hope-

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’s episode was recorded a few months ago but I’ve sat on it until I could announce some of my guest, Kayleigh Llewellyn’s excellent news that her pilot, ‘In Our Skin’ has been really well received and it’s looking very hopeful they’ll be shooting a full series later this year. Kayleigh’s ace. I get lessons in booze and we taken apart everything from exercise to sandwich spread.Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Tickets to see Hoovering LIVE in 201930th MARCH - GLASGOW International Comedy Festival  - Guests: Susan Calman, Jean Johanssen and local food scene superstar Julie Macleod.4th MAY - MACHYNLLETH Festival - Guests: Kiri Prichard-Maclean, Jess Hope-Jones and someon

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 comes live from the lovely wee Hen & Chickens Theatre in Islington, with eta-guests comedian Lou Sanders, poet and broadcaster Salma El Wardarny and star of Bake Off and the sweetest banker I’ve ever met, Antony Amourdoux (who is fit, well and fine for clarity - read on). Most of our food for this episode was made my the incredible vegan Italian eatery Antonios in East London who, in absolutely tragic news, has passed away - this episode is released in his memory. His hard work and vision and desire to make incredible plant based food that made people go ‘wow’ (and my word: it DID, it was amazing) - will and must not be forgotten. This one’s for you Antonio. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant

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 my guest is my friend, the really excellent comedian Jen Brister. We met at hers in Brighton for the biggest, lushest and most-including-of-brave-foods vegan mega brunch I’ve ever laid my mouth on. We get very serious about kettle chips and a little bit nostalgic about holidays, alone. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Tickets to see Hoovering LIVE in 20193rd MARCH - LONDON. Vaults Festival - Guests: Romesh Ranganathan, Manon Lagreve and Ashley McGuire 30th MARCH - GLASGOW International Comedy Festival  - Guests: Susan Calman, Jean Johanssen and one more being announced soon4th MAY - MACHYNLLETH Festival - Guests: Kiri Prichard-Maclean, Jess Hope-Jones and s

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 my guest is a comedian best known for his fascinating and astronomically successful podcast ‘ComComPod’, or in full - The Comedians Comedy Podcast. It’s Stuart Goldsmith. We wolf up a truly delicious sushi lunch from Itsu whilst talking about everything eaty, upstairs in the brilliant specialist comedy venue, Islington’s Bill Murray Pub. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Tickets to see Hoovering LIVE in 201916th FEB - MAPS Festival, NEWCASTLE - Guests: Charlie Hardwick, Nadine Shah, Anna Hedworth and Seymour Mace3rd MARCH - LONDON. Vaults Festival - Guests: Romesh Ranganathan, Manon Lagreve and Ashley McGuire 30th MARCH - GLASGOW International Comedy Festival &nb

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’s episode comes LIVE from the show we recorded in front of our brilliant audience that no doubt contained some of YOU at the Hen & Chickens Theatre in Islington on 28th January. As you’ll hear, we had an absolute BALL. My guests were ZOE LYONS, YASSMIN ABDEL-MAGIED and MILLY THOMAS. The next London one is on 3rd March - ticket link below. Do come. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Tickets to see Hoovering LIVE in 201916th FEB - MAPS Festival, NEWCASTLE featuring SEYMOUR MACE, ANNA HEDWORTH and more guests tba. 3rd MARCH - LONDON. Vaults Festival featuring ROMESH RANGANATHAN and more tba. 30th MARCH - GLAS

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 my guest is the lovely NED SEDGWICK. He’s a voice you’ll know from podcasts galore, and he’s also something of a hobbiest food historian which is pretty amazing. We talk all things ‘culture’ when it comes to food and he teaches me a secret about the Queen! Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Tickets to see Hoovering LIVE in 201916th FEB - MAPS Festival, NEWCASTLE featuring Seymour Mace, Anna Hedworth and more guests tba. 3rd MARCH - LONDON. Vaults Festival30th MARCH - GLASGOW International Comedy Festival RecipesNed includes the recipe in the show but essentially it’s whole bunch of root vegetables and capsicum peppers in a roasting tin, sunflower or olive oil, sal

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 my guest is one of the high emperors of European podcasting, the amazing comedian and now author, Sofie Hagen. We check I’m not racist, share harrowing fireworks trauma and then get tits deep into fat activism and I learn a bunch about the difference between ‘fat liberation’ and ‘body positivity’ - I’ll be honest, I’m absolutely down with both but Sofie makes some fierce and always very funny points. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Tickets to see Hoovering LIVE in 201916th FEB - MAPS Festival, NEWCASTLE 3rd MARCH - LONDON. Vaults Festival30th MARCH - GLASGOW International Comedy Festival RecipesI made us a beautiful (if I don’t say so myself) aubergine, apple, walnut and

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 my guest is the incredible folk-singer, song-writer and activist the glorious Grace Petrie. We cover veganism, love, putting burgers and jam on a pizza, the Leicester food scene and also just as a bit of a bonus I have an argument with a really sexy fly. ANYTHING IN CAPITALS IN THESE PODCAST NOTES IS A LINK TO A HELPFUL WEBPAGETickets to see Hoovering LIVE in 201916th FEB - MAPS Festival, Newcastle 3rd MARCH - London. Vaults Festival30th MARCH - Glasgow International Comedy Festival RecipesI made the recipe up for what we ate but essentially it was vegan shepherds pie with roasted veg. The pie was a base of brown and green whole lentils cooked very slowly with onions, celery, tiny carrots, herbs and then stock reduced until

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 my guest is one of the hosts of the mighty new smash hit podcast ‘Drunk Women Solving Crime’ it’s Taylor Glenn. Tickets to see Hoovering LIVE in 201916th Feb - MAPS Festival, NEWCASTLE 3rd March - London. VAULTS FESTIVAL30th March - GLASGOW International Comedy Festival RecipesTaylor made us vegan banana fritters with a mango hedgehog! She talks through the recipe in the episode. We really get into it this week, talking the horror of 1980s diet-industry-advertising practice, parenting and feeding and shaaaame, sweet sweet shame. Oh and she makes me the most filthy, delicious mid-afternoon vegan snack ever. This one’s a sizzler. Honourable MentionsIf you don’t already I can highly recommend Taylor’s excellent podcast&nbs

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 my guest is absolute wonder-donkey-super-brilliant comedian Felicity Ward. She cracks me up while I trying crack her teeth up with an accidental date stone and we cover everything from creepy dolls to a failsafe guide on ‘how to share a kitchen’Tickets to see Hoovering LIVE in 201928th Jan - London. Hen & Chickens. ONLY 7 TICKETS LEFT! 16th Feb - MAPS Festival, Newcastle 3rd March - London. Vaults Festival30th March - Glasgow International Comedy Festival RecipesI made us CARROT & APPLE FLAPJACK CAKES from Anna Jones’ ‘A Modern Way to Cook’ and Felicity made us an absolutely belting pot of tea. Honourable MentionsCLICK HERE to get tickets too see Flick live at the Leicester Square TheatreThe short

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 talking to the brilliant, kind, bright comedian and actor HARRIET KEMSLEY. She teaches me an insane amount about anaphylactic shock, not least how to bloody say it as she comes with a raft of harrowing and hilarious experience on that front. RecipesWe ate LOTTIE SHAW’S SERIOUSLY GOOD MINCE PIES (which were defo vegan) I’m afraid I can’t find where we got the vegan brownies from but if you’re ever in Streatham and you pass a bakery with a name that sounds like an estate agents - you’re there! Honourable MentionsHoovering Live TICKETS for 28th January in Islington are HERE and for 3rd March at VAULTS FESTIVAL are HERE Are you a Scottish one? Come and see us at the 

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.Everything from here on, click on anything in capitals for a link to the relevant site. This week my guest is the hilarious firebrand superstar in the making, JAYDE ADAMS. She’s half of the incredible AMUSICAL host-team and award-nominated, smash hit singing joke-slaying superstar. AND it turns out it’s a badass chef to boot. She makes us a totally sumptuous Italian pasta feast at mine and puts the world to rights about sourdough and a million other things. RecipesTHIS BBC GOOD FOOD RECIPE is as close as it gets to what Jayde made for us - oh my word it was beautiful. And the cupcakes came from VANILLA COVE in Ladywell. Honourable MentionsGO AND SEE JAYDE AT THE SOHO THEATRE IN JANUARY! CLICK HERE!&n

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 my guest is the brilliant Zoe Adjonyoh of Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen fame. You’ve probs seen her cooking up a storm on Sunday Kitchen or similar. She makes us one if the most glorious meals I’ve ever had made up of Ghanian staples twisted and reimagined - just total and utter heaven. We are meeting specifically because we are both ambassadors for an amazing charity appeal this winter by AFRIKIDS which is called TIME TO SHINE - we implore you to give generously. Every donation they get until 4th March 2019 - the government have agreed to match because the work they’re doing is so important and so urgent. They’re a brilliant, clever charity with the long term picture in mind. Please click the bits in capitals to link to their site. RecipesIt’s

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 my guest is an actor and broadcaster who cracks me up as much with her bananas ideas as her jokes - it’s dear Maddy Anholt. She tries to sell me a load of crackpot bollocks about ‘skin plumping’ and we’re honest about the horror of acting castings. Oh, and she makes me the most beautiful fig and beet salad, before we smash a couple of vegan cookies all up too.RecipesMaddy made it up! But she talks us through the recipe in the opening minutes of the podcast. Roasted beetroot, walnuts and figs with olive oil, balsamic vinegar and maple syrup - 20 odd mins. Then over green leaves and crumbed feta or goats cheese on top. Honourable MentionsTHIS IS WHERE TO GET TICKETS FOR THE JANUARY LIVE SHOWS!If you want to come and see my new show

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 my guest is professional eater, food writer and competition judge EMMA STURGESS who makes us an extremely sexy and exciting breakfast. We debate the great ‘olive oil burning temperature’ questions and yes of course I regret being so naturally disgusting that at one point I start talking about how much just enjoyed a burp. Haha. RecipesBoth from Nigella, first of all WHITE MISO HUMMUS and her accidentally vegan LEMON TENDERCAKE WITH BLUEBERRY COMPOTEHonourable MentionsTHIS IS WHERE TO GET TICKETS FOR THE JANUARY LIVE SHOWS!Pro v Punter for OLIVE MAGAZINETEBAY and GLOUCESTER services DAN LEPARDS SHORT & SWEET the best baking book I’ve ever used, pre-veganism. I didn’t make a no

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.Click on anything in capitals for a link to whatever I’m on about!This week my guest is the brilliant NELL HUDSON, an actor who is exquisitely open about the acting profession and the helping hand it seems to keep on giving to disordered eating and body-negativity. We cover everything from corset woes to the fishfingersisation of meat. Honourable MentionsHERE is where you can watch Informer on iplayerOur food was from the mighty London chain of vegan and veggie restaurants MILDREDSThat pricey but excellent Greenwich Fishmonger was called PRYKESWe give a shout out to the brilliant podcast GLOBAL PILLAGE THIS is Brit Marling’s essay, the Economics of Consent HERE Dolly Alderton’s Book, Everything I Kno