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 I’m hoovering with lovely, funny, extremely clever sausage off of Taskmaster as well as a hundred other cool things, comedian Phil Wang. And under the urging of former guest, amazing chef Sven-Hanson Britt, Phil and I are eating chocolate on toast. Well. On crumpets. Dinosaur shaped crumpets. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Honourable Mentions/ LinksExcuse me but if you’re not already following PHIL WANG on social media, sort that out. That’s also where you’ll find his rescheduled TOUR DATES. He has a truly glorious filthy podcast called BUDPOD which he does with the excellently funny former hoovering guest PIERRE NOVELLIE. I’m on this great site

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.In this episode I’m talking to Fast Show legend Arabella Weir and we get nips deep into the horror of having a parent who is absolutely horrible to her about eating and her body. It’s still a funny one though, somehow. And it’s chilly now isn’t it so we hoovered soup to get through it. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Honourable Mentions/ LinksYou can GET TICKETS HERE to see Arabella on tour early 2021 with ‘Does my Mum loom big in this?’ And she’s ace on the old TWITTER as well. I’m on this great site called PATREON where I swap your money for ace podcast related stuff like totally exclusive content and guest recipes. It’ll help me keep the podca

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 walloping a really lush broccoli, miso and mango salad fresh out of the new Speedy BOSH book which I made at home then drove round and fed to the authors of the actual book. Brave. Mad? Nope, brave. Henry Firth and Ian Theasby are lovely, chipper, talented chaps. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Honourable Mentions/ LinksFirst things first you’ve gotta get your mits on SPEEDY BOSH. Seconds things second follow the BOSH BOYS on social media. Their recipes go up as videos and it’s all so good. I’m on this great site called PATREON where I swap your money for ace podcast related stuff like totally exclusive content and guest recipes. It’ll help me kee

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 wolfing a vegan and gluten free cornetto (you’re just as surprised as me) with brilliant actor Amanda Bright. We came round to mine and we laughed our tits off while she taught me absolutely loads of stuff I didn’t know actually about the nuances of cultural impact on upbringing when it comes to eating. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Honourable Mentions/ LinksFollow the absolute socks off of Amanda please ON INSTAGRAM and ON TWITTERI’m on this great site called PATREON where I swap your money for ace podcast related stuff like totally exclusive content and guest recipes. It’ll help me keep the podcast not just alive, but also thriving. Thanks so so so

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 the brilliant chef and co-founder of awesome catering company ‘Butch Salads’, Rachel Rumbol. We eat the most delicious salads I’ve ever got my face into ever, which she kindly rustled up for us and talk about everything from the jeopardy of school friendships through to her throwing me a very very dark curve ball about crisps. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Honourable Mentions/ LinksFollow Rachel and find out all about her and her amazing company by following BUTCH SALADS on instagram. My TOUR DATES have been rescheduled and I’d love it if you came. I’m on this great site called PATREON where I swap your money for ace podca

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 Professional Masterchef finalist chef, brilliant funny and also just good, kind, wonderful man, Sven-Hanson Britt. I feed him, a real life chef, an actual fucking RICE CAKE and he, in turn, truer to form, brings me the most delicious chocolate and salt (that he then gifts me) which I have ever tasted in my whole life. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Honourable Mentions/ LinksTo always be uptodate with his latest everything make sure to follow SVEN-HANSON BRITT on Twitter, please. Keep everything peeled for the opening, soon of his OXEYE RESTAURANT and new chocolate studio Cartografie. The beautiful salt he got me is called BLACKTHO

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.Comedian and now author Laura Lexx is my guest for this episode. We’re walloping cheese and fine red wine over zoom and talking about everything from spicy adventures, the thrill of trying new things, routines and post-lockdown-bodies. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Honourable Mentions/ LinksFollow LAURA LEXX please on social media and you’ll see on there where to buy her brand new book, out now, based on some of the fictional complicated love trysts in her Twitter threads. Her book is called KLOPP ACTUALLY (haha) get it now. I’m on this great site called PATREON where I swap your money for ace podcast related stuff like totally exclusive content 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 I’m talking to Rose Stokes, journalist and soon to be author whose currently on a mission to pull apart the myth that you can tell how healthy someone is from how they look. Aspiring to thinness isn’t aspiring to health - for me or her, anyway. We’re at mine, tanking white wine, pringles, some little round Italian tiny mini baby pretzel types things and spicy olives. Wallop. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Honourable Mentions/ LinksFor updates on what she’s up to, what she’s discovered and to her funny mind follow ROSE STOKES on the old Twitter there. And THIS IS THE ARTICLE that made me contact Rose, to beg her to do a hoovering. I’m on this great site ca

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 Hope Virgo, a mental health campaigner who is a recovering anorexic and the founder of the amazing #dumpthescales campaign currently raging alongside the incredibly important #curbthecount - out hoovering was a full on one, as you can imagine, in light of how incredibly dangerous elements of the governments health campaign are, for everyone and especially for people with eating disorders. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Honourable Mentions/ LinksPlease please please follow HOPE VIRGO and support her crazily important campaigns. If you’re effected by anything in that episode or indeed keen to find somewhere to financially support services for people wi

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.In this episode I’m talking to absolutely brilliant comedian, writer and podcaster Evelyn Mok. I can’t believe it took me so long to hoover with Evelyn, I think she’s amazing. We spoke remotely because she’s currently in Sweden and I arrogantly attempted to make Swedish Vanilla and Cardamom buns. It took all day and half were burnt and disgusting. Half though, were secretly amazing. She got hers from a shop, I mean, having used an entire day of my life making four small edible snacks - why the hell wouldn’t you?Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Honourable Mentions/ LinksIf you’re not already you’d be bonkers not to follow EVEYLN MOK on the socials and immediately start listening to her a

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.In this episode I’m talking to my dear mate, fellow comedian and host of the absolutely brilliant ‘Insane in the Menbrain’ podcast and more recently the ‘Insane in the Fem Brain spin off one too’ - it’s lovely man funny man Rich Wilson. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Honourable Mentions/ LinksGet on with it and follow RICH WILSON on Twitter immediately. Then hurry up and subscribe to his beautiful podcast INSANE IN THE FEM BRAIN too. I’m on this great site called PATREON where I swap your money for ace podcast related stuff like totally exclusive content and guest recipes. It’ll help me keep the podcast not just alive, but also thriving. Thanks so so so m

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.In this episode I’m hoovering with Olivier winning playwright and screenwriter Stef Smith. We have chocolate three ways for brunch because why not. And we have them sat next to each other, indoors because Stef also has the much harder job than being an award winning playwright in the sense that she’s also my girlfriend. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Honourable Mentions/ LinksTo find out what Stef’s up to and to see her often very funny self in short hand FOLLOW HER ON TWITTER HERE. You can buy her plays in all the usual places but they’re origin story where they’re all listed beautifully is here at NICK HEARN BOOKS. And last but very much not least her pilot called&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.In this episode I’m talking to a very funny comedian and amazing documentary maker Jamali Maddix. He came round for a hot Indonesian salad and we got into everything from pernickitiness through the literally the least possible moral options when it comes to eating. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Honourable Mentions/ LinksFollow Jamali on Twitter to find out what he’s up to - CLICK HEREThe salad we ate was a recipe from RUKMINI IYER’S amazing book THE GREEN ROASTING TINThe absolutely fit booze-free lager we drank was called LUCKY SAINTI’m on this great site called PATREON where I swap your money for ace podcast related stuff like totally exclusive content and g

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.In this episode I’m talking to charming lunatic, the superstar that is Gyles Brandreth. He was on Countdown ‘a long long long time ago’, the first EVER programme on C4. We met just before Covid when we recorded an episode of QI together and he was and is the loveliest and most fascinating soul. He agreed to hoover with me so I brought some cheese and apple round to his garden whilst his grandchildren had a swimming lesson in his pool. Naturally. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Honourable Mentions/ LinksTHIS SUNDAY 19th, 8pm (UK Time) IS THE HOOVERING LIVE - ‘VIRTUAL’ - Come! Gyles read a poem a day ON HIS TWITTER in a snazzy jumper so I’d get all over that if I were you. 

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 hoovering with brilliant comedian and all round clever sausage Athena Kugblenu. We get deep into everything from sugar addiction to Anthony Joshua’s ‘upsides’ and be warned this episode will almost certainly make you want a cold beer. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Honourable MentionsFollow ATHENA KUGBLENU on Twitter, please. And start listening to her podcast too, it’s called KEEPING ATHENA COMPANYI am the early planning stages of an exciting virtual live show so stay tuned for more on that verrryyyy soon - little hint though, put the evening Sunday 19th July in your diaries - more soon.If you’ve got spare dosh to give me and 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 written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage.Honourable MentionsMy guests were ROSE JOHNSON, DAN COOK, FERN BRADY, RACHEL STUBBINGS, ALEXA MASON, MATT HIGHTON and STEF SMITHAll the recipes eaten were from MEERA SODHA’S ‘EAST’ or NIGEL SLATER’S GREENFEAST ‘Autumn/ Winter’And the pizza place that Fern and I love in Catford is called LA PIZZARIA ITALIANAOH, AndIf you have got a any spare dosh to give a month I’m on this great site called PATREON where I exchange for rewards including exclusive content for your hard earned cash which means I can keep doing and improving the podcast.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out informatio

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 hoovering, remotely (he lives in another county) with incredibly funny man and actor, the amazing Joe Wilkinson. Or as you might actually know him better ‘Bean Bag Joe.’ It’s Friday early evening and we’re both having mystery crisps and beer, over zoom for a change, so we could see as well as hear each other. Which was lovely. WHAT A FUNNY MAN. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Honourable MentionsI’d be stunned if you’re not already following him but if not THIS IS JOE’S TWITTERI am the early planning stages of an exciting virtual live show so stay tuned for more on that. If after giving to them you’ve still got more spare dosh to give a month I’m on this great site ca

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 hoovering with my dear mate, the funny af Rose Johnson. Stand up, actor and wildly brilliant writer you potentially know her from being out of the Birthday Girls. Anyway - it’s my first hoovering back out in the world and face to face! She’s come round my garden. And she’s only baked, beautifully and perfectly I might add - TWO WHOLE LOAVES OF BREAD. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Honourable MentionsFollow ROSE ON TWITTER right now, she’s funny AF. She’s art of the sketch group BIRTHDAY GIRLS who if you click the name in caps there, you’ll be directed to their podcast back catalogue and now is the time to smash your way through the joy that is that because

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 hoovering with beautiful artist, writer and broadcaster Scottee. What a bright, funny and BRILLIANT soul they are. We get into everything from Catholic guilt, expectations of fat people right through to sausages in hot cross buns. Yeah. It’s a LOVELY one. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Honourable MentionsIf you don’t already follow them online Scottee is on Instagram as SCOTTEEISFAT and that’s where you’ll see all the work he has for you to see and love and buy. And if you CLICK HERE you can buy his book, Class, through his website.I’m sometimes doing liquid hoovering LIVES over on INSTAGRAM with former hoovering guests. Make sure you’r

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 podcaster and professional talker about science, comedian and co-founder of @MinoritySTEM Hana Ayoob. I’m eating some brownies very kindly gifted to me through the post from the lovely Simply Cake Company and she’s wolfing a brownie and a cookie that she made as part of her Aid celebrations. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Honourable MentionsFollow the wonderful HANA AYOOB on social meeds and get all over the amazing @MinoritySTEM which she co-founded and the podcast she co-presents WHY AREN’T YOU A DOCTOR YET?My brownies were from the absolutely bloody delicious SIMPLY CAKE COMPANY who were very very kind to send me