Podcasts about food and eating to make you happy and hungry

There are so many wonderful podcasts about food and eating that I wanted to create a list where I could keep a track of them.

This list will be a degustation of foodie podcasts with more added over time as I discover them. Please share your favourite foodie podcasts so a place can be set for them.

Firstly some shameless self promotion but I host Refreshments Provided with my mate Carly Findlay and she would kill me if I didn't mention us! 

Our podcast is really summed up by the tagline "you can't be sure where the conversation will go but there will always be Refreshments Provided..."

Rather than talk ourselves up, this is what some of our wonderful listeners have said about us.....the money is in the mail!

  

"Refreshing, authentic & charming.

Just like sitting around the kitchen table with a couple of friends. Refreshments Provided is full of incite & thought provoking topics. I love that Carly & Jason can flit from the hottest shows on Netflix to reworking our thinking on disability. A joy to listen to"  - han_loo itunes 

"A comfortable catch up with good friends. It would be perfect if only I could snack on the delicious food discussed." -Jo_Aus itunes

Ingredipedia a "factual food fight podcast" hosted by Emily Naismith and Ben Birchall. They go head to head in a battle for the most interesting fact, moment in history, childhood memory or experimental recipe featuring the episode's theme ingredient. There is particular attention paid to the American civil war and the musical genius that is the La Porchetta theme song.  

The Dinner Special podcast is hosted by Gabriel Soh chats his "food heroes" - food writers, food bloggers, food photographers about their passion for food.

Olive Magazine Podcast is a glimpse into what is hot and happening in the UK food and drink scene as well as a companion to the magazine. 

The Pass "Australia's newest food podcast" has host Magdalena Roze catch up with well known chefs to discuss their favourite restaurants and food experiences.

This Melbourne based podcast hosted by Jay Clough explores the food culture of the world's most livable city. Scoff is informative, energizing and unapologetically ranty. 

Kimberly Wilson of Great British Bake Off fame hosts Food and Psych podcast chatting with guest about food and the significance or influence it plays on culture. 

With the explosion of "crack" single handedly keeping the production of the Salada alive Chat 10 Looks 3 cements it's identity as Australia's most influential food podcast. Leigh Sales and Annabel Crabb pepper their chats about politics, Helen Garner and the Americans with discussions of baking and a lust for Ottolenghi. 

More and more podcasts will be added over time 

Kids love balloons and blood orange and almond biscuits

A few months ago (remember I told you how behind I am) I had the pleasure of being on Chris Holland's podcast Kids Love Balloons.

Chris is a huge Eurovision fan and was the standby jury member for Australia in 2015. He has also had Julia Zemiro and Nina (Carbon 2011) on the podcast so you can imagine just how excited I was to be amongst that level of Eurovision royalty. (I keep wondering who cancelled??)

The focus of the podcast is a simple question "what makes you happy?" and the conversation goes from there. 

Chris has a great way of just letting you talk/ramble that all the talking points you'd thought of in the car just go out the window. 

The second part of the podcast has each guest discusing three songs that make them happy and to Chris' disappointment I didn't add any Eurovision! Madness I know!

The ever growing playlist of joy is a total joy and will have you going "oh yes I love that song" more than once as guests adds their songs. 

My contributions were Italian pop, 80's girl power and the perfect inspiration for any dance audition! 

The day we recorded this interview was also the first day my mate Carly Findlay and I recorded the first episode of Refreshments Provided so it was great to see how Chris worked.

In the episode I did give Chris the scoop that there was going to be a Chow Down to Junior Eurovision and I was hoping to be in Malta, well sometimes life just gets in the way. The good news is I may have started Chow Down to Eurovision 2017....243 countries what am I thinking?

Please check out Kids Love Balloons, my favourite episodes are Julia Zemiro and Nina (obviously), as well as Lelia Gurruwiwi and Osamah Sami. The latest episode with Joan Korblith gave a great insight into the workings of radio in the USA in the 70's.

Being the obsessed baker I am I made some biscuits to take to the recording, you should never go anywhere empty handed. 

Blood orange and almond biscuits (makes about 40)

Ingredients

• 2 blood oranges
• 200g unsalted butter
• 200g caster sugar
• 75g slivered almonds lightly toasted and chopped 
• 450g self raising flour
• 2 tbsp milk
• 1 cup icing sugar

Method

• Zest the 2 oranges
• Cream butter, sugar and zest together
• Add almonds, flour and milk
• Mix together
• Turn onto the bench and knead lightly for a minute till it comes together smoothly
• Shape into a square log
• Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes
• Preheat oven to 200°C
• Slice into 1cm thick slices and place on a lined baking tray
• Bake for 12 minutes (10 if you like a softer biscuit)
• Allow to cool on a wire rack
• Make icing by beating icing sugar with a knob of butter and the juice of 1 blood orange (a tbsp at a time)
• Pipe into whatever designs make you happy!

I had to add a final clip that is just pure joy Manic by Michael Sembello, I'm sure it will make you happy!

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