They are salty, umami, delicious and fascinating. Join us for a journey into everyone's favourite bivalve - the oyster.

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3: Soup

Do you eat it or do you drink it? Sadly Caoimhe and Robin can’t answer that question. But, they can discuss soup’s long relationship with art and capitalism.

Links and Show Notes:

Andy Warhol - Campbell’s Soup Cans

Daniel Sidorick- Condensed Capitalism

Nicolas Appert

Monsieur Boulanger

The Food People

Rutgar Bregman - Utopia For Realists

Jean-François Revel

2: Bread

What really is bread? Caoimhe and Robin try to find out by talking through the history, symbolism, industrialism and sensuality of the seemingly simple sourdough.

Links and Show Notes:

Toussaint-Samat - A History of Food

Seamus Blackley

Richard Wrangham - Catching Fire

Michael Pollan - Cooked

Chorley-Wood Process

Zoe Williams - Nigella Article

John Freeman

Berné Brown

Sandor Katz

Bunny Crumpacker

John Muir

Caoimhe and Robin take a swim in the caffeinated, boozy and contentious liquid that is Buckfast. 

Links and Show Notes:

Claudia Veneroni

'Let Glasgow Flourish'

Jon Robert

Heather McCartney

Buckfast Babe

Getting Buzzed off Buckfast: MUNCHIES Guide to Scotland

Joe Shaldon