The FOODBOD POD

The Foodbod Pod: Episode 6 – Curds and Whey

Elaine “Foodbod” Boddy presents the sixth episode of the Foodbod Pod in which she and David Treadway visit White Lake Cheese to meet farmer and award-winning artisan cheesemaker, Roger Longman.
 
Roger discusses his journey into cheesemaking and guides us through the process from the milk and other ingredients to the finished cheeses and describes the range and variety he produces on his farm in Somerset. Returning from a career in engineering, Roger took over the family farm and built on its origins as a small Cheddar producer to create White Lake Cheese, developing it into one of the UK’s most respected artisanal cheese producers that has gathered an impressive number of prizes at the World Cheese Awards, several Supreme Champion medals at The Bath & West Cheese Awards as well as a number of coveted Great Taste awards.
 
White Lake produces a wide range of hand-made cheeses from soft to hard, including sheep’s cheese, cow’s cheese and goat’s cheese using the milk from Roger’s own herd of over 700 goats. From Little She to Driftwood, Solstice to Rachel Reserva, English Pecorino to Fetish, Roger shows Elaine how the different cheeses are made and matured and describes the processes and treatments required for each kind of cheese and how flavour and rind is developed.
 
Elaine joins Roger and food blogger Sally Prosser for a cheese and sourdough lunch and later gets to meet the goats, finds out more about their diet and behaviour and visits the milking parlour and the nursery where the kids are weened.
 
 
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The Foodbod Pod: Episode 5 - At the Corner Plot

Elaine “Foodbod” Boddy presents the fifth episode of the Foodbod Pod in which she and David Treadway visit the home of food blogger, influencer and social media host, Sophie Rushton Smith.
Sophie discusses her approach to food and her journey from marine biologist to largely self-taught cook which led to not one but two internships at Yotam Ottolenghi restaurants in London. As well as revealing why she’s sometimes known as Doctor Fish and offering her top kitchen tips and ideas for making the most of leftovers, Sophie invites Elaine into her kitchen to prepare a delicious dish featuring one of the unsung heroes of the kitchen – the not so humble butter bean. Along with a tasty loaf of soda bread made with Matthews Cotswold Flour’s renowned Ancient Cotswold Crunch flour, Sophie serves a mouth-watering dish of butter beans with baked feta cheese in an onion, garlic and tomato sauce with a hint of chilli.
As a food influencer, Sophie Rushton Smith’s highly popular The Corner Plot posts on Instagram are complemented by her Tik Tok reels and successful food blog of the same name where she demonstrates her many recipes and shows how to make even the most mundane of everyday ingredients come alive as appetising dishes. Sophie won the coveted Galvin Tarte Tatin Award in 2018 and is a judge for the prestigious annual Great Taste awards; like Elaine she is a member of the Guild of Food Writers and has run an occasional supper club at one of London’s celebrated Brother Marcus restaurants.
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The Foodbod Pod: Episode 4 - The Pizza Edition

Elaine “Foodbod” Boddy presents the fourth episode of the Foodbod Pod in which she and David Treadway visit the home of pizza champion, Scott Deley.
Scott bakes up and shares two great artisan pizzas including a vegetarian option as well as delicious garlic pizza strips and explains the ideal timetable for creating the perfect dough that stretches and shapes easily for baking at home in a domestic or specialist pizza oven. He also explains how to create a tasty but simple tomato topping sauce, how to prepare and use mozzarella cheese and why Marinara and Margherita are the true test of the pizza maker’s skill. Plus Top Tips for the kitchen, how leftovers inspire some of the best ideas and why pizza dough is the perfect blank canvas.
Scott Deley’s first book of recipes, Scott’s Ooni Pizza Project has just been published in which he shares his love of pizza and demonstrates how to achieve next level results for Neapolitan, New York, Chicago and Tonda Romana style pizzas by creating delicious doughs, toppings and sauces using an Ooni oven. He has a large social media following as Scott’s Pizza Project and is an ambassador for Ooni pizza ovens.
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The Foodbod Pod: Episode 3 - At the Mill

Elaine “Foodbod” Body presents the third episode of the Foodbod Pod in which she and David Treadway visit the Matthews Cotswold Flour mill overlooking the beautiful village of Shipton-Under-Wychwood in the heart of the English countryside where the family run business has been trading grain and milling flour for eight generations. Elaine talks to Managing Director Bertie Matthews about the company’s history, the principles that guide the business, the extensive range of flour, the future of agriculture and all things baking and flour related. Sophie Carey, the company’s Bakery Development Manager discusses her role and bakes up the most delicious Cheddar & Jalapeño Pretzel Bites. There's Top Tips, advice about leftovers plus a bonus Easter recipe from Elaine so make sure you listen right to the very end!
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The Foodbod Pod: Episode 2 - Cherie Denham Cooks

In the second Episode, Elaine "Foodbod" Boddy visits Cherie Denham at home in her kitchen to discuss her food influences, hear her Top Tips and get some recommendations for leftovers while Cherie bakes traditional Irish Soda Farls. There's also a recipe for a delicious vegetarian tart with roast aubergines, basil and caramelised cherry tomatoes served with rocket and parmesan shavings. Join us for a taste and sensory overload as Cherie Denham Cooks ...
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The Foodbod Pod

The opening episode of Elaine Boddy's new podcast all about food. Elaine and her producer and co-host David Treadway discuss what's coming up in the series and what they aim to cover as they meet other food lovers, home chefs and cooks, food producers, and those associated with the food.