Hoovering - Episode 184: David Atherton
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 WINNER of Bake Off 2019, author of three books no less and absolute brain box about health AND fellow Catford resident, David Atherton. He made me the loveliest afternoon tea I’ve ever had actually lads. In his dreamy home. Which was walking distance from my home. Christ. I’m living the dream. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Honourable Mentions/ LinksYou must follow this beautiful man ON INSTAGRAMYou can and should pre-order David’s beautiful sounding and looking new book MY FIRST GREEN COOKBOOK FOR YOUNG COOKS, I’m getting Rudy one. It’s out on 16th September. His other books are MY FIRST COOKBOOK BAKE, MAKE AND LEARN TO COOK and the not for kids but for everyone GOOD TO EAT: REAL FOOD TO NOURISH AND SUSTAIN YOUR LIFENow - I’m free from live stuff to plug so suffice to say I’d love you to spend your spare money on this podcast, actually. Go to PATREON to see what 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 much if you’ve become a patron recently and/ or stuck with me since the beginning of this. Also - if you’d wanted to donate something as a one-off you can DO THAT HERE on the Acast Supporter page thing. Things we mentioned that you might be interested in from this podcast include…If you’ve never heard of BAKE OFF which David won, which is a huge feat. This is her. And the former contestant who put me in touch with David, whose also a former Bake off superstar is MICHAEL CHAKRAVERTYI briefly name drop BBC Radio 4’s usually quite brilliant show FOOD CHAINHe talks about having aspirations of being on C4’s GREAT BRITISH POTTERY THROWDOWN and considering the beautiful crockery he gave me I reckon he’d smash itHis Mum used to shop through a food collective called SUMAI toot comedians and former guests HAL BRANSON and JAMES ACASTERI mention C4 bit of fun show SNACKMASTERSAnd we’re both fans of TIM SPECTOR whose books are called THE DIET MYTH and more recently, SPOONFEDThe obsolete chocolate we both miss are FUSE BARS which amazingly it look slike Cadbury only sell in India now! And also the illusive TRIPLE CHOCOLATE TWIX which it turns out he didn’t just dream!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/hoovering. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.