Things get wet and wild in this episode as the team explore fish and seafood. Allie explores the world of caviar, bumps and all. Sam introduces the gang to cockle bread and Neil asks whether there is any real point to cod?

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Sources/Useful Links

Cockles

• North Atlantic Seafood by Alan Davidson (1980)
• First Catch Your Peacock: The Classical Guide to Welsh Food by Bobby Freeman (1996)
• In Search of Wales by H. V. Morton (1944)
• Domestic Life in Wales by S. Minwel Tibbott (2002)
• Welsh Fare by S. Minwel Tibbott
• Cockle gathering at Penclawdd in the 1930s on YouTube
• Remembering the Cockle Women
• Marine Stewardship Council information on cockles

Caviar

• Inga Saffron, Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World’s Most Coveted Delicacy (2002) –https://archive.org/details/caviarstrangehis00saff
• IUCN Red List – Sturgeon (Acipenseridae) species accounts –
• https://www.iucnredlist.org
• World Sturgeon Conservation Society – https://www.wscs.info
• NOAA Fisheries – Sturgeon species overview – https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov
• Adam Olearius, The Voyages and Travels of the Ambassadors (1647) –https://archive.org/details/voyagestravellso00olea
• Jonas Hanway, An Historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea (1753) –https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31214
• John Perry, The State of Russia under the Present Czar (1716) –https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-state-of-russia-und_perry-john_1716
• Cavi-Art (official site) – https://caviart.com/
• Daniel Pauly et al., “Fishing Down Marine Food Webs,” Science (1998) –https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.279.5352.860
• Stanley Tucci eats caviar: https://fb.watch/FA1F4UtvRf/
• What is a Caviar Bump?

Cod

• English Seafood Cookery by Rick Stein (1988)
• Jane Grigson’s Fish Book (1986)
• The River Cottage Fish Book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Nick Fisher (2007)
• French Provincial Cookery by Elizabeth David (1960)

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Sam Bilton also hosts the award winning Comfortably Hungry Podcast and is the author of First Catch Your Gingerbread, Fool’s Gold: A History of British Saffron The Philosophy of Chocolate and Much Ado About Cooking: Delicious Shakesperean Feasts for Every Occasion (written in collaboration with Shakespeare’s Globe). You can find her on Instagram and Bluesky

Dr Neil Buttery also hosts the British Food History Podcast and is the author of A Dark History of Sugar, Before Mrs Beeton: Elizabeth Raffald Britain’s Most Influential Housekeeper as well as Knead to Know: A History of Baking and The Philosophy of Pudding with another book in progress. You can find him on Instagram and Bluesky

Dr Allie Pino produces and hosts the Curious Appetite Podcast and the Fear Feasts Podcast with Vanessa Baca. She is also the co-author of A Gothic Cookbook and is currently working on a new book. You can find her on Instagram and Bluesky