Drink is the theme for this episode! Sam explores the (reputedly) perfect beverage to drink while giving birth. Neil chats to Tom and Lydia from Artistraw who make natural cider and perry. And Allie reveals there is a whole lot more to a cappuccino than a frothy top.

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This is the penultimate episode before our Listener’s Choice finale so don’t forget to send us your suggestions for the culinary ‘C’s that we’ve overlooked and tell us why we should cover them!

Sources/Useful Links

Early modern stuffed carrots video (from around 29 mins 10 secs)

Sam’s cameline sauce post on Substack

Caudle

• Forme of Cury (1390) also don’t forget to check out Jennie Hood’s Substack, Medieval Food with Jennie
• Giving Birth in Eighteenth Century England by Sarah Fox (2022)
• Mrs Caudle’s Curtain Lectures by Douglas Jerrold (1866)
• A New System of Domestic Cookery by Maria Rundell (1806)
• Liquid Nourishment: Potable Foods and Stimulating Drinks edited by C. Anne Wilson (1993)

Cider

• Artistraw website
• Follow Artistraw on Instagram @artistrawcider
• Why is it that some pubs won’t serve ‘snakebite’?
• Cider Planet by Claude Jolicoeur (2022)

Cappuccino

• Purity and Danger by Mary Douglas (1966)
• “Deciphering a Meal” by Mary Douglas, in Implicit Meanings (1975)
• Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste by Pierre Bourdieu (1979)
• “Toward a Psychosociology of Contemporary Food Consumption” by Roland Barthes, in Food and Culture: A Reader edited by Carole Counihan and Penny Van Esterik
• The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities and Meaning of Table Manners by Margaret Visser (1991)
• Food Is Culture by Massimo Montanari (2006)
• Italian Identity in the Kitchen, or Food and the Nation by Massimo Montanari (2013)
• Coffee: A Global History by Jonathan Morris (2018)
• Espresso Coffee: The Science of Quality edited by Andrea Illy and Rinantonio Viani (2005)

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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 Shakespearean 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