Today’s theme is PEOPLE! Allie, Neil and Sam bring some guests with them to this episode (metaphorically speaking). One is renowned for her flamboyancy; another is an avid champion of fruit and veg and the last has a very large bone to pick with one of history’s most renowned cookbook authors. But can you guess who they are?

(Well of course you can because their names are in the title, but indulge us by playing along!)

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Sources/Useful Links

Fanny Cradock

• Fear of Fanny - BBC 2006
• Keep Calm and Fanny On! By Kevin Geddes
• British Food History Podcast Episode
• Fanny Cradock with Kevin Geddes - The British Food History Podcast
• Gwen Troake and Fanny Cradock (1976)
• Fanny Cradock Cooks for Christmas (1975) | BBC

Ann Cook

• Professed Cookery by Ann Cook
• A Cook’s Perspective byClarissa F. Dillon & Deborah J. Peterson
• The Art of Cookery Made Plain & Easy by Hannah Glasse
• Book review of A. Cook’s Perspective by Neil on British Food: a History
• Neil’s disastrous attempt at cooking Hannah Glasse’s Christmas Pie on Neil Cooks Grigson
• Before Mrs Beeton: Elizabeth Raffald, England’s Most Influential Housekeeper by Neil Buttery
• Ivan Day’s 22-stone Yorkshire Christmas Pye

Giacomo Castelvetro

• The Fruit, Herbs & Vegetables of Italy by Giacomo Castelvetro (1614)
• Profitable insructions [sic] for the manuring, sowing, and planting of kitchin gardens Very profitable for the common wealth and greatly for the helpe and comfort of poore people. Gathered by Richard Gardiner of Shrewsberie. (1603)

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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