The British Food History Podcast
Welcome to 'The British Food History Podcast': British food in all its (sometimes gory) glory with Dr. Neil Buttery. He'll be looking in depth at all aspects of food with interviews with special guests, recipes, re-enactments, foraging, trying his hand at traditional techniques, and tracking down forgotten recipes and hyper-regional specialities. He'll also be trying to answer the big question: What makes British food, so...British?
Latest Episode
Special Postbag Edition #6 (18.11.2025)
Previous Episodes
- Shakespearean Food & Drink with Sam Bilton
- Welsh Sheep & Cattle with Carwyn Graves
- Subversive Feasting in Medieval King & Commoner Tales with Mark Truesdale
- Housekeepers & Butlers with Peter Brears
- Worcester Porcelain with Paul Crane
- Ireland, Ale & the Colonising British with Christina Wade
- BONUS EPISODE: Serve it Forth Food History Festival Special
- Derbyshire Oatcakes with Mark Dawson
- A Rare Early Modern Cheese Manuscript with Alex Bamji
- Bread & Bakers with David Wright
- Bronze Age Food & Foodways with Chris Wakefield & Rachel Ballantyne
- A Regional Food Tour with Jenny Linford
- Black & White Pudding with Matthew Cockin & Grant Harper
- Special Postbag Edition #5
- Alexis Soyer with Lindsay Middleton
- Making Medieval Ale at Home with Alison Kay
- A Tudor Christmas with Brigitte Webster
- The Philosophy of Puddings with Neil Buttery, Peter Gilchrist & Lindsay Middleton
- An Irish Food Story with Jp McMahon
- Turkey with Tom Copas
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