Food Trippin': Recent Episodes
Anastasia Miari
Food Trippin’ is a travel and food podcast that takes you out into the world with food journalist Anastasia Miari to discover lesser known regions of our planet, through food.
Celebrating the ingenuity of convenience cooking in Tennessee, Anastasia and Iska head out to explore the fast-food that Nashville has to offer and discover an intensely spiced fried chicken and plenty of ‘American cheese’. In this episode, they cook with Nashville locals Westelle and Darcelle and delve into how the drive through popularised certain fast foods in America.
In this episode Anastasia Miari chows down on America's first candy bar and indulges her sweet tooth in Nashville, Tennessee. Expect cowboy boots, plaid shirts and many a tamed goatee as well as a mighty simple lemon ice box pie recipe cooked up with Nashville native Darcelle, in this episode.
Whilst Zip-wiring and BBQing in Texas, I’m hankering after an invite to Thanksgiving lunch and getting acquainted with the Thanksgiving holiday, its sweet veggie casserole dishes and its unsavoury past. Food writers Bella Karragiannidis and Laurel Evans help me unpick the ultimate American holiday in this episode and I pick up a mighty fine pumpkin mousse pie recipe.
In this episode Anastasia Miari and her friend Iska Lupton get to grips with their tiny Ford Fiesta on the big bad roads of North Carolina. Between driving past gun shops and monster trucks toting Trump flags, they discover the joys of fresh seafood, get into the nitty gritty of grits and rub shoulders with locals like Sharon and Chef Tony Pentecost, learning more about the first colonies, wild horses and how to make blueberry muffin batter pancakes.
A food and travel podcast. Through North Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, journalist Anastasia Miari journeys through the Deep South to discover what the food of the USA has to say about its heritage and its people.
New Orleans, City of Celebration does not disappoint. In this episode, I’m welcomed to the city by a naked lady, learn how to dramatically flambee a banana in the traditional New Orleans style and pop the top button of my jeans at a three course brunch in one of the city’s oldest eateries.