The Comfort Feed: Recent Episodes
Juliana Adelman and Catherine Cleary
We started making a podcast about our relationship with food and then the pandemic happened. So we made this. Contact us: feedthecomfort AT gmail DOT com. https://linktr.ee/TheComfortFeedPodcast
In this extra episode we chat to a chef (Seaneen Sullivan) and an environmentalist (Odile Le Bolloch) about reducing food waste every day and especially during the holiday season. And we sneak preview a few items coming in our Christmas blockbuster episode next week.
Catherine interviews strategy consultant and “bon viveur” Jonathan O’Grady and app developer Matt McCann of Access Earth about their love of restaurants and how accessing them could be made easier for everyone.
This episode Juliana interviewed Luke Glazzard, a chef who recently worked for the British Antarctic Survey. To hear what cooking at the South Pole used to be like, we spoke to Seamus Taaffe of the Athy Shackleton Museum. And Catherine looks forward to 'level Christmas.'
Juliana talks to chef Luke Glazzard about what it's like to work as a chef in the extreme environment that is the Antarctic and we hear from Seamus Taafe of Athy's Shackleton Museum about a chef from the 1950's who wrote a cookbook based on his time hunting, skinning and cooking some of the wildlife.
Catherine Cleary spoke to farmer Davi Leon who (with his wife Hazel) runs a CSA in Wicklow (https://wicklow.farm) and to scientist Jim McAdam of Queen's University Belfast who has been studying agroforestry for decades. Find a tree to hug (or just one to lean against) and have a listen. Photo of cows by Jane Shackleton.
Music: 'Pork chops and gravy' performed and recorded by Ross Hannon 'Forest Music', The American Singer; Singing in Three Parts, Book VI, archive.org
This episode Juliana spoke to New Orleans entrepreneur Ericka Lassair about her food business (Diva Dawg Food Truck)and its ups and downs. Claire Cunningham filled us in on Lafcadio Hearn's time in New Orleans.
Music: 'Pork chops and gravy' performed and recorded by Ross Hannon 'New Orleans Bump', Jelly Roll Morton, archive.org Japanese music with unidentified singer, archive.org
Sounds: New Orleans street sounds from user _HAP_ on freesound.org https://freesound.org/people/_HAP_/sounds/401165/
This episode, Catherine Cleary spoke to Precious Matumba who arrived in Ireland from Zimbabwe seeking asylum and spent about a year in Mosney Direct Provision Center.
This episode Juliana interviews historian Hasia Diner of NYU about food and migration. Catherine tastes Aunt Babette's potato latkes.
Music: Pork chops and gravy: performed and recorded by Ross Hannon America, ich lieb' dich: Archie Gottler, Gus Goldstein, King's Orchestra
Hasia Diner Teaser: "Eating was something the English did" by Juliana Adelman and Catherine Cleary
This week Catherine spoke to cookbook author Trish Deseine about her food adventures in France, past and present.
Music: 'Pork Chops and Gravy' performed and produced by Ross Hannon 'C'est si bon', Yves Montand on archive.org https://archive.org/details/78_cest-si-bon_yves-montand-bob-castella-et-ses-rythmes-henri-betti-andr-hornez_gbia0125644b/C'EST+SI+BON+-+YVES+MONTAND+-+Bob+Castella+et+ses+Rythmes.flac 'La vie en rose', Edith Piaf on archive.org https://archive.org/details/78_la-vie-en-rose_edith-piad-guy-luypaerts-louiguy-edith-piaf_gbia0021326a/La+Vie+En+Rose+-+Edith+Piad+-+Guy+Luypaerts-restored.flac
Trish Deseine Teaser: "A huge delicious playground" by Juliana Adelman and Catherine Cleary
Juliana Adelman interviews her mother about a family cookery writer and about how she escaped from a childhood of formal family dinners and Catherine Cleary tastes the matriarch's Indian Pudding.
Music: 'Pork chops and gravy' performed and produced by Ross Hannon. Find him on SoundCloud.
Juliana Adelman and Catherine Cleary discuss the new season. Catherine interviews writer and New Yorker Adam Gopnik about cooking during lockdown, his tumultuous relationship with the 19th C food writer Elizabeth Pannell and the future of restaurants. Catherine cooks and Juliana tastes Adam's 5C flan recipe.
Music 'Pork Chops and Gravy' produced and recorded by Ross Hannon
Season 2 'One of the minority breed of cooking New Yorkers' by Juliana Adelman and Catherine Cleary
This week Catherine chats to Jess Murphy of restaurant Kai in Galway about reopening. We have two pandemic pantry recipes from Ritchie Keane and Brenda Lawlor. Frank O'Shoonahoon demonstrates his prawn whispering talents. Additional material by Jason Flynn. Produced by Juliana Adelman.
Music: 'Pork Chops and Gravy', performed and recorded by Ross Hannon 'Bacon Fat', Andre Williams https://archive.org/details/78_bacon-fat_andre-williams-mr-rhythm-his-new-group-a-williams_gbia0052868a/Bacon+Fat+-+Andre+Williams+(Mr.+Rhythm)+%26+his+New+Group.flac 'A Chocolate Sundae on Saturday Night', Pat Flowers https://archive.org/details/78_a-chocolate-sundae-on-a-saturday-night_pat-flowers-and-his-rhythm-pat-flowers-david_gbia0133611a/A+CHOCOLATE+SUNDAE+ON+A+SATUR+-+Pat+Flowers+and+his+Rhythm.flac
Teaser "Hairy chops, hamster wheels and reopening restaurants" by Juliana Adelman and Catherine Cleary
This week Catherine Cleary talks to writer Aoibheann Sweeney about writing and rhubarb. Wuu Kuang Soh provides a recipe for Chinese tea eggs, perfect for a picnic. And we introduce Frank O'Shoonahoon. Additional material by Jason Flynn. Produced by Juliana Adelman.
Music: 'Pork chops and gravy' played and recorded by Ross Hannon 'Egg Head' by Benny Goodman found here: https://archive.org/details/78_egg-head_benny-goodman-and-his-orchestra-cecil-payne-daniel-mendelsohn_gbia0024839a/Egg+Head+-+Benny+Goodman+And+His+Orchestra.flac
This week we have a double whammy. Catherine Cleary interviewed historian David Murphy about the military origins of tinned and preserved foods. And then she spoke to Linda Gordon of SafeFood about food storage while we are all shopping less often. Sarah McEnroe contributes a fourth-generation recipe for Grandma Dunne's Krispy Cakes and Ruairi O'Connor O'Gorman reports from a field of tomatoes. Produced by Juliana Adelman. Additional content by Jason Flynn.
Music: 'Pork chops and gravy' performed and recorded by Ross Hannon 'Sweet, sweet, sweet' Ray Ventura, found at Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/78_sweet-sweet-sweet_ray-ventura-et-son-orchestre-lucien-jeunesse-j-hesse-p-misrak_gbia0100768a/Sweet%2C+Sweet%2C+Sweet+-+Ray+Ventura+et+son+orchestre.flac
Sound effects: https://freesound.org/people/spanrucker/sounds/272216/ https://freesound.org/people/MicktheMicGuy/sounds/434878/ https://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/507358/
Teaser 'Ancient tins, modern rations and safer leftovers' by Juliana Adelman and Catherine Cleary
This week Catherine Cleary interviews Aisling McBride about her CSA Derrybeg Farm in Celbridge. We hear how she swerved into farming from working in cinemas and what it means to run one acre that supplies 50 local families. Her partner Clare Lee shares a recipe for beetroot ketchup and Ruairi O'Connor O'Gorman makes a return from the Mediterranean. Produced by Juliana Adelman
Music: 'Pork Chops and Gravy' recorded and produced by Ross Hannon 'Ketchup' by David Mumford courtesy of the Free Music Archive https://freemusicarchive.org/music/David_Mumford/Be_Back_Soon_EP
Sound Effects: https://freesound.org/people/CheneWessels_170017/sounds/407602/ https://freesound.org/people/tim.kahn/sounds/28453/ https://freesound.org/people/nextmaking/sounds/86040/ https://freesound.org/people/devy32/sounds/441223/ / https://freesound.org/people/debudding/sounds/44367/
Ep 9 Teaser "A life changing cup of coffee and that vegetable wow factor" by Juliana Adelman and Catherine Cleary
Episode 8 "There's few other people I've met who are so interested in food" by Juliana Adelman and Catherine Cleary
Teaser "Eurovision, picky eaters and the crisis in journalism with the GastroGays" by Juliana Adelman and Catherine Cleary
This week Catherine Cleary interviews writer Bee Wilson about how she got interested in writing about food and how her food life in lockdown is working out. Maria Falina provides a recipe for roasted cauliflower and David Stevens has answers to your questions. Additional material by Jason Flynn. Produced by Juliana Adelman.
Music: 'Pork chops and gravy' performed and recorded by Ross Hannon 'Chocolate dance' from The Nutcracker Suite by Pyotr Tchaikovsky https://archive.org/details/78_title-in-russian_gbia0056897b Loop under David Stevens, https://freesound.org/people/frankum/sounds/384468/
This week Catherine Cleary interviews sailor and boat-builder Jarlath Cunnane about his adventures circumnavigating the Arctic and what you actually bring to eat on a long voyage. Gavan Cleary gives us his mother's recipe for brown bread. David Stephens (aka Jason Flynn) answers more questions and takes a foray into matchmaking. Produced by Juliana Adelman.
Music: 'Pork chops and gravy', performed and recorded by Ross Hannon 'Shortenin' bread', Bob Crosby and his orchestra, available at: https://archive.org/details/78_shortenin-bread_bob-crosby-and-his-orchestra_gbia0033246a/Shortenin'+Bread+-+Bob+Crosby+And+His+Orchestra.flac Loop under David Stephens: https://freesound.org/people/frankum/sounds/384468/
This week Catherine Cleary interviews Joe McNamee, Mariana Verdes gives us a recipe for Moldovan placintas and David Stephens (aka Jason Flynn) answers some tough carb questions. Produced by Juliana Adelman
Music: 'Pork chops and gravy' performed and recorded by Ross Hannon https://archive.org/details/MUSIC-SPACE-EUROPA-MOLDOVA_13820000070_4563000070_2020 'Where has all me flour gone?' performed by Liam Reid https://freesound.org/people/frankum/sounds/384468/
A taste of this week's episode where Catherine Cleary talks to food writer Joe McNamee.
This week Catherine Cleary interviews writer Niamh Boyce about the writing life, food memories and the use of food in her most recent novel, Her Kind. Ruairi (Jason Flynn) visits a barley field and Aoife Bhreathnach of the podcast Censored brings us a 'quarantini' recipe. Produced by Juliana Adelman.
Music: 'Pork chops and gravy' performed and recorded by Ross Hannon 'A pretty girl is like a melody' with Vic Damone found at https://archive.org/details/78_a-pretty-girl-is-like-a-melody_vic-damone-silvertone-orchestra-tutti-camarata-irvin_gbia0082391a/A+Pretty+Girl+Is+Like+a+Melody+-+Vic+Damone.flac
Sound effects from Freesound:
Pint of beer https://freesound.org/people/zembacraftworks/sounds/428334/
Can of beer https://freesound.org/people/ulose2piranha/sounds/436822/
Lighting cigarette https://freesound.org/people/deleted_user_7146007/sounds/383764/
Clapping https://freesound.org/people/CnJClips/sounds/361032/
Walking in grass https://freesound.org/people/Edo333/sounds/388262/
This week Catherine Cleary talks to Eileen Dunne, one half of the beloved Dublin restaurant Dunne and Crescenzi, from Rome. She hears about the rediscovered joys of food in lockdown during the covid 19 pandemic, zoom dinner parties and how she ended up starting an Italian restaurant with her husband Stefano. Our pandemic pantry recipe is a teen-friendly McGuffin and Ruairi O'Connor O'Gorman (aka Jason Flynn) finds himself in a cabbage patch.
Sound effects from Freesound. org Footsteps, Muddy E https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/339325/ Shot and reload https://freesound.org/people/deathnsorrow/sounds/149177/ Dogs https://freesound.org/people/Mrthenoronha/sounds/420451/ Dog call https://freesound.org/people/scottemoil/sounds/188439/ Screen door https://freesound.org/people/conleec/sounds/148629/
Music: 'Pork chops and gravy' performed and recorded by Ross Hannon 'Big Butter and Egg Man', Muggsy Spanier and his Ragtime Band https://archive.org/details/78_big-butter-and-egg-man_muggsy-spanier-and-his-ragtime-band-frien-clare-santly-muggs_gbia0028720b/Big+Butter+and+Egg+Man+-+Muggsy+Spanier+and+his+Ragtime+Band.flac
Episode 3 Teaser "Oh but Eileen I love that dish why did you take it off?" by Juliana Adelman and Catherine Cleary
Chefs all over the world have had to cope with the collapse of the restaurant and hospitality industry. But not many of them pulled down the shutters the day the review of their career landed. We talk to Dublin chef Cúán Greene about a life in food and post-pandemic. Juliana’s Mom gives us her chocolate cake recipe and Despatches from the Field gets down and dairy.
Music: 'Pork chops and gravy', performed and recorded by Ross Hannon 'Cakewalk', https://archive.org/details/Arthur_Pryors_Band-Frozen_Bill
Sounds effects from Freesound Cows: https://freesound.org/people/kilgore54/sounds/353682/ Single moo https://freesound.org/people/Zozzy/sounds/59245/ Herd mooing https://freesound.org/people/tdes/sounds/126358/ Drinking from straw https://freesound.org/people/kmyers1316/sounds/344593/ https://freesound.org/people/bassboybg/sounds/367058/
Chef Cúán Greene talks about his highs and lows in The Comfort Feed. Photograph by Shantanu Starick
Juliana and Catherine Skype call at a safe distance to try to figure out the lie of this new land we're all in. We travel back to pre-Pandemic days for an interview with chef Domini Kemp. Saro Scuto, a Sicilian living in Ireland cooks up a delicious pasta dish for our Pandemic Pantry (You can take the boy out of Sicily but you can't take ...). We have comedy by Jason Flynn with music by Ross Hannon.
Music: 'Pork Chops and Gravy' performed and recorded by Ross Hannon 'Opera Norma' by Bellini performed by Joan Sutherland and Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, 1970 found here: https://archive.org/details/BelliniNormaActISc.1NormaViene...castaDivasutherland-met1970/1-09CastaDivaCheInargenti.mp3
Sound effects from Freesound.org: Walking through cornfield https://freesound.org/people/Robinhood76/sounds/78033/ Popcorn https://freesound.org/people/thepodcastdoctor/sounds/506279/ Spray https://freesound.org/people/WeeJee_vdH/sounds/267709/ Falling in grass https://freesound.org/people/SoundsForHim/sounds/395567/