Flavour

Matt Bentman, Alan Alder and Sue Bailey get November tips from the foraging chef, including using fig leaves for pannacottas and custards. Also, the 50 year-old family cheese business that is to befound on Cambridge Market and a review of Caroline Eden's new Central Asian travel and cookery book

We find out from Parker's Tavern and Vanderlyle what it's like when you realise that one of the diners in your restaurant is Jay Rayner or Marina O'Loughlin. There are 409 Masters of Wine in the world, and one of them is Will Lowe from the Cambridge Gin Distillery, we ask him how he did it. And The Oyster Lab is doing pop up oyster events in Cambridge, we pop along. We also find out how closing at 10pm is affecting local pubs. Presented by Matt Bentman and Alan Alder and Sue Bailey.

We look at how the pandemic has hit a young catering business, the Modern Table, and a more established business, Puddini. In its 100 Years, Fitzbillies has enriched the life of the city and we get a brief history from its owners Alison Wright and Tim Hayward. We visit The Little Loaf Bakery in Histon and also hear from Cambridge Exotics which is bringing more unusual fruits to the city. And Steve Thompson goes October foraging. Presented by Matt Bentman and Alan Alder and Sue Bailey.

Vanderlyle’s Lawrence Butler discusses their approach to takeaway meals. The Cambridge Cheese Company serve up a tasting session of British cheeses in this first week of Love British Food Fortnight. Dave Fox from Trumpington Allotments looks back at the 2020 growing season, solutions to drought conditions and ideas for getting your plot ready for next year, and we take a trip to CoFarm Cambridge; the city’s first Community Farm, yielding a healthy crop of fresh veg for the local food banks this year.

Today's show features: fascinating advice on mushroom foraging from Steve Thompson, the foraging chef; Rosie Sykes' new cookery book; Olives from Cambridge market; and Cambridge's Grape Britannia beats Waitrose in the highly prestigious Decanter Awards. Plus lots of local food and drink news. Flavour is presented by Matt Bentman, Alan Alder and Sue Bailey.

In this show the team look at three new cookbooks, including one from Tim Hayward, and we visit Cambridge market and find out what makes bagels so distinctive, and whether or not you can taste the difference between a South American and an African coffee. Plus there are still a lot of students and staff living at Cambridge University; how are they being fed? We visit St John's College.

Presented by Matt Bentman, Alan Alder and Sue Bailey.

Dan joins Tim for a live session ahead of the release of his new single Pick Me Up. There’s brand new music in the first half hour from Stretch Soul Gang, Lauren Alex Hooper, Soy and Sleemo and the latest Unsigned Chart.

Note, technical issues prevent the interview from being included in this podcast.

We speak with Cambridge restaurateurs about how well the Eat Out to Help Out Scheme is working, and to Giles Yeo from Cambridge University about the government's anti-obesity strategy. We go August foraging and, as it's national allotment week, we discuss our appreciation of allotments. And we hear from Felicity Cloake about her book, One More Croissant for the Road. Presented by Matt Bentman, Alan Alder and Sue Bailey.

We meet the Copper Crew, who have received the attention of Master of Wine, Jancis Robinson, for their canned wines from Cottenham. VetoMeato tells us about its meat-free eats. There's a new book about the orchards of the East of England, and we speak to co-author Tom Wiliamson, about those in Cambridgeshire. And we pop along to the community pub, The Hare and Hounds in Harlton, which has reopened. Presented by Matt Bentman, Alan Alder and Sue Bailey.

Mark Poynton talks about his plans for his new restaurant with rooms and the sort of food he'll be cooking. We hear from the food traders on Cambridge market about how they've survived lockdown and what life on the market is like now. Monica Askay talks about the research that's been done on the orchards of eastern England and we have a report from the 2020 Oxford Food Symposium. In addition, we visit the Cory Library, an ancient library in the Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Presented by Matt Bentman, Alan Alder and Sue Bailey.