Lecker

By Lucy Dearlove

An award-winning podcast documenting cooking, eating and domestic life. Often recorded in kitchens.

lecker (German): delicious {adj} [food], tasty {adj}, mouth-watering {adj}

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How many episodes does Lecker have?

The podcast currently has 110 episodes available.

Lecker episodes:

July 03, 2026 The Rich Text of the Ideal Home Show
A visit to the Ideal Home Show, with author Eli Davies.
Eli's book The Spinster Cookbook: Culture, Politics and Pleasure in the Single Woman's Kitchen is out now! [aff link]
Find Eli online:
Instagram: @elidaviesss
Substack: elidavies.substack.com
Related episodes:
Trophy Cabinets (Kitchens episode 1) [LINK]
Moving House, Moving Kitchen [LINK]
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Lecker is a podcast about how food shapes our lives. Recorded mostly in kitchens, each episode explores personal stories to examine our relationships with food – and each other.
Looking for something else to read? Find all of the Lecker Book Club reads on my Bookshop.org list. [aff link]
Support Lecker:
Patreon: patreon.com/leckerpodcast
Substack: leckerpodcast.substack.com
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/lecker/id1158028729

Merch: leckerpodcast.com/merch

Listen everywhere: leckerpodcast.com
Instagram: @leckerpodcast

Full transcript available at leckerpodcast.com

Music by Blue Dot Sessions

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February 27, 2026 From Pronk to Peanut Butter
How still life reflects - and defines - the food of an era, featuring artist Ben McDonald and author Katie Goh.
Find Ben online:
Instagram: @ben___mc
Ko-Fi store: ko-fi.com/benmc/shop
Find Katie online:
Instagram: @katie_goh_
Website: katiegoh.co.uk
You can find a list of books referenced and artworks mentioned at leckerpodcast.com
Related episodes:
A Personal History of the Orange with Katie Goh [LINK]
Oranges and Lemons [LINK]
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Lecker is a podcast about how food shapes our lives. Recorded mostly in kitchens, each episode explores personal stories to examine our relationships with food – and each other.
Looking for something to read? Find all of the Lecker Book Club reads on my Bookshop.org list. [aff link]
Support Lecker:
Patreon: patreon.com/leckerpodcast
Substack: leckerpodcast.substack.com
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/lecker/id1158028729

Merch: leckerpodcast.com/merch

Listen everywhere: leckerpodcast.com
Instagram: @leckerpodcast

Full transcript available at leckerpodcast.com

Music by Blue Dot Sessions

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January 23, 2026 At My Mother's (Tiny) Table
Sculptor and miniaturist Alice Hewitt explains the secrets of her tiny kitchen tables.
There's also a lo-fi video version of this episode with images of the tables discussed on YouTube. You can also buy the book from the exhibition, with images of each table and their accompanying texts HERE.
Find Alice online:
Instagram: @alicemakesathing
TikTok: @alicemakesathing
YouTube: @alicemakesathing
Website: alicemakesathing.co.uk
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Lecker is a podcast about how food shapes our lives. Recorded mostly in kitchens, each episode explores personal stories to examine our relationships with food – and each other.
Looking for something to read? Find all of the Lecker Book Club reads on my Bookshop.org list. [aff link]
Support Lecker:
Patreon: patreon.com/leckerpodcast
Substack: leckerpodcast.substack.com
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/lecker/id1158028729
Merch: leckerpodcast.com/merch
Listen everywhere: leckerpodcast.com
Instagram: @leckerpodcast
Full transcript available at leckerpodcast.com
Music by Blue Dot Sessions
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November 21, 2025 Recipes from Beyond the Grave with Rosie Grant
Have you ever thought about what you might put on your gravestone? A quote, a poem....a recipe? Rosie Grant, the world's leading expert on gravestone recipes, explains all.

About Rosie Grant:
Rosie Grant is a writer, researcher, and archivist whose work explores the intersections of archives, folklore, and family storytelling. She is the creator of @GhostlyArchive, where her exploration of gravestone recipes and the histories behind them has reached hundreds of thousands of followers across social media. TO DIE FOR: A Cookbook of Gravestone Recipes is her first book.

Find her:
Instagram: @ghostly.archive
TikTok: @ghostlyarchive

Find all of the Lecker Book Club reads on my Bookshop.org list. [aff link]

Further Listening:
Sunday Roast Rites: on death and cooking
Moots: on the food related traditions of Hop-tu-Naa, the Manx celebration of Samhain

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Lecker is a podcast about how food shapes our lives. Recorded mostly in kitchens, each episode explores personal stories to examine our relationships with food – and each other.

Support Lecker:
Patreon: patreon.com/leckerpodcast
Substack: leckerpodcast.substack.com
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/lecker/id1158028729

Merch: leckerpodcast.com/merch

Listen everywhere: leckerpodcast.com
Instagram: @leckerpodcast

Full transcript available at leckerpodcast.com

Lecker is part of Heritage Radio Network - heritageradionetwork.org

Music by Blue Dot Sessions
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October 31, 2025 300 Meat Pies and a Michelin Star with Joké Bakare
Joké Bakare on Nigerian Food, Michelin Stars and West African Hospitality

Chef Joké Bakare joins Lecker for a live recording at the Festival of Encounters in Brixton - the same neighbourhood where she first emerged from the tube in 1999 to encounter the bright lights of Brixton. From selling 300-400 meat pies every Sunday outside her church to becoming the first Black female Michelin-starred chef in the UK, Joké's journey is one of persistence, community, and staying true to the food she grew up with.

We talk about growing up in a multi-ethnic Nigerian household where food was a celebration of Yoruba and Igbo cultures, the specific ripeness of plantain that matters more than most people realise, and why she refuses to call her cooking "elevated."

Many thanks to Van Gogh House for including Lecker in the 2025 Festival of Encounters programme! Special thanks to Anna Bromwich and Elysia Krishnadasan Torrens for all their work putting it together. And thanks to everyone who came to the event.

About Joké Bakare: Joké Bakare is a Nigerian chef and founder of Chishuru Restaurant in Fitzrovia, London. She started her business with a food van outside her church in Southeast London, won a competition for a popup residency in Brixton Village, and in 2024 became the first Black female Michelin-starred chef in the UK.

Find her: Instagram @jokebakare / @chishuru / chishuru.com

Related Lecker episodes:
Permission to Write with Melissa Thompson - on navigating a violent colonial legacy in the food of your heritage
Matooke Goes With Everything - on the significance and specificity of sourcing ingredients

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Lecker is a podcast about how food shapes our lives. Recorded mostly in kitchens, each episode explores personal stories to examine our relationships with food – and each other.

Support Lecker:
Patreon: patreon.com/leckerpodcast
Substack: leckerpodcast.substack.com
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/lecker/id1158028729

Merch: leckerpodcast.com/merch

Listen everywhere: leckerpodcast.com
Instagram: @leckerpodcast

Full transcript available at leckerpodcast.com

Lecker is part of Heritage Radio Network - heritageradionetwork.org

Music by Blue Dot Sessions
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56min
October 17, 2025Silk Roads with Anna Ansari: Tracing Food, Migration and Identity Across Asia
Anna Ansari on Silk Roads: Tracing Food, Migration and Identity Across Asia

Iranian-American writer Anna Ansari joins Lecker to discuss her debut cookbook Silk Roads: A Flavour Odyssey with recipes from Baku to Beijing. Cooking Risotto alla Bukhara in her East London kitchen, we explore how ingredients, people, and culinary traditions have moved along ancient trade routes - and how Anna's own journey from suburban Detroit to China to Scotland connects to these stories of migration and belonging.

We cover:
The movement of ingredients across the Silk Roads (melons from Uzbekistan, spinach from Iran, apples from Kazakhstan)
How Anna's Turkic heritage connects to Central Asian and Chinese cuisines
Experiencing Uyghur food in Beijing as a teenager and recognising familiar flavours
Adapting traditional recipes like bakhash into dishes recognisable in different contexts
The immigrant experience: giving up a legal career to move countries and start over
Cooking rice as a constant across homes and continents
Authenticity, authority, and whose food stories get told

About Anna Ansari:
Anna Ansari is an Iranian-American writer with a background in Asian Studies. A former trade attorney, she now writes at the intersection of food, family and history. Her debut book Silk Roads: A Flavour Odyssey is out now.

Find her: Substack - Where in the World is Anna Ansari? / Instagram @thisplacetastesdelicious

Find all of the Lecker Book Club reads on my Bookshop.org list. [aff link]

Further Listening:
What is a National Dish? with Anya von Bremzen
Gastro-Spirituality with Jenny Lau

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Lecker is a podcast about how food shapes our lives. Recorded mostly in kitchens, each episode explores personal stories to examine our relationships with food – and each other.

Support Lecker:
Patreon: patreon.com/leckerpodcast
Substack: leckerpodcast.substack.com
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/lecker/id1158028729

Merch: leckerpodcast.com/merch

Listen everywhere: leckerpodcast.com
Instagram: @leckerpodcast

Full transcript available at leckerpodcast.com

Lecker is part of Heritage Radio Network - heritageradionetwork.org

Music by Blue Dot Sessions
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51min
September 10, 2025 Digesting the Internet with Ruby Tandoh
On this month's Lecker Book Club – a regular interview series with authors writing in or adjacent to food culture – All Consuming by Ruby Tandoh.

Ruby’s new book, All Consuming, is really a natural progression in her work: taking the unique position she occupies as both a professional cook and baker but also something of a commentator and observer in order to deeply and thoroughly investigate the culinary landscape we find ourselves in. From Dubai chocolate to Nara Smith, there's no-one else I would rather read on decoding and digesting contemporary food culture.

Lecker is now part of Heritage Radio Network! Find out more about this independent podcast network dedicated to food, beverages and the culinary world and discover their many fantastic shows at heritageradionetwork.org.

You can find a transcript for this episode at leckerpodcast.com.

All Consuming is out now. Find all of the Lecker Book Club reads on my Bookshop.org list. [aff link]

Support Lecker by becoming a paid subscriber on Patreon, Apple Podcasts and now on Substack.

Music is by Blue Dot Sessions.

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August 27, 2025 S9 Ep6: A Bigger Table (Kitchens Revisited)
This month Lecker is re-releasing some older episodes: here’s Kitchens, a six part series from 2021 about the most important room in the home.

How can the practice of eating together secure a sustainable future for our kitchens?

In the final episode of the series, Joanne MacInnes and Betul Piyade from the community centre West London Welcome describe what it's like for refugees and asylum seekers to live indefinitely in hotel rooms without kitchens. And academic and "food crisis responder" Marsha Smith explains why social eating is so important for us as a society, and explains how it's the key to future proofing our eating habits.

Lecker is written and produced by Lucy Dearlove

Thanks to my contributors on this episode Betul Piyade and Joanne MacInnes at West London Welcome, and Marsha Smith.

West London Welcome is an amazing place. You can donate to support their work via LocalGiving here.

The transcript of the episode is here.

Buy the Kitchens print zine featuring original essays and illustrations!

Original music was composed for the series by Jeremy Warmsley, with additional music by Blue Dot Sessions

Research and production assistance from Nadia Mehdi.

Editorial feedback by Rory Dearlove

Cover collage by Stephanie Hartman

Support Lecker by becoming a paid subscriber on Patreon, Apple Podcasts and now on Substack.

Find Lecker on instagram.
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August 25, 2025 S9 Ep5: The Hearth of the Home (Kitchens Revisited)
This month Lecker is re-releasing some older episodes: here’s Kitchens, a six part series from 2021 about the most important room in the home.

Does it matter what fuels our fire in the kitchen? Javon Bennett explains how his family adapted their cooking when they moved from Jamaica to England, and Carwyn Graves explores open fire cooking and other Welsh kitchen traditions.

A full transcript is available on the Lecker website.

Lecker is written and produced by Lucy Dearlove

Thanks to the contributors on this episode, Javon Bennett and Carwyn Graves.

And also thanks to Naomi Oppenheim who put me in touch with Javon via the British Library Caribbean Foodways project and also to my friend and previous Lecker guest Sian Stacey for telling me about Carwyn’s work.

Buy the Kitchens print zine featuring original essays and illustrations!

Original music was composed for the series by Jeremy Warmsley, with additional music by Blue Dot Sessions

Research and production assistance from Nadia Mehdi.

Extractor fan recording by Victoria Ferran

Cover collage by Stephanie Hartman

Support Lecker by becoming a paid subscriber on Patreon, Apple Podcasts and now on Substack.
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43min
August 25, 2025 S9 Ep4: Flat Pack (Kitchens Revisited)
This month Lecker is re-releasing some older episodes: here’s Kitchens, a six part series from 2021 about the most important room in the home.

Prefabs – built to help counter the post war housing shortage - were actually some of the earliest examples of fitted kitchens in the UK, and came with built-in fridges at a time when this technology was unaffordable to most people. Jennie Thomas reflects on growing up in a post war prefab in Hackney, and Alice Wilson, whose academic work examines tiny houses, reflects on the movement as a reaction to the housing situation in contemporary Britain.

Lecker is written and produced by Lucy Dearlove.

Thanks to the contributors on this episode, Jennie Thomas and Alice Wilson. Find out more about the OpHouse project.

A full transcript is available on the Lecker website.
Buy the Kitchens print zine featuring original essays and illustrations!

Original music was composed for the series by Jeremy Warmsley, with additional music also by Jeremy, and by Blue Dot Sessions

Research and production assistance from Nadia Mehdi.

Additional guest research by Sarah Woolley.

Cover collage by Stephanie Hartman

Support Lecker by becoming a paid subscriber on Patreon, Apple Podcasts and now on Substack.
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How many episodes does Lecker have?

The podcast currently has 110 episodes available.

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