Life in Food with Laura Price

Welcome back to Life in Food with Laura Price! In this episode, we go back to basics as I talk about food and *my* life, and how being diagnosed with stage four, incurable breast cancer has affected my appetite and the way I think about food. If you'd like to read more about my recent breast cancer diagnosis, subscribe to my newsletter on Substack: https://lauraprice.substack.com/

About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. A proud Yorkshire lass at heart, she spent several years in Latin America before settling in London with her two cats. Her first novel, Single Bald Female, was inspired by her experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer at 29. A novelist by day and a food writer by night, Laura combines her two passions into this podcast, bringing out powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.

• Buy Single Bald Female.
• Visit Laura's website.
• Read Laura's newsletter, Doughnuts for Breakfast.
• Follow Laura on Instagram @laurapricewrites.
• Follow Laura on Twitter @laurapricewrite.

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This week's special bonus episode of Life in Food with Laura Price is a bit of a change from the norm because I've interviewed my very own parents, Chris and Tony Price, who are celebrating 50 years of marriage in 2022. I credit my parents for leading me to my love of food, but I've never really explored where their own love of food comes from, so I wanted to quiz them about their own parents, the foods they ate growing up and how they went from a young couple who never ate out to regular restaurant goers and world travellers. In the episode, we talk about growing up with ration books, sharing a love of Fry's Chocolate Cream bars, and the secret to a long and happy marriage.

Chris and Tony Price's restaurant recommendations:

• The Alice Hawthorne in Nun Monkton.
• The Three Acres in Huddersfield.
• The Dunkirk in Huddersfield.
• About The Berni Inn.

About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. A proud Yorkshire lass at heart, she spent several years in Latin America before settling in London with her two cats. Her first novel, Single Bald Female, was inspired by her experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer at 29. A novelist by day and a food writer by night, Laura combines her two passions into this podcast, bringing out powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.

• Buy Single Bald Female.
• Visit Laura's website.
• Follow Laura on Instagram @laurapricewrites.
• Follow Laura on Twitter @laurapricewrite.

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In the latest episode of Life in Food with Laura Price, I speak to Clover Stroud, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Red of My Blood: A Death and Life Story, where she writes about her experience of walking through the first year after her sister's death from breast cancer. In the episode, Clover speaks movingly about the horse-riding accident that left her mother severely disabled when Clover was a teenager, and how that experience changed her family life and her relationship with her sister Nell. She talks about the death of both her mother and Nell, relating it to family food memories of home-cooked lasagne, roll-mop herrings and fish chowder. Finally, we also talk about Dame Deborah James and why it's important to encourage healthy conversation around death.

About Clover Stroud:

Clover Stroud is a writer and journalist whose work features regularly in the Sunday Times, the Guardian and the Saturday and Sunday Telegraph, among others. Her first book, The Wild Other, was shortlisted for The Wainwright Prize. Her critically acclaimed second book, My Wild & Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story, was rated one of the 'best books of the year, 2020' by the Observer and the Telegraph and the Sunday Times, and was a Sunday Times bestseller. She lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and five children.

• Follow Clover on Instagram @clover.stroud.
• Follow Clover on Twitter @cloverstroud.
• Buy Clover's latest memoir The Red of my Blood.
• Read the story of Clover's sister, Nell Gifford.

About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. A proud Yorkshire lass at heart, she spent several years in Latin America before settling in London with her two cats. Her first novel, Single Bald Female, was inspired by her experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer at 29. A novelist by day and a food writer by night, Laura combines her two passions into this podcast, bringing out powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.

• Buy Single Bald Female.
• Visit Laura's website.
• Follow Laura on Instagram @laurapricewrites.
• Follow Laura on Twitter @laurapricewrite.
• Follow Laura on Facebook @LauraPriceWrites.

Life in Food is hosted, produced and edited by Laura Price.

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In the latest episode of Life in Food with Laura Price, I speak to Ana Ros, chef-owner of Hisa Franko restaurant in the beautiful Soca Valley, Slovenia. Ana was named The World’s Best Female Chef in 2017 and Hisa Franko is a regular on The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list. But beyond the accolades, Ana is a hard-working mother of two, struggling with the same issues every mother experiences. In the episode, we talk about anorexia and baby loss, encouraging her children to try new foods and experiencing guilt as a working mum.

About Ana Ros:

Ana became a chef by accident, taking over her then-husband Valter’s restaurant when her father-in-law retired. That meant turning down a job as a diplomat in Brussels, which led her own father to stop talking to her. Since then, Ana has starred in her own episode of the brilliant Chef’s Table documentary on Netflix and has won countless accolades. In 2020, she published her beautiful memoir, Sun and Rain, featuring recipes alongside moving stories on everything from losing a baby to suffering from anorexia, and overcoming family pressure to follow a different career path. 

• Follow Ana on Instagram @anaros40.
• Follow Hisa Franko on Instagram @hisafranko.
• Buy Ana's book Ana Ros: Sun and Rain.
• Visit Hisa Franko's website.

About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. A proud Yorkshire lass at heart, she spent several years in Latin America before settling in London with her two cats. Her first novel, Single Bald Female, was inspired by her experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer at 29. A novelist by day and a food writer by night, Laura combines her two passions into this podcast, bringing out powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.

• Buy Single Bald Female.
• Visit Laura's website.
• Follow Laura on Instagram @laurapricewrites.
• Follow Laura on Twitter @laurapricewrite.
• Follow Laura on Facebook @LauraPriceWrites.

Life in Food is hosted, produced and edited by Laura Price.

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In the latest episode of Life in Food with Laura Price, I speak to Sian-Meades Williams, founder of the Freelance Writing Jobs newsletter and author of the new non-fiction book The Pyjama Myth: The Freelance Writer's Survival Guide. Like me, Sian is a food-obsessed freelancer who tailors her life around meals and spends an inordinate amount of time 'peruse bouching' (that's Sian's term for menu-browsing), so we had much to discuss. In the episode, we talk about everything from figuring out what success looks like as a freelancer to banana sandwiches, original Hula Hoops and 'happy soup'. This is a worthwhile listen not just for the self-employed, but for anyone grappling with working from home or simply trying to discover what they want from life.

About Sian Meades-Williams:

Sian is an award-winning journalist and author of several books including The Pyjama Myth and The Feminist Quiz Book. She is the editor of the weekly media industry newsletter Freelance Writing Jobs, and in 2021 she launched the Freelance Writing Awards.

• Follow Sian on Instagram @sianmeadeswilliams.
• Follow Sian on Twitter @SianySianySiany.
• Buy The Pyjama Myth: The Freelance Writer's Survival Guide.
• Visit Sian's website.
• Subscribe to Sian's newsletter, Freelance Writing Jobs.
• Subscribe to Sian's newsletter, Tigers Are Better Looking.

About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. A proud Yorkshire lass at heart, she spent several years in Latin America before settling in London with her two cats. Her first novel, Single Bald Female, was inspired by her experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer at 29. A novelist by day and a food writer by night, Laura combines her two passions into this podcast, bringing out powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.

• Buy Single Bald Female.
• Visit Laura's website.
• Follow Laura on Instagram @laurapricewrites.
• Follow Laura on Twitter @laurapricewrite.
• Follow Laura on Facebook @LauraPriceWrites.

Life in Food is hosted, produced and edited by Laura Price.

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In the latest episode of Life in Food with Laura Price, I speak to Nikki May, author of the brilliant novel Wahala, a darkly comic and bitingly subversive take on love, race and family featuring three British-Nigerian girlfriends who live in London. Inspired by a meal with Nikki's own girlfriends, the book weaves food through every chapter, so I was keen to talk to her about her love of food and how it reflects her British-Nigerian identity. In the episode, we talk about the power of food in friendship, the underrepresentation of Nigerian cuisine and how Nikki plans to be an extra in the upcoming TV adaptation of her book.

About Nikki May:

Nikki was born in Bristol and raised in Lagos until the age of 20, when she dropped out of medical school and moved to London. She began a career in advertising before going on to run a successful agency, and went on to write Wahala, which is now being adapted into major TV serial by the BBC.

• Follow Nikki on Instagram @nikkimaywriter.
• Follow Nikki on Twitter @NikkiOMay.
• Buy Wahala in the UK.
• Buy Wahala in the US.
• Visit Nikki's website.

Nikki's restaurant recommendations:

• 805 Restaurants in London.
• Enish in London.
• Cambio de Tercio in London.
• Hutong in Hong Kong.
• Casamia in Bristol.

About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. A proud Yorkshire lass at heart, she spent several years in Latin America before settling in London with her two cats. Her first novel, Single Bald Female, was inspired by her experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer at 29. A novelist by day and a food writer by night, Laura combines her two passions into this podcast, bringing out powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.

• Buy Single Bald Female.
• Visit Laura's website.
• Follow Laura on Instagram @laurapricewrites.
• Follow Laura on Twitter @laurapricewrite.

Life in Food is hosted, produced and edited by Laura Price.

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In the latest episode of Life in Food with Laura Price, I speak to French chef Dominique Crenn, owner of Atelier Crenn in San Francisco. Adopted from an orphanage in France as a baby, Chef Dominique moved to San Francisco in the Eighties and became the first female chef in the US to receive the coveted three Michelin stars, for Atelier Crenn, which she named after her late father, an eminent French politician. She is an advocate and activist for LGBTQ+ and women’s rights and environmental issues. In 2019, she documented the treatment of her breast cancer for her 340k Instagram followers. She cites the love of her partner, the actor Maria Bello, for helping her to recover. In this episode, we talk about the inextricable connection between love and food, and how it powers everything she does.

About Dominique Crenn:

• Follow Chef Dominique on Instagram @dominiquecrenn.
• Visit the Atelier Crenn website.
• Read Dominique's memoir, Rebel Chef.

About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. A proud Yorkshire lass at heart, she spent several years in Latin America before settling in London with her two cats. Her first novel, Single Bald Female, was inspired by her experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer at 29. A novelist by day and a food writer by night, Laura combines her two passions into this podcast, bringing out powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.

• Buy Single Bald Female.
• Visit Laura's website.
• Follow Laura on Instagram @laurapricewrites.
• Follow Laura on Twitter @laurapricewrite.

Life in Food is hosted, produced and edited by Laura Price.

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In the latest episode of Life in Food with Laura Price, I speak to journalist Kat Brown about Food and Fertility. In 2020, after two rounds of IVF and several years trying for a baby, Kat was told she was unlikely to ever have a biological child of her own. She decided to channel her grief into No One Talks About This Stuff, a collection of essays from 15 writers on their experience of infertility, childlessness, baby loss and almost-motherhood, to be published in 2023 by Unbound. Our discussion covers everything from Kat's diagnosis of ADHD and a binge eating disorder to finding comfort in mashed potato and M&S trifle.

About Kat Brown:

• Help fund Kat's book No One Talks About This Stuff. (Use code LIFEINFOOD10 for 10% discount).
• Follow Kat on Twitter @katbrown.
• Follow Kat on Instagram @katbrownwrites.
• Visit Kat's website.

Additional links:

• Read The Last Diet by Shahroo Izadi.
• Find Maria Elia's spatchcock chicken recipe.
• Nadiya Hussain's crispy chocolate and salted peanut tart recipe.

About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. A proud Yorkshire lass at heart, she spent several years in Latin America before settling in London with her two cats. Her first novel, Single Bald Female, is inspired by her experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer at 29. A novelist by day and a food writer by night, Laura combines her two passions into this podcast, bringing out powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.

• Buy Single Bald Female.
• Visit Laura's website.
• Follow Laura on Instagram @laurapricewrites.
• Follow Laura on Twitter @laurapricewrite.

Life in Food is hosted, produced and edited by Laura Price.

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In the latest episode of Life in Food with Laura Price, I turn the tables on myself to celebrate the publication of my debut novel, Single Bald Female. My good friend and voice actor Lucia France grills me (geddit?) about Food and Healing, from the meals that helped me after my cancer treatment to why one of my first thoughts on diagnosis was 'what will I have for lunch?' We talk a lot about tea, pasta and dining in the world's best restaurants.

About Single Bald Female: Described as 'Dolly Alderton meets The Fault in Our Stars for grown-ups', Single Bald Female is the story of Jess, a young magazine journalist who has hit all the milestones for turning 30 – the career, the loving boyfriend and a cosy London flat they share with their cat. But a shock diagnosis of breast cancer turns Jess’s world upside down, and her contented life implodes with it. Frank, funny and poignant, Single Bald Female is a completely unforgettable story of love and friendship. OUT NOW!

About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. A proud Yorkshire lass at heart, she spent several years in Latin America before settling in London with her two cats. Her first novel, Single Bald Female, is inspired by her experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer at 29. A novelist by day and a food writer by night, Laura combines her two passions into this podcast, bringing out powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.

• Order Single Bald Female.
• Visit Laura's website.
• Follow Laura on Instagram @laurapricewrites.
• Follow Laura on Twitter @laurapricewrite.

About Lucia France: Lucia is a presenter and voice actor whose career has taken her all over the world. She has presented for Eurosport, ITV, Formula One Digital, various Sky channels, and many other broadcast, corporate and commercial clients. She studied English Language and Literature at King's College London before embarking on her career in the media almost 15 years ago. She is also a trained actress and Strasberg Institute alumni who has worked on a number of feature films and theatre productions. 

• Visit Lucia's website.
• Follow Lucia on Instagram @luciapicstory.

Life in Food is hosted, produced and edited by Laura Price.

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In the latest episode of Life in Food, I speak to The Fake-Up author Justin Myers about Food and Dating. For the best part of a decade, Justin was an anonymous blogger who went under the pseudonym of The Guyliner, writing about his experiences of dating. After five years writing for the Gay Times, he now has a weekly column for GQ and has written articles on everything from dick pics and dating green flags to a handy guide to whether you’re giving your partner the ick. In 2017, he outed himself as Justin Myers in order to publish his first novel, The Last Romeo, before going on to write two more novels and being dubbed 'the master of the modern romcom'. Our discussion covers everything from the best and worst foods to eat on a first date to the gentrification of working class foods and the issues with food and class.

About Justin Myers: Perhaps best known for his Guardian Blind Date reviews, Justin is a freelance journalist who writes about love, dating and other topics under the name The Guyliner. He is the author of three novels including The Last Romeo, The Magnificent Sons and The Fake-Up, and he was also a script consultant for the BBC adaptation of Adam Kay's non-fiction book This Is Going to Hurt. Justin grew up in Shipley, West Yorkshire, and now lives in London.

• Buy Justin's latest novel The Fake-Up.
• Follow Justin on Twitter @theguyliner.
• Follow Justin on Instagram @theguyliner.
• Visit Justin's website.

About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. A proud Yorkshire lass at heart, she spent several years in Latin America before settling in London with her two cats. Her first novel, Single Bald Female, is inspired by her experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer at 29. A novelist by day and a food writer by night, Laura combines her two passions into this podcast, bringing out powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.

• Pre-order Single Bald Female.
• Visit Laura's website.
• Follow Laura on Instagram @laurapricewrites.
• Follow Laura on Twitter @laurapricewrite.

Life in Food is hosted, produced and edited by Laura Price.

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