The Comfort Feed

Our first ever Christmas special.

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.

Teaser: 'At the table, everyone is equal' by Juliana Adelman and Catherine Cleary

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

Trees with Jim & Davi Teaser by Juliana Adelman and Catherine Cleary

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/

Ericka Lassair Teaser by Juliana Adelman and Catherine Cleary