On this week’s episode of the Scottish Food History Podcast, Dr Lindsay Middleton and I jump into the life of Cate Cranston. Arguably the inventor of the modern tea room, a visionary and undeniable patron of the Glasgow Style, Cate is one of those characters that you won’t believe you never learned about in school.

We are joined by Oliver Baird from Mackintosh at the Willow who gives us the inside scoop on Cate’s legacy, the uncomfortable questions we need to ask and what he’d want to ask Cate over a cup of tea.