Let Them Eat Books
Let Them Eat Books is a podcast hosted by Claire Reynolds and Colin Herd about all the food you have and haven’t tried in all the books you have and haven’t read. Leaving jammy fingerprints on book jackets, reading every last word on the back of packets, we combine the two things that make us who we are: a shared passion for the culinary and the literary! We also visit food and book locations around Scotland and further afield.
Episodes
Claire and Colin are joined at The Last Bookstore in Glasgow by Sumayya Usmani, author of Summers Under the Tamarind Tree: Recipes & Memories From Pakistan, Mountain Berries and Desert Spice: Sweet Inspiration From the Hunza Valley to the Arabian Sea and Andaza, a food memoir. They discuss writing, food and memory.
It's Oranges and Oranges as Claire and Colin up their Hispter Credentials by tasting Orange Wines - Kisi Kikhvi Anapea, Georgia, and Arneis Origins Jauma, Australia, from Sylvan in Glasgow's Woodlands Road, as well as Claire's homemade Vin D'Orange (the traditional Provencal drink). Writers discussed in the episode include Janelle Tan, Sally Rooney, D.S. Waldman and the legendary French singer Francoise Hardy.
Claire and Colin eat and discuss one of the world's greatest breads... Focaccia from Liguria, featuring texts by Virgil, Dante Alighieri, Laura Accerboni and Kat Dixon. They also eat focaccia from Twelve Triangles in Portobello, Gloriosa in Glasgow's Finnieston and Focaccia in Glasgow's West End.
Colin and Claire visit Brasserie Prince in Edinburgh to eat the French delicacy of Escargot. They also get to grips with global snail-eating culture, and discuss texts by Langston Hughes, William Soutar, Thom Gunn, Selima Hill and Patricia Highsmith!
How do you like them apples? Colin and Claire meet artist and writer Annie Lord in Portobello to discuss The Neighbouring Orchard, a dispersed orchard formed of 200 apple trees and grown by more than 170 people, spread across North East Edinburgh and Musselburgh, found everywhere from front gardens to children’s play parks.
Hot Diggidy! Colin and Claire chow down on Hot Dogs at Thundercat in Glasgow’s Miller Street and discuss all things Hot and Doggy including poems by Frank O’Hara and Grace Cavalieri and Jamie Loftus’ book Raw Dog.
In our 50th episode, and to celebrate "Quiche and Salad Season", Claire and Colin picnic on one of their all time favourite foods: quiche. Featuring discussion of works by Zadie Smith, Toni Cade Bambara and even the band Getdown Services. They also taste test two quiches from Cottonrake Bakery in Glasgow!
Curl up with Let Them Eat Books' nutty hosts Colin and Claire as they explore all things cashew! This episode features poems by Severo Sarduy, Francis de Lima, Ranudi Gunawardena, a non-fiction essay by Kopal Agarwal, and talks about such cashew treats as Hawkshead Whisky Smoked Cashews, Feed the Squirrel Cashew Cookie Dough Butter and Glasgow's Ceylon Tea Bar's Kaju Mulawa.
Claire and Colin discuss Black Pudding, as it's known in the UK, and many of its variations around the world, including reference to poets and authors including Bill Buford, Eileen P Keane and Luis de Góngora.
Claire and Colin whisk you away to a world of Vegan Baking this week as they feature poems by Amy Gerstler, Sappho translated by Anne Carson and celebrate the launch of Colin's new collection Aquafaba out now from Spite Press.
Kathleen Jamie and Liz Lochhead are the poets whose work we discuss in this episode of Let Them Eat Books, host by Claire and Colin, well oiled by The Water of Life!
Claire and Colin’s Let Them Eat Books trawler lands a bumper catch including W.N. Herbert reading a brand new poem, and featuring discussion of Elizabeth Campbell, Norman Buick, George Mackay Brown and Francis Buchanan of Perth.
Just popping in to the studio for our Popcorn Episode! Colin and Claire offer up a snack size treat focusing on the poem Popcorn by Lucy Heuschen.
Sweeter than sweet as always, Claire and Colin talk about Marmalade, with reference to poems by Dorothea Grossman and Roddy Lumsden and the Antarctic Expedition diary by William Gordon Murdoch.
Colin and Claire relive recent and not so recent road trips through the lens of car snacks. They discuss writing by Zain Rishi, Jayne Cortez Bertolt Brecht and Claire Reynolds.
It’s our birthdays and we’ll podcast if we want to!!! Colin and Claire celebrate Birthday Cake with featured poems by Meg Bateman, Bill Berkson, Eunice De Sousa and Karólína Rós Ólafsdóttir, as well as A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. At the end of the show, Colin shares a poem - Birthday Kale - from his new collection Aquafaba!
Colin and Claire wake up and smell the coffee discussing a poem by Ron Padgett and the novels Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi and Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad.
Claire Reynolds and Colin Herd talk about the multi-layered and surprisingly dramatic history of the croissant, and discuss writing by Camilla Grudova, Natascha Ewert and Eva Baltazar.
A couple of nerds (Colin and Claire) discuss meatballs through texts by Selima Hill, Roberto Bolaño, Ty Raso and Chris Newens. Thinking about meatballs from world cuisine including Koofteh Tabrisi, Kofta, Polpette, Frikadeller and Palotte. We also go to Eusebi’s deli in Glasgow’s west end to check out their Polpette!
Soupy, indulgent and altogether warming as always, Claire and Colin talk all things Risotto in this latest episode, including discussion of Anne Enright's novel The Green Road, Frances Mayes' Under the Tuscan Sun and Anna Ansari's Silk Roads.
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