Ep6 - Ice Cream w/Tara Esperanza of T.O.I.C. - Tara's Organic Ice Cream
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art
Release Date: 07/22/2017
Ep43 - Break Me Off a Piece of that Kit Kat...Pod
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art
Gimme a break, gimme a break - break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar - it’s the food history and food art of the Kit Kat. My next episode will be followed up with a much deeper look at cacao. This episode is a bit of a departure as it’s the first time I have featured a brand. It was inspired by my dear friend Michiru and her recent gift of a pack of assorted Japanese Kit Kats and will start with original Kit Kats. From the 18th century savoury pies they share their name with, to their 100 year journey to being the most influential confectionery bar of all time. Their world domination...
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Ep42 - Music, Minerals, Mangia! with Maddalena Ghezzi
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art
With this episode I’m going straight to my interview with today’s guest - Maddalena Ghezzi. Maddalena is a musician, singer, composer, artist and improviser. She has been working in the field of jazz, improvised and experimental music since moving to the UK in 2009 and her work draws inspiration from the natural world, literature, visual arts and the socio-political status of our world. Here we chat about her new release, Emeralds, which is a collaboration with synth player, composer, producer and pianist Maria Chiara Argirò. Emeralds is the latest in her Minerals series of EP releases...
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Ep41 - OxyContin for Breakfast with Kurt Cole Eidsvig
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art
I chat with one of my dearest friends, award-winning writer and artist Kurt Cole Eidsvig. Kurt has been featured in The Boston Globe, The Improper Bostonian, NBC, CBS, and ABC and loads more prestigious places. We will talk about his new book OxyContin for Breakfast, his previous book Pop X Poetry, his visual art, inspirations and how food factors in to all of the above. We will chat about his connection to apple cider vinegar, mint jelly omelettes, analogue vampiric beef binkies, Sully's snapper dogs and more. The first minute of audio is a wee bit tinny as we get set up but it features...
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Ep40 - As Art As Vinegar
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art
Vinegar depictions range from fanciful stories relating to it, appearances in still life paintings to the different stages of its production and enjoyment. Vinegar is a symbol of preservation, of hard work and longevity and being cleansed. It’s found in religious stories, fables, stories of love, war, money and death…basically all aspects of the human experience. Featuring artworks such as the Three Vinegar Tasters, Parody of the Vinegar Tasters, Elisabetta Sirani's painting Cleopatra and the story of Cleopatra's banquet, plague doctors' masks and Four Thief Vinegar, Tête Noire vinegar,...
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Ep39 - Sour Power of Vinegar Half Hour
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art
Vinegar is a vital addition to popular dishes, condiments and beverages from around the world. It has as many uses outside of the kitchen as it does in it and is a staple ingredient of many natural or home remedies. There are countless health benefits that are associated with it and the varieties are endless - from bayberry, bamboo, black, brown and balsamic and one that is famously described as with the mother. Today it's all about the food history of vinegar - its important beginnings, fermentation, etymology, some of its many culinary and creative uses from all over the world. The next...
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Ep38 - Mushrooms Depicted in Art - Pt 4 of Mystic, Magic and Mealtime Mushrooms
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art
Some of my favourite artworks that depict mushrooms…by artists including Ming dynasty Chinese artist Qiu Yang, Chinese-Canadian artist Xiaojing Yan, Hine Mizushima, Beatrix Potter and Elsie Wakefield, Yayoi Kusama, Wangechi Mutu. The Game of Shrooms, the annual world-wide mushroom art N seek event created by Attaboy. Some mushroom magic in film and music at the end with a note on the 2019 documentary film Fantastic Fungi and mushroom music from the late Czech mushroom composer Vaclav Halek.
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Ep37 - Mushrooms - Pt 3 - Mealtimes, Mental Health and Mindfulness with Karmen Perez-Pineda of Cats with a Heart
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art
Mushroom culinary customs from around the world, mushroom tips, health benefits, Michael Pollan's book How to Change Your Mind and how Psylocibin mushrooms are being used medicinally and at some of the past and present female pioneers behind psychedelics and psychiatrics, micro-dosing. Plus a chat with Karmen Perez-Pineda the founder of Cats with a Heart about mushrooms and her amazing socially responsible initiative which aims to raise awareness and funds to end child exploitation in the fashion industry.
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Ep36 - Mushrooms - Pt 2 - Fungi Folklore
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art
Pt 2 (Ep 36) covers etymology, symbolism, folklore + culinary traditions. Pt 1 (Ep35) of a 4-part series on mushrooms gives an overview, looks at shamans + ancient human mushroom cave art.
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Ep35 - Mushrooms - Pt 1 - Shamans and Shrooms
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art
Pt 1 (Ep35) of a 4-part series on mushrooms gives an overview, looks at shamans + ancient human mushroom cave art. Pt 2 (Ep 36) covers etymology, symbolism, folklore + culinary traditions.
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Ep34 - Smy Thoughts - Racism and Racist Imagery in Food and Art
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art
I am sharing and processing some of my thoughts and experiences of racism as a woman of colour.
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0-2.30 - Episode Intro
2.30-7.30 - Ice cream, history and design
7.30-10.15 - Picasso, Axell, Burman - artists and ice cream depiction
10.15 - 57 - Tara Esperanza of T.O.I.C. interview
57-59 - episode closing comments
This week it's ice cream! Listen above to hear how, why and when ice cream became the world-wide popular dish that it is is. Everyone has their own memories and preferences relating to this frozen treat that it delicious served with fruit, cake in a cone or on its own - I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream. We'll uncover where ice cream originated and how design helped it to go from a food reserved only for the wealthy elite to a food enjoyed by people of all ages, backgrounds all over the world. We'll look at artworks that celebrate this food that is so connected to our pleasure senses. I'll be looking at the artwork of Pablo Picasso, Evelyne Axell and Chila Kumari Burman.
Tara Esperanza owner of TOIC Tara's Organic Ice Cream
artwork by Tara Esperanza
Picasso - Man with A Straw Hat and an Ice Cream, 1938
Evelyne Axell - Ice Cream, 1964
Agnes B Marshall, the Victorian culinary businesswoman aka "The Queen of Ices" (1855-1905)
Alfred L. Cralle, African American businessman and inventor of the ice cream scoop and shaper(1866-1920)
Chila Kumari Burman - Cornet and Screwballs go Vegas, mixed media, 2010
Tara Esperanza of Tara's Organic Ice Cream and I chatted about ice cream, food culture, memories, trends and the artistry of food. Tara and I go way back and her passion is such an inspiration as a friend, artist, woman and businessperson. You can find Tara’s Organic Ice Cream at their two California shops, one in Oakland and one in Berkeley. They have a loyal following owing to their ethos of organic, hand-crafted, quality and sustainability and their offering of over 173 flavours which are made with limited availability or seasonal ingredients.
Smy Goodness 6 Pepper Jelly ice cream in a brownie bowl