Ep23 - A Rhubarb of a Pickle of a Jam
Smy Goodness Podcast : Food History & Food Art
Release Date: 05/21/2018
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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This episode looks at where rhubarb came from and how it traveled the world. I look at the changes from how rhubarb was first used by humans to how it is enjoyed today. We'll learn about the etymology of rhubarb, the need for albarelli drug jars and then there's the utterly interesting link between rhubarb and the Zoroastrian creation myth. I'll share why the culinary tradition of Forced Rhubarb fully deserves its PDO status. Go to SmyGoodness.com to see the artworks I was inspired by including:
Nikolai Astrup, Rubarb
Mary Fedden, Still Life with Rhubarb
Elizabeth Johnson, Elizabeth Johnson Art Glass LLC -
www.elizabethjohnson.com
I share some of the ways that I use rhubarb in my cookery and preserves, food photography and patterns.
Smy Goodness
Meringues with roasted rhubarb, rhubarb & strawberry print, jars of pickled rhubarb