15 episodes
Spirit&Spice Spirit&Spice
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- Society & Culture
Welcome to Ghillie Basan's Podcast, Spirit & Spice, an opportunity to tune into the lives and passions of authors, chefs, producers, distillers, athletes, adventurers - basically anyone with a tenuous link to food and drink!
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Mould, dynamite, dizzy fruit flies, Fat Cow and Minger with Rory Stone of Highland Fine Cheeses
Join Rory Stone, the best Cheddar maker in Tain, as he takes me around his mouldy old dairy and tells me how and why he makes such fabulous mould-ripened cheeses, some of his which could be lazy pseudonyms for members of his wife family!.
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Childhood memories, marriages and men, finding freedom in the kitchen in herself with Sumayya Usmani
A peculiar childhood on board ship, finding freedom in the kitchen with the women in her family and a penchant for young men, the Queen of Pakistani food, Sumayya Usmani, has a lot to talk about!
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Islay spirit with Billy Stitchell, Simon Coughlin, James Donaldson, and the legendary Jim McEwan
Stories of spirit, stories of characters, stories of community with Islay whisky heavyweights - Billy Stitchell (Caol Ila), Simon Coughlin (Bruichladdich), Jim McEwan (Bowmore and Bruichladdich) and James Donaldson (The Botanist)
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Fish skin bikini, bush toothbrush, gin-flavoured cheese, goose burgers and the Orkney spirit
Smoked tomato chutney, fish skins, foraging, flavoured cheese and goose hunting with Liz Ashworth, Ann Rendall, Anna Canning, Callum McInnes and Richard Shearer during the Orkney International Science Festival and Foraging Fortnight 2019.
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Whisky tasting and whisky tales at Scapa Distillery with Alan Winchester and Mick Swanney
Whisky tasting and whisky tales at Scapa with Alan Winchester, former Master Distiller of The Glenlivet, and Mick Swanney who makes the fruity spirit.
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Neolithic grains and Strictly Come Dancing with Liz Ashworth at the Barony Mill, Orkney
Neolithic grain and Orkney bannocks with Liz Ashworth, the author of The Book of Bere, at the magical Barony Mill. With thanks to Ellen Hay, Margaret Phillips, Issy Grieve, Karen Budge, the Orkney Science Festival and Foraging Fortnight.